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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Well, sure: The New York Times, The Washington Post, smaller newspapers with real investigating zeal, VICE (which is technically Canadian  ). Forget I incorrectly said "the media"; what I meant was MOTHERFUCKING TV NEWS, still the main news source for most Unitedstatesians (it is a word, Americans), although quickly following printed media's dodo-path as more and more mooks choose Fakebook or just get their shit information from their shit neighbor.
I think one of the best things that could have happened to TV newscasts (and us) was the fact that the BannonTrump hydra declared war on 'em on day one; had Drumpf been shrewd and tried to cosy up to them, they would have fallen for it big time because they're SUCKERS, as proven by the lovely  reception to his speech before Congress (a short-lived good reception, but that's Trump's own fault again). Instead, the attack made them react in a more-or-less combative way like I'd never seen from these jokers... but it's still not near enough. Pretty boy Anderson Cooper mildly questions Jeffrey Lord's nightly lies. I know Cooper's show and Bill Maher's are not in the same realm, but Maher recently interviewed Lord on Real Time and in the middle of it told him, "Sir, everyone in Washington says you're a nice guy, but DON'T BULLSHIT ME". [Cue the flameposts from the Bill Maher haters on this board.  ] So the real revelations —if they continue, fingers crossed— will keep reaching us through journalists like Glenn Greenwald. Can you imagine a serious whistleblower contacting Wolf fucking Blitzer to make a story public? |
Hey, I saw that episode of Maher!
I have mixed feelings about him. Truly mixed. He's funnier than he'll about ½ the time, the other ½ he comes off as crass for the fuck of it, like an intellectual ladder rung or two above Howard Stern.
His questioning of Lord was satisfying, but talking to the guy that way just wasn't necessary to get his point across. He could have said anything other than "Don't bullshit me" (like, "Answer me honestly") and it would have had less of an echo chamber effect, for instance; rampant cheers from the Magee crowd, but he's not really accomplishing anything because he's playing for the folks who already watch and enjoy Bill Maher, so.. fuckit!)
Also his whole stance on religion frustrates the fuck out of me. He's one of the main reasons I'm agnostic, and think bad thoughts when I hear the word "atheist." He's just as convinced of his own nonfalsifiable belief in that things don't exist as Christians are in their certainty that the very same things do. And his entire bullying way of shitting on people for their beliefs is only a few steps away from its own form of religious extremism.
But he's fucking hilarious, so I can't stay mad at him.
However... back to the whole "print media" thing...
actually I have to save that for later because I'm busy working in print media right now. Anyway, the long and short of it is, I'm probably going to take some level of umbrage if you disparage journalists, specifically print journalists. There are thousands of kickass newspapers out there that do their damndest every single day, and yeah, a lot of the more major outlets have resorted to more editorializing than I think is proper, and have shied from straight up objective fact reporting in favor of writing twenty new columns every goddamn day.
But. Whatever.