2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHey! Remember when ALMOST EVERY Newpaper Endorsed HRC? No?
Maybe it's our message that needs work.
Or it's the shameless, illegal and gross fraud that happened to us on Election Day.
It's not OUR message. It's THEIR crimes.
triron
(22,240 posts)cilla4progress
(25,868 posts)Stunning
Needs to be repeated daily
JI7
(90,462 posts)the rest are reading and listening to crap that tells them clinton is running some prostitution ring at a pizza place.
ProgressIsLeft
(59 posts)Old media is dying. The message contained within these days is marginal at best.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)and now they pretend nothing can be done about it
ProgressIsLeft
(59 posts)I want to see proof of it and thus far there's been none put forward, just allegations of it.
Seen this? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)The alternative is JUNK media like fake news sites, blogs, and so forth.
Traditional media isn't dying anytime soon.
ProgressIsLeft
(59 posts)Old media IS dying.
Most people these days get their news from Facebook.
http://www.journalism.org/2016/05/26/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-2016/
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)and you know it
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)People who listen to it everyday suffer from cognitive dissonance thinking the fake news is real and the real news is fake. That's why they thought Trump was "telling it like it is". When you compare what Trump says with talk radio then he makes perfect sense.
Takket
(22,479 posts)The greatest crisis facing this nation is... How do you combat this? How do you appeal to persons who have been brainwashed into a Pavlovian reaction that everything you say is a lie? Fact and information are useless.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)we totally under-estimated how much people would be turned off by Trump, and under-estimated how much Hillary's issues hurt her.
There's a huge double standard, and it's enraging.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)I read them, but seems like most people don't.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)duffyduff
(3,251 posts)GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Just vaguely, but I remember it. 1980-something. Wait, they are still printing newspapers? And people actually pay for them? And those people are actually influencing national elections? wtf???
MineralMan
(147,483 posts)got a daily paper. That was a long, long time ago, though. Newspapers are dying everywhere. Their endorsements mean little today.