We have some very interesting data coming out that basically shows how media is mishandling this. For perspective: It'll take this group what..another 20-30 days to get to the border. Other than a prez election, what impending issue gets this much coverage this far out?
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This feels like 2014 and the way the media dealt with ebola coverage all over again. It was THE major media story leading up to the midterms. Then bloop! Disappeared. I bet media doesn't talk about Caravan after midterms either.pic.twitter.com/tibTfemo9D
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I'm not saying that I don't care about this or that this humanitarian issue doesn't warrant attention. But, from where I sit, newsrooms still haven't learned needed lessons on how to cover Trump and right-wing bullshit generally.
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I'm a debater. That's my background. What I know from debate is whoever controls ground of debate pretty much wins. Even if you win argument and win on technical grounds, if you're debating on other person's ground, majority of times judges will designate other person the winner.
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And here we have, yet another instance during a critical time period, where the news media is handing the grounds of the debate over to Trump/right-wing who are seizing that ground with bad faith gestures. The media is just handing him the grounds though on a platter.
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And worse! Many are actually on their high horse ('Oh but I'm debunking!') and refuse to even consider the implication and effect their agenda setting power can have on this moment in time.
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Read an excellent article in
@voxdotcom on how the right keeps seizing the narrative, and cornering MSM onto a guilt trip that their issues aren't being covered, meanwhile using Fox, Sinclair and most of talk radio to broadcast what boils down to right wing propaganda.
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will this still be your top story after the mid-terms Brian? are you not even remotely aware of how your network falls right into the hands of propaganda?
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I thought you were supposed to be a media critic, Brian.
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Nope-- I'm very specifically not a critic. I'm a correspondent and anchor.
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I see. So just kind of a neutral arbiter then? Gotta present all sides? Racism vs. not racism, what's better? Let's debate!
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With all due respect, have you ever watched my TV program? Your reply strongly suggests that you have not. So this is not a worthwhile conversation.
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Way to Haberman it
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Come on, Y'all are talking over his head. He never sees how biased he is on topics like these.
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Seems like there’s something between not covering it at all and giving it roadblocked coverage for the last several days when absolutely nothing has changed - including all the networks leading with it.
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Proportionality is key... but I think things HAVE changed each day, both on the ground and in the political responses. I'd love to discuss this further on TV.
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Or, here's a thought, DON'T treat Trump's fear-mongering racist ploy to create a fake crisis as news. That is literally how we got here.
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i feel CNN lately is calling out the deception and fear-mongering by the President, unlike years past.
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Yes. Credit due. They have been doing some of that. They are also giving this story saturation coverage as if it's the moon landing which is ludicrous and plays right into Trump's racist plan.
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i agree, especially since these migrants are not even close to the US border and the fact that many of them won't even make it to the border, let alone INSIDE the US.
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