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    Default "journalism" reverts to a groggy, semi-slumber where “official word” is gospel

    When a Democrat is in the White House, journalists spend more time sucking up to the administration than doing anything that could even loosely be defined as reporting. It’s embarrassing to watch.
    It was only a matter of time before the media reverted to the lazy, drooling, throne-sniffing sycophants they were from 2009 to 2017.
    And they’re back, already, still wearing their ready-to-be-clutched pearls should President Trump say anything in the next two months, but the storage space for their fainting couches has already been rented and shelf space is being cleared for “fluffer” awards they will give each other for their “reporting” in the coming years.

    You’d think grown adults would be ashamed to so bastardize their professions and prostitute themselves before the entire world, but you’d be wrong. It’s, apparently, what they live for.
    Knowing quite a few of them, I can assure you that these failings of character extend into their personal lives as well, so at least they’re consistent.

    Gone are the tough questions – hell, gone are the serious questions. Joe Biden has not been asked one substantive question since early this year. His limited, screened and scripted press availability have included nothing of relevance to anyone who works outside of a liberal newsroom.

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    Remember press conferences under Barack Obama? He’d come out, read a 15-minute statement, then take 5-7 questions, in order, from a staff-provided list of reporters, delivering a long-winded, vapid answer that barely, if ever, addressed the limited substance of the question. There were no follow-ups, there was no interruption or challenge to a single assertion. Everyone in the room understood their place, their role, and they gleefully played it. And the post-conference analysis contained all the hallmarks of a refractory period, only missing the cigarette.

    The big Joe Biden story right now is – wait for it – that he and his wife will not only be bringing their dogs to the White House, but they’re getting a cat too. I hope whoever broke this blockbuster story has room on their shelves for a Pulitzer, but likely a Nobel Prize too. There is no reporting category for the Nobels, but Obama proved that accomplishments relevant to a category are irrelevant when it comes to awarding them.

    Maybe Jill Biden will win a Nobel for medicine? Leftists insist on calling her “doctor Jill,” after all, and because of that, Whoopi Goldberg declared “she’s a hell of a doctor,” while publicly wishing she’d become US Surgeon General. Of course, if someone you loved had a medical emergency, the last person you’d want to turn to for help is Jill Biden, who has a Ph.D. in education, not medicine, and just goes by “Dr. Jill” because she shares the same level of insecurity as her husband and a compliant press plays along.

    But the Pulitzer, the Murrow, the Cronkite, and whatever other awards journalists give themselves for investigative reporting, and there are a lot (as I wrote in my book, journalism is the only industry that gives itself more awards than Hollywood), has to be reserved for the Daily Beast.

    “Joe Biden’s Dogs Have Told This Pet Psychic a Lot About Their Beloved Master, and His Future,” a headline written by a well-paid adult human being read on a recent story by someone with the title “senior editor and writer.” My 3-year-old daughter would be embarrassed to have her name attached to something like that, yet there it was, in all its glory on Friday.
    he tweet on the story, also written by an adult human, read, “Pet psychic Beth Lee-Crowther says Joe Biden’s dogs, Major and Champ, told her they are excited to live in the White House. They also say their master will be ‘a great president.’”

    I’m embarrassed for them.

    This is the level of journalism we can expect in the next 4 years. Every once in a while, some member of the media will grouse about the lack of substance from the press, but nothing will be done about it. Journalism, after 4 years of blinding rage and repeating anonymous, unverifiable claims as if they were decreed by a burning bush carving them into stone tablets, will revert to a groggy, semi-slumber where “official word” will be taken as gospel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    When a Democrat is in the White House, journalists spend more time sucking up to the administration than doing anything that could even loosely be defined as reporting. It’s embarrassing to watch.
    It was only a matter of time before the media reverted to the lazy, drooling, throne-sniffing sycophants they were from 2009 to 2017.
    And they’re back, already, still wearing their ready-to-be-clutched pearls should President Trump say anything in the next two months, but the storage space for their fainting couches has already been rented and shelf space is being cleared for “fluffer” awards they will give each other for their “reporting” in the coming years.

    You’d think grown adults would be ashamed to so bastardize their professions and prostitute themselves before the entire world, but you’d be wrong. It’s, apparently, what they live for.
    Knowing quite a few of them, I can assure you that these failings of character extend into their personal lives as well, so at least they’re consistent.

    Gone are the tough questions – hell, gone are the serious questions. Joe Biden has not been asked one substantive question since early this year. His limited, screened and scripted press availability have included nothing of relevance to anyone who works outside of a liberal newsroom.
    You have a short memory. Despite the State press' complicity in the Obama administration, he was quite unpopular during his presidency.
    Trump told a lot of stupid insignificant lies and his Twitter addiction was immature, but Obama still has the Lie of the Decade.
    We know what fake news looks like now and we recognize it.
    We'll be watching closely.

