is this really what you all want? No accountability? Do you really want it to be set up where our presidents will not be answerable to the Press? That our presidents making videos is good enough? or tweeting is all that's needed? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FRICKING MINDS?
I agree, it's not good.
But the press has played a role in this, too.
Now all bets are off, and they're partially to blame for what follows.
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But HOW did they play a roll in it?
See, to me, the press does have a hand in it,
but NOT because of anything they did as far as lying or fake news, because I don't know of one instance the main stream truly lied and did that.....
it was more of what the Press DID NOT DO....their job of vetting the candidates fully, they were so caught up in Donald's 'performance' when on stage, they never bothered to look behind the curtain and make up, and inform the voters of what's important....
sure, they seemed to investigate the women harmed or scorned, but simply for titillation or ratings perhaps....
but his tax returns and business relationships and duties of a president if not in law but to the American people to be open and have no conflicts of interest and so so much that the voters should have had at their hands to make an informed decision....
And the coverage of true policies, they never truly held Donald or Hillary on their stances and plans to correct the problems.....
Everything was such a low level Dog and Pony show covered by the press....my Lord! We are talking about our candidates to choose from, interviewing and vying for.... the MOST IMPORTANT job in the entire world, not just our Nation!
and how little they covered the Russians hacking....the focus on reading someones private diary was more important than the gosh darn Russians for goodness sake, hacking in to our institutions like the Democratic National Party in order to affect an election....
And yes, I can understand that a partisan view of what was in the private diary was more important than the illegal way it was obtained...according to them, but they are WRONG!
Wrong, because it was one sided...not 3 sided, with the 3 candidates still in the race....if we had gotten all of Bernie Campaign private emails and all of the RNC private emails and all of Preibus's private emails or all of the Trump campaign private emails....and had a comparison, it would have had true meaning...
And had been able to see all of the things said and inner workings of those campaign' and parties as well, THEN AND ONLY THEN, would the content of the hacked emails, had truly mattered more than the CRIME that took place by a Foreign Nation, purposely to affect our election in the MANNER THEY WANTED.
And for goodness sake again, if the Hillary camp had all of those Russian connections and russian loving campaign managers getting paid $12 million by them for some supposed work done, and staffers and advisors, wouldn't that have been the story of the week and month and election?
Instead we had infinite hours of ludicrous coverage beginning with the size of a man's hands compared to his weiner and how the weiner is still functioning, and Miss Piggy, Access Hollywood Tape, and weather Hillary was 'dying' or not, and emails email wikileaks and server server, Comey Comey...but no coverage on actual POLICIES, and the whys of their policies and the hows of their policies and the costs of the policies, and the long term affects of their policies?
And shouldn't the press had covered any of Trump's conflicts of interests if President?
They covered the Clinton campaign and Bill clinton and the Clinton foundation conflicts and they having to give up the foundation and all of that if she became President...
BUT NOT with Trump? COME ON??????????? That was a huge miss and information we all could have used and made him commit to before he took the position...
they could have informed us with the laws that do and don't apply to Presidents, what laws in the constitution cover areas of it... you know, true documentaries on it as well...
And the movement of the people...that was missed and not covered well at all...just focus on racist is what they did, which was an element of it...but NOT "IT"
Right now, I am looking back on the media coverage and as mentioned, the LACK THERE OF, in disgust.