It's way past time for democrats to be calling out the ENTIRE republican infrastructure of news and government.

[BComplex]

Fuxx Nooz and McClatchy are responsible for so much of the hate that is spewed toward Democrats, the Democratic party, and twisting and lying about just about everything, to make republicans look better in every way than democrats or liberals or any progressive or compassionate (fair) ideas.

Republicans, and the companies on whose boards they serve, need to be called out for the way that republicans are ALLOWED to publicly trash democrats with the most heinous accusactions: pedophelia, terrorist-loving, etc etc. Just listen to how the republican senators and house members talk about democrats. It's fucking creepy.

[rubbersole]

1. If they didn't have this rw noise machine that peddles...

..lies and disinformation 24/7 they'd be lucky to get 30% of any national vote. It's been working since Limbaugh. With unlimited funding.

[BComplex]

3. I totally agree. They control the message, and it's mostly lies. Limbaugh, Fuxx nooz, and Newt Gingrich were the

beginning of the end of any truthful media put out by the corporate owned, and republican run, networks.

[gab13by13]

2. There's a better way

Magats are not allowed to do town halls so Democrats need to step up and do what AOC and Bernie are doing, TOWN HALLS.

The people will come, the people want their orders.

[murielm99]

13. They are.

Sean Casten (D) will be in my red district holding a town hall. There will be an empty chair town hall my rep's home town.

Give credit where it is due.

[GoreWon2000]

4. Media has been pro repug for 25 years

There's no better example of this than campaign 2000 where the media let W lie all the way threw that campaign while they trashed Al Gore at every turn. It still took the repug Rehnquist 5 to install W in the White House and against the will of the people.The archives of the Daily Howler blog cites specific media reporting with names and dates to document this. It's the only written record to do this that I'm aware of.

[BComplex]

5. The 24/7 "trump" from every media network, starting with his trip down the golden escalator,

is what put this nightmare in motion to begin with. At the time, EVERY channel couldn't talk about anything but trump, every minute of every day.

[GoreWon2000]

7. W made tRump possible

The media played a large role in helping W to be able to get close enough in Florida by attacking Al Gore at every turn while they let W lie throughout the entire campaign. Then millions of Americans watched in horror as their legal votes were thrown out by the repug Rehnquist 5 with full media approval and have since decided that democracy no longer works while the media continues to sane wahs tRump.

[BComplex]

19. That's true. They made this whole nightmare possible.

[unblock]

27. I'll raise a glass for the daily howler

That was some most excellent journalistic chronicling of the relentless smearing of Al gore and the trash that passed as reporting.

[GoreWon2000]

31. Exactly!

It's the only written record that I'm aware of.

[SheltieLover]

6. Absolutely!

[BComplex]

8. Every Democrat, and every news pundit, should be calling out the media bias, and call it what it is:

republican owned and managed from the $$ to the board rooms.

It's contributing to the IGNORANCE of the electorate.

[SheltieLover]

9. And rethug congress failure to impeach makes them complicit

They are part of the problem!

Do not let the worms wriggle off the hook. Make them own their behavior and the consequences to citizens.

No offense to worms intemded.

[BComplex]

20. Exactly! And the media gave them cover to avoid impeaching. They made Mitch McConnell look legitimate

And they never trashed him for his move on Obama's ability to pick the supreme court justice. The media has let republicans slide on every piece, every fact that America never heard about from them, that started America down the path to ruin via the trump magat crazies.

[SheltieLover]

23. Absolutely!

[bronxiteforever]

10. Sinclair too.

[BComplex]

21. Bingo! Sinclair right wing nazis.

They've been at this for a while.

[nuxvomica]

11. Why are you including McClatchy?

Do you have examples of them promoting right-wing ideas? I always thought they were center-left in their coverage.

[Cirsium]

14. Marketing firm

Looking at their website I would say that they are a marketing firm that uses journalism to support their marketing programs.

"To ensure that your advertising resonates with the audience that's right for you, McClatchy offers a variety of strategic targeting opportunities. This encompasses everything from Content-Based and Consumption-Based Audiences to Demographic-Based Targeting, leveraging first and third-party data integration for precision marketing campaigns​​.

"McClatchy Advertising offers our clients access to sought-after audiences in 29 markets and beyond via a robust suite of digital and traditional advertising solutions that can be built and scaled to help our local and regional partners grow their businesses.

"Supported by client success experts, media strategists, campaign fulfillment specialists and many others, the McClatchy team is committed to partnering every step of the way to ensure our clients make the most of their local marketing efforts. "

https://www.mcclatchy.com/

[jayschool2013]

16. Look at their news site

Not their business site.

I know the two are clearly entwined, but the journalists remain mostly independent of the business arm.

McClatchy news site

Here's an independent analysis of their news content.

[Cirsium]

17. Funny

They are a business. I looked at their main domain. It is pretty clear that they are first and foremost a marketing company. That's where the money is.

"The journalists remain mostly independent of the business arm." How often have we heard that reassuring pablum?

I reject that "spectrum" nonsense, by the way. It is yet another way to create a "both sides" false equivalency view of US politics. "Left of center" lololol. What does that even mean, given that the "center" is fascism.

Granted, McClatchy's operation is representative of the state of so-called journalism today, and they are probably no worse than many and better than some.

Still, they are representative of the state of journalism today. That's not good.

[jayschool2013]

15. Right!?!?

McClatchy consistently ranks as a highly factual and slightly left-of-center news source.

Not getting that complaint, either.

They may have been thinking of Sinclair.

[maxsolomon]

18. If you're going rant, be accurate who you're ranting about.

[BComplex]

22. "Liberal Media" is what the right wing loves to call right wing news.

If I'm not mistaken, McClatchy is responsible for a lot of the AM radio (hate radio) and high school sports stations in the rural markets.

[nuxvomica]

24. I think you mean "McClatchey Broadcasting", with an "e"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClatchey_Broadcasting

[BComplex]

29. Yep! Thanks!

[paulkienitz]

12. from Fox to Shapiro to Alex Jones back to Limbaugh... they're not partisan propaganda, they're hate propaganda.

[yellow dahlia]

26. Agreed!

[yellow dahlia]

25. I agree. I monitor RWmedia and fact check them often,

on a social media acct, that I kept for this purpose.

They are indeed creepy...and vitriolic...and put targets on the back of "radical lefty lunatics", and Dems.

They attack Dems and they justify everything the grifter does. It's propaganda riddled state tv.

I have wanted Dems to call them out, and fact check more.

[RockRaven]

28. I've said it repeatedly, and refrain from posting at every opportunity for fear of boring

our fellow DUers, but these are REPUBLICAN tariffs and REPUBLICAN firings/layoffs of government agencies and REPUBLICAN mismanagement.

Not Trump.
Not Musk.

REPUBLICAN.

[BComplex]

30. Truly! Thanks RockRaven!

They are ALL guilty of trying to screw Americans. The republicans have ALWAYS been wrong on every single issue:
Equal rights for women and POC
Abortion
Religion
Education (they are responsible for taking Civics/Social Studies classes out of schools)
Wars
Taxes (Even their tax cuts raise prices of fees and hidden costs)
Climate Change
Guns
Voting rights

I mean, the list goes on.

[William769]

32. K&R