US News Media is Broken

[angrychair]

At least if about 15 minutes ago not a single major US news channel was covering Syria and the falling of a brutal dictator.
You had to go to international media like BBC News to find live coverage.
Absolutely embarrassing. "Freedom of the Press" is pointless if the press no longer wants to be free but embraces dictatorship.

[Lulu KC]

1. Washington Post and NYT have had it at top of page all day n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

2. MSNBC has been on it all night.

[angrychair]

4. Last I saw

They were doing a documentary on immigrants.
I don't watch them though. Just flipped to see what they were doing.

[mwooldri]

9. At 2.44 am EST MSNBC had switched to Sky News

Makes sense, since Sky News has the resources for this kind of thing, and that they try to compete with the British Broadcasting Corp.

[GoreWon2000]

3. I figured this out in 2000

The worst media coverage of a Presidential election in my lifetime took place in 2000. The media made no effort to hide its support for W.

[Skittles]

5. it would be top news if a repuke was president

they'd be going on about how great they are

[PufPuf23]

8. Times of Israel has two lead stories regards Trump on Syria

Trump claims Assad fled Syria after losing Russia’s support

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-claims-assad-fled-syria-after-losing-russias-support/

Trump says US should stay out of Syria civil war: ‘Let it play out’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-says-us-should-stay-out-of-syria-civil-war-let-it-play-out/

[Skittles]

12. I don't believe a fucking thing Trump says

he's a fucking dictator-wannabe - Putin and Assad are his HEROES

[PufPuf23]

16. We are in agreement. Trump is chaos.

No mention of POTUS Biden on Times of Israel homepage.

There is a Trump subsection on the lower right below the two articles linked.

[Mark.b2]

6. Election night confirmed this to me...

I was constantly refreshing my timelines throught the evening and many of the non-MSM posters, orgs, and groups I follow were calling states for Harris and Trump long before the MSM networks would. My apolitical wife was watching HGTV until about 11 PM, while I was constantly refreshing FB and X. Once I started watching the networks after she went to bed, I was surprised they werent counting many of the states I had understood to have already been called.

Today’s MSM reminds me of those ads they used to run on TV when I was a kid where they would say “please allow 6-8 for delivery.”

[RockRaven]

7. I dunno about broken, it operates the way the owners want it to.

They way they want it to operate is generally noxious to the rest of us, which really sucks for almost everyone but them.

[C Moon]

10. Last week, I couldn't' believe one of our local news outlets (Los Angeles)

was spewing right wing crap about "why the U.S. voted for trump." and then why voters don't like our governor (Newsom).
It was nuts! It wasn't news, it was just a 30-second scripted op-ed read by the "newscaster."
Right out of left field. Then she went on with other news like the former comments were all fact.

[Skittles]

13. that's part of how fascism takes root

shit like that

[C Moon]

14. :(

[JI7]

11. It's infotainment . The US msm doesn't do real news reporting

[PortTack]

15. Yes....totally.

A response to a comment I made about this, including msnbc was that this was all we had. Boy…that is sad! That’s like an abused wife saying her husband was her only choice. No…no it isn’t. We need to wake up and stop giving them our attention.

Yes, BBC is good. I like DWNews too.

[BoRaGard]

17. Corporate does entertainment, not news

[Kaleva]

18. When I was young, news on tv was about an hour long

Both local and national. And tv went off the air at midnight

If one argues that people were more informed back then, maybe we should return to that.

[Irish_Dem]

19. Like China and Russia, Americans are only told what our overlords want us to know.

[GreenWave]

20. Here are the headlinees for the next 4 years.

Trump of the Trump of the Trump, Trump, Trump