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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Yes, it's so different from the judicious, skeptical way the media covered Benghazi and the Clinton email issues, to take two examples.
If you want media that do not respond to free-market incentives to sell ads, you need to think of something else.
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Agreed. The media handled those issues horribly. And Fox was the main culprit in that. But the rest of the media joined in when they realized it created some ratings benefit.
But you know what? We've still got actual journalists out there like Taibbi who put all the facts together and write stories explaining the way the media bullshits the public and inflates expectations. That's all his story is about. He's saying, "Here's how the media inflamed this thing to such wild expectations that people are now in shock that there turned out to be no collusion."
He's just tracing all the bullshit. As journalists do. The clowns on Fox and MSNBC can do their shtick -- gloating on one hand, crafting wild conspiracies involving Barr and Rosenstein on the other. As he notes in the piece, they learned nothing after Iraq, and they'll learn nothing from this. And why should they? Bullshit and hype sell ads.
