How will our free press survive?

[Anonymous]

ABC cowed down to captain underpants. How is this ok in the land of the free???

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5429827/abc-fires-terry-moran-trump-stephen-miller-world-class-hater

[Anonymous]

Look at what the press did in Los Angeles. They created a false picture of riots and looting for Trump. When you see the wider pictures there are more reporters and police vs protesters.

They show the same car that ICE set on fire with flash bang grenade. Flash bang pyrotechnic mixture of metal oxidants and magnesium or aluminum sets things on fire.

Few and few people are getting their information from the heavily self censored corporate media.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at what the press did in Los Angeles. They created a false picture of riots and looting for Trump. When you see the wider pictures there are more reporters and police vs protesters.

They show the same car that ICE set on fire with flash bang grenade. Flash bang pyrotechnic mixture of metal oxidants and magnesium or aluminum sets things on fire.

Few and few people are getting their information from the heavily self censored corporate media.

This post is funny. Try getting your news from people actually on the ground there.

[Anonymous]

Most corporately owned media will become more and more irrelevant. Shrug.
Alternatives have always existed. It’s up to us as individuals and communities to support the alternatives that distinguish between “opinions” and “news” — and provide enough information for those of us who also seek out primary sources and value fact-checking.

As a kid, my family watched network news and read the daily papers. We also read newspapers and magazines supported by African American communities — that reported the stories and the facts that so-called mainstream sources of news left out. I’m back to that again — with internet options.

[Anonymous]

Most papers and networks did a nice job today -- The King parade was story #3 and was paired with news of No Kings protests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ABC cowed down to captain underpants. How is this ok in the land of the free???

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5429827/abc-fires-terry-moran-trump-stephen-miller-world-class-hater

I actually agree with ABC's decision in this case. We all want our mainstream media sources to present news in an objective whole truth manner. News reporters presenting their opinions turns mainstream objective news into Fox News or MSNBC. Half truth news based on political bias and opinion can be found on the cable news networks. If I'm tuning into ABC news, I'm assuming I'm getting straight-forward news which isn't a safe assumption if those presenting the news have exposed their political bias for the world to see.

While I may share an opinion with Moran, I realize he is best suited for a job at Fox News or MSNBC.

[Anonymous]

That would be a fine argument if ABC wasn’t pressured by the White House to fire him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ABC cowed down to captain underpants. How is this ok in the land of the free???

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5429827/abc-fires-terry-moran-trump-stephen-miller-world-class-hater

I actually agree with ABC's decision in this case. We all want our mainstream media sources to present news in an objective whole truth manner. News reporters presenting their opinions turns mainstream objective news into Fox News or MSNBC. Half truth news based on political bias and opinion can be found on the cable news networks. If I'm tuning into ABC news, I'm assuming I'm getting straight-forward news which isn't a safe assumption if those presenting the news have exposed their political bias for the world to see.

While I may share an opinion with Moran, I realize he is best suited for a job at Fox News or MSNBC.

No that is not what people want. They got rid of their subscriptions to Washington Post when they refused to endorse Kamala Harris.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ABC cowed down to captain underpants. How is this ok in the land of the free???

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5429827/abc-fires-terry-moran-trump-stephen-miller-world-class-hater

I actually agree with ABC's decision in this case. We all want our mainstream media sources to present news in an objective whole truth manner. News reporters presenting their opinions turns mainstream objective news into Fox News or MSNBC. Half truth news based on political bias and opinion can be found on the cable news networks. If I'm tuning into ABC news, I'm assuming I'm getting straight-forward news which isn't a safe assumption if those presenting the news have exposed their political bias for the world to see.

While I may share an opinion with Moran, I realize he is best suited for a job at Fox News or MSNBC.

No that is not what people want. They got rid of their subscriptions to Washington Post when they refused to endorse Kamala Harris.

There will always be idiots who go to Fox News, MSNBC and the likes for their daily doses of half truth news but most of us want objective real news sources we can rely on.

[Anonymous]

I watched about an hour of CNN and it seemed like the background video was an hour of the same shirtless guy standing in an LA intersection taunting police. With brief cutaways to NYC.

First, what the heck, CNN? I get that the NYC videos were boring, but stop pimping that shirtless guy! I get it, anarchists get views, but you can't out compete nyp and fox on sensationalism.

Second, f-- that shirtless guy and all the violent and threatening protestors. I f--ng hate all the anarchists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I watched about an hour of CNN and it seemed like the background video was an hour of the same shirtless guy standing in an LA intersection taunting police. With brief cutaways to NYC.

First, what the heck, CNN? I get that the NYC videos were boring, but stop pimping that shirtless guy! I get it, anarchists get views, but you can't out compete nyp and fox on sensationalism.

Second, f-- that shirtless guy and all the violent and threatening protestors. I f--ng hate all the anarchists.

Agree. The criminal anarchists ruin any chance of productive peaceful protests. It just takes one store being looted to negate all the positive and newsworthy attention a protest could have garnered.

[Anonymous]

The press were begging people to be naughty so that they’d have a story. I don’t think that it will survive in its current form, but who cares?

New media is rising. If the old guard wants to pretend that there is some “two sides” with t Trump and then the rest of us living in reality land, then their media can all compete with each other and the Weekly World
News. They can sandwich in MAGAs conspiracies between Batboy Stories and Area 51 news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I watched about an hour of CNN and it seemed like the background video was an hour of the same shirtless guy standing in an LA intersection taunting police. With brief cutaways to NYC.

First, what the heck, CNN? I get that the NYC videos were boring, but stop pimping that shirtless guy! I get it, anarchists get views, but you can't out compete nyp and fox on sensationalism.

Second, f-- that shirtless guy and all the violent and threatening protestors. I f--ng hate all the anarchists.

Agree. The criminal anarchists ruin any chance of productive peaceful protests. It just takes one store being looted to negate all the positive and newsworthy attention a protest could have garnered.

Lmao, no. Millions and millions were out peacefully protesting and everyone saw it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ABC cowed down to captain underpants. How is this ok in the land of the free???

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5429827/abc-fires-terry-moran-trump-stephen-miller-world-class-hater

I actually agree with ABC's decision in this case. We all want our mainstream media sources to present news in an objective whole truth manner. News reporters presenting