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Ninga

(8,633 posts) Tue Nov 12, 2024, 01:24 PM Nov 12

Until and when there is a major cable network devoted to the message of the Democratic Party, [View all]

in the exact spirit of Fox, we will struggle mightily to get our message out to low information voters. Maybe never agin if we don’t ratchet up messaging.

We need a network, podcasts and social media giants. We need to reach voters where they are and daily inform them in the language of a 6th grader, about what’s what.
Daily. Every day. 24/7

We mainly lost because of messaging. Read the responses to the question AOC posed to voters, and you will find the answer.

Calling billionaires! SOS we need a network. MSNBC will never ever be the answer.

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Until and when there is a major cable network devoted to the message of the Democratic Party, [View all] Ninga Nov 12 OP

There was MSNBC that was more honest. But doc03 Nov 12 #1

Fox would NEVER EVER normalize Dems. EVER. Ninga Nov 12 #3

If this election was fair gab13by13 Nov 12 #2

Under our current form of funding elections via Citizens United, nothing will change. So it was fair. Ninga Nov 12 #4

There are fucking plenty of Dem pods. The problem's drawing a giant audience via conversations with Dem friendly guests. SoFlaBro Nov 12 #5

Ok. Let's get that guy! Now! Ninga Nov 12 #9

I think the best fucking approach is to take someone in the middle and have him/her lean left a bit. SoFlaBro Nov 12 #19

No. taxi Nov 12 #6

Fox is getting THEIR message to low information voters, that''so what keeps them low information. Ninga Nov 12 #8

Whether they are ignorant, willfully ignorant, or conditioned like Pavlov's dogs doesn't make a difference. taxi Nov 12 #10

Ok, I think I get it. To isolate and target such voters would take an extremely well funded Ninga Nov 12 #11

Having billionaires would certainly help. taxi Nov 12 #13

We need our own network. If we had our own network they could be reporting this exact minute Ninga Nov 12 #7

Don't get too hung up on cable networks; they're a dying breed Daveigh Nov 12 #12

Harris lost because more than 9 million people who voted for Biden couldn't be bothered to vote for her. elocs Nov 12 #14

So the horrible bdamomma Nov 12 #15

I posted about this the other day. The key is that we need to *support* our own media... keep_left Nov 12 #16

Cable news is a dying media Zeitghost Nov 12 #17

Cable TV is dying BannonsLiver Nov 12 #18

Let's you and I ( god willing) revisit this in 2 and 4 Ninga Nov 12 #20

The same olds will be watching Fox BannonsLiver Nov 12 #21

It's not cable News. It's social media and things like Joe Rogan JI7 Nov 12 #22