MSNBC Anchor Admits "Our Job" Is To "Control Exactly What People Think"

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  1. WalterSobchak

    WalterSobchak Well-Known Member

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    They are doing a terrible job quite honestly. Their ratings show nobody actually watches MSNBC for the most part.
     
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    How is this any different from the Conservative system of following what FoxNews, Breitbart, talk radio, and an ancient book of mythology tells them to?
     
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    yes, MSNBC and FOX have always been that way, they are both very partisan imo
     
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    lmao, like ths show, the outer limits, has come to real life
     
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    Not according to the polls. I made a thread about bias media

    CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC all rated for left wing bias.

    One major network (only one) was rated for right wing bias. Fox News


    Thus, the left is trying WAY harder to brainwash.
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Whatever liberals don't like, whether true or false is fake news, because that's what their media masters tell them...
     
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    MSNBC is a propaganda network for the Democratic establishment, not the "left." Huge difference. The mainstream media is motivated by corporate interests, not liberal ideology. They hate Trump because the national security complex hates Trump. He's not part of the club. It's that simple.
     
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    "Nobody" watches MSNBC, but Trumpists panties are all in a bunch over a station "nobody watches"?

    Cool.

    It looks like the knee-jerk RW has played right into Mika's hands.

    Giving publicity to this network nobody watches.

    Mika needs to pull stunts like this everyday.

    After today, I am sure that every Fever Swamp blogger and adherent to Trump's Fourth Reich ideology is faithfully DVRing her every syllable.

    Good work, Mika. Keep it up. :salute:
     
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    Make of this media person or anyone else as you please she did not say that the media should control what people think.. With regard to her comment regard control, she referred to President Trump controlling what people think not the media. Why has no one else realized this? What am I missing here?

    She stated that it was the media's job to report the facts,unemployment numbers etc
     
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    Our PRESS is handed off to each new generation to serve the interests of the People, who because of our form of gov't demand that our citizens be kept well informed of the facts, in a non biased objective manner so when they go to elect the people who represent them in a gov't intended to be by and for the people, self governance, rational choices can be made in the voting booth. But the Press has the tremendous responsibility to speak truth to power whenever our gov't exceeds its boundaries, or when corruption and graft affect our gov't, via criminal and treasonous politicians.

    But somewhere along the line the Press was hand over to a people, which is now 6 huge corporations owned by some of our elites, and in doing this the Press was literally destroyed, giving us Yellow Journalism, conducted by faux journalists that are paid vast sums of money, which makes them millionaires when our old real deal journalists were middle class people. For conducting real journalism does not pay millions of bucks.

    So our Press is currently deader than hell and anyone who remembers MSM from the 50s and 60s, knows this for it is just that visibly obvious. Some people even believe that this Yellow Journalism is what journalism is supposed to look like, and they will believe every single word of what these propagandists tell them.

    MSM even went so far as to tell their viewers they were not doing journalism when fighting for Hillary, and the viewers, their customers loved it. If you destroy your Press, but beat trump, that was ok. And this, these kind of faux liberals are not worthy of the republic the founders created for them. These are the same people who feed off of yellow journalism, celebrate it, and then would shout down any opposing voice. This is faux liberalism folks. Faux liberals and faux journalism go together like peas and carrots. You cannot have one without the other, so it is a kind of symbiotic relationship.

    Let me repeat that. faux liberalism and faux journalism are in a symbiotic relationship. One cannot exist without the other.
     
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    a daily dose of main stream thought police...
     
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    Please.

    "Control what people think" by presenting the facts is much different from "control what people think" with a steady stream of lies and fake news.

    Try looking up the word "context."
     
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    I am of the opinion that the ONLY ratings MSNBC has is of Righties watching it to report and (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) about it.
     
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    This really shows how dishonest right wingers can be. You guys have been told what to think for decades from Fox news. Most of you all say the same exact likes, do the same deflections, ask the same stupid questions to liberals, say the same made up stuff about liberals, and have shown you have no credibility. But here you are trying to pin it on liberals.

    Oh, by the way, you guys like to brag about Fox ratings, which doesnt' bode well for you. It shows liberals get news from other stations, while most conservatives only go to Fox. Shows where the bias really stands
     
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    She believes that because she's a "progressive" and being a "progressive" is all about power and control.

    Look at all the GroupThink™. Every time I roll through the LW MSM they're all parroting the same Current Truth™.

    It would be creepy if it wasn't so vacuous...
     
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    I thought it was well known white boy uneducated conservatives were way more brainwashed and living in the 50'sMight help if you knew the def of liberal. From liber= free. Never had Latin in your high school?
    She does? Let me listen to the whole context instead of just blabbing one line
     
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    Amazing, isn't it? They think they have credibility and are making smarts. They support Trump and his claims of "fake news" when they are reporting on his actual words, documented in video and Twitter, and confirmed by Trump himself. I mean seriously, some of these people have completely lost their minds
     
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    Keep avoiding the actual topic when you have nothing Liberals. It's amusing.
     
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    Your missing quite a bit. Watch the clip again. She was speaking of Trump trying to control what people think. Her next words are "that is our job".
     
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    That is incorrect. The corporate interests clearly are not motivated by money of these news "sources" would have changed their ways. The LA Times, NY Times, CNN, MSNBC, etc... all continue with hardcore Left Wing bias when they could change up their message and win significant audience. I could fix CNN in 2 months time and be competitive with Fox News given the chance to set the line up. They don't make those changes, because it's about influence not money. This is not a Free Market of ideas, this is a brainwashing for the easily manipulated.
     
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    im so tired of fake news like actual video of them saying it. obviously it was all CGI
     
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    So why do y'all have an issue with Trump wanting to follow immigration laws?
     
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    You clearly have very little historical perspective. Did you just start paying attention to politics in 2009?
     
  24. Sampson Simpon

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    ACtually, I'm right on topic and all that is being discussed here. You are just deflecting, which avoids the topic. What kind of argument do you call this? Sorry, stop deflecting your own short comings on liberals. There are plenty arguments made by liberals with things called logic and reasoning. Maybe you can try the same. And "liberals are poopyheads" is not logic and reasoning
     
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    The MSM is quite good at taking a few chosen words and intentionally drawing a fake conclusion.
    Haven't you realized this?
     

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