The mainstream media SERIOUSLY desperate to rip Trump

[Gandalf]

The media has always been like this, but because it is so dumbed down with simplified messages, it just seems more glaring than ever. Take the US media response to the Iraq war, for instance. The bias and lack of a position of opposition to what was obviously another war crime and the almost wanton glee with the actual coverage when it was underway was pretty shocking. In 2016, you see the bias out in all its dumbed down force yet again and for sure Trump is being spun all over the place regardless of what he ACTUALLY said. Wikileaks revealed that the Democrat is essentially a dictatorship and that they have their hands on a very corrupt media system.

The positives to take from it are that the mainstream media is dying as evidenced by the viewing figures and that more and more people do not get their news from those sources preferring to listen to news that isn't dictated by commercials, stock prices, and a conceited political agenda. I cannot take CNN for more than a few minutes and I have to turn it off. I am not super smart, but I find myself able to dissect most of the arguments made in a second or two as they aren't even very good with their sophistry.

Excellent points. No one can any longer takes CNN for more than a couple of minutes as it is just regurgitation of political correctness and mamby pamby simplified left-leaning garbage

I question what people even mean by left and right anymore as CNN with its support of wars, markets, and ignorance of widespread issues of poverty is pretty right leaning. It's like the notion of defining Clinton as left wing when she is probably more right wing than Donald Trump. The left isn't all bad, but then again neither is the right. That's why I think an intelligent person should be able to pick and choose and make up their own minds instead of this 'left or right, make up your mind' asinine mentality. It's really right against right. That it boils down to Clinton against Trump is insulting.

The media doesn't only do it to Trump, but anyone who might disagree with how the system is run. Jill Stein is generally ignored, but when she is covered she is taken completely out of context too and it is too ensure anyone who is even thinking about voting that way should be convinced that she is too 'out there' to even consider.

It's a pantomime and to think of all the money that goes into it considering the poverty there. It's unthinkable.