    Politics goes back and forth. Yin and yang. Always has , always will.

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    Literally no denying the OP. Joe will probably get a three and half year honeymoon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    You have a short memory. Despite the State press' complicity in the Obama administration, he was quite unpopular during his presidency.
    Trump told a lot of stupid insignificant lies and his Twitter addiction was immature, but Obama still has the Lie of the Decade.
    We know what fake news looks like now and we recognize it.
    We'll be watching closely.

    Politics goes back and forth. Yin and yang. Always has , always will.
    It's ALL fake news -nothing to watch for
    You'll just be treated to banalities ( like Joe's dogs) instead of policy questioning.
    Or maybe a few scripted responses otherwise to give it the appearance of journalism

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    It's ALL fake news -nothing to watch for
    You'll just be treated to banalities ( like Joe's dogs) instead of policy questioning.
    Or maybe a few scripted responses otherwise to give it the appearance of journalism
    Nah. They were tough on Clinton and Obama. They'll be tough on Biden.

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    Trump ran a Whitehouse without pets, music, literature, poetry or dance. Trump is a small man who cares about himself. He golfed alone without family. He is a very sad person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    Nah. They were tough on Clinton and Obama. They'll be tough on Biden.
    Clinton somewhat -and I was a Clinton voter so I paid attention. but for Obama they were an obsequious lot

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    It's ALL fake news -nothing to watch for
    You'll just be treated to banalities ( like Joe's dogs) instead of policy questioning.
    Or maybe a few scripted responses otherwise to give it the appearance of journalism
    If the radical far left of the dims take control (I think they will) it won't matter what State News doesn't report. We'll know.
    I'm already thinking Republican candidates will have an easy campaign in two years.
    I remember the midterm in Clinton's first term all they had to do was put up billboards with Bill and Hillary's faces to remind voters not to vote dim. Not only did it work but Bill became a Republican overnight.

    Same with Obama's first midterm. Republican candidates used the same easy strategy. All they had to do was put up signs with Pelosi, Harry Reid and Obama's faces and they won going away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    When a Democrat is in the White House, journalists spend more time sucking up to the administration than doing anything that could even loosely be defined as reporting. It’s embarrassing to watch.
    It was only a matter of time before the media reverted to the lazy, drooling, throne-sniffing sycophants they were from 2009 to 2017.
    And they’re back, already, still wearing their ready-to-be-clutched pearls should President Trump say anything in the next two months, but the storage space for their fainting couches has already been rented and shelf space is being cleared for “fluffer” awards they will give each other for their “reporting” in the coming years.

    You’d think grown adults would be ashamed to so bastardize their professions and prostitute themselves before the entire world, but you’d be wrong. It’s, apparently, what they live for.
    Knowing quite a few of them, I can assure you that these failings of character extend into their personal lives as well, so at least they’re consistent.

    Gone are the tough questions – hell, gone are the serious questions. Joe Biden has not been asked one substantive question since early this year. His limited, screened and scripted press availability have included nothing of relevance to anyone who works outside of a liberal newsroom.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Literally no denying the OP. Joe will probably get a three and half year honeymoon.

    The media is largely a joke. I’m to the point I don’t watch it.
    3 & 1/2 month honeymoon - then it's Hitlery Harris & her shoes, hot sauce stance & favorite Handmaiden character.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    Nah. They were tough on Clinton and Obama. They'll be tough on Biden.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    When a Democrat is in the White House, journalists spend more time sucking up to the administration than doing anything that could even loosely be defined as reporting. It’s embarrassing to watch.
    It was only a matter of time before the media reverted to the lazy, drooling, throne-sniffing sycophants they were from 2009 to 2017.
    And they’re back, already, still wearing their ready-to-be-clutched pearls should President Trump say anything in the next two months, but the storage space for their fainting couches has already been rented and shelf space is being cleared for “fluffer” awards they will give each other for their “reporting” in the coming years.

    You’d think grown adults would be ashamed to so bastardize their professions and prostitute themselves before the entire world, but you’d be wrong. It’s, apparently, what they live for.
    Knowing quite a few of them, I can assure you that these failings of character extend into their personal lives as well, so at least they’re consistent.

    Gone are the tough questions – hell, gone are the serious questions. Joe Biden has not been asked one substantive question since early this year. His limited, screened and scripted press availability have included nothing of relevance to anyone who works outside of a liberal newsroom.

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