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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by matchbok on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:37PM (#23023246)
The media's job is not to fawn over the president, actually. They are to report the news and tell the people when the president lies.

Therefore, they are doing a great job.

By the way, the most watched cable news is Fox News. I assume you aren't talking about them?

Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by newfriend on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:53PM (#23025512)
> The media's job is not to fawn over the president

I wonder if you felt the same way from 2008 to 2016 when they were fawning over the previous president. It's interesting that they do a great job only when a certain political party happens to be in power.

It's easy to be the most watched cable news when every other mainstream channel is carrying water for the opposition party.

Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by malnourish on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:52PM (#23026686)
Have you ever considered that perhaps reality actually does align more closely with how the media portrays it than the exact opposite?

Just _perhaps_ Republican presidents are worse than Democrat presidents?

Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:27PM (#23023131)
Depends on the channel you listen to.

This comment is just more of the hate-mongering. "I saw an article I didn't agree with: I'm being attacked!" In the same threads, we hear of the bubbles people build by reading only agreeable news. How can all that be true at the same time? It cannot.

Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by anoonmoose on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:30PM (#23023164)
Voting predilections in the US are strongly correlated with the highest attained educational level of the voter. "The Media" as a monolithic structure has a higher average attained educational level than the country at large.

The "why" is obvious; I find a better question would be, are they wrong?

Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by wpietri on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:34PM (#23023214)
I don't think that's the case at all. If there's any problem with the media, it has been overly deferential to power.

That's always been the case. But whatever one thinks of Trump, it's pretty obvious that his campaign and post-election behavior is fundamentally different than presidents in living memory. He has rewritten the rules. The media just hasn't been able to adapt successfully to that, and still often writes about him and his administration as if they're covering things in a different era.

Among many others, journalism professor Jay Rosen has long been making this point, and made it again recently on his blog: https://pressthink.org/2020/04/a-current-list-of-my-top-prob...

Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by adamsea on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:33PM (#23023199)
If you were a member of the media and the President of the United States - of any party - suggested people try injecting bleach as a cure (for anything), what would you do?

What would you say about other politicians who implicitly supported such irresponsible behavior.

This isn't even a political question - I mean it's basic science. Bleach.

Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by rajup on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:45PM (#23023329)
Nobody suggested injecting bleach, please stop spreading exaggerated misinformation.
Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by _1100 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:08PM (#23023576)
In the interest of complete clarity and understanding I went and found the exact transcript and this was exactly what was stated:

“I see disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. "

Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by augustt on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:05PM (#23023538)
Really? Calling it bleach instead of disinfectant is the important source of misinformation here? The lengths people will go...
Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by mydongle on Saturday May 02, 2020 @05:02PM (#23054876)
I have no dog in this fight, but totally natural and edible things like lemon juice and vinegar are also used as a disinfectant.

Sure bleach can be considered a disinfectant, but not all disinfectants are bleach. I do find it fun to extrapolate that Trump was telling people to go drink bleach and die though. Very entertaining during these lockdown times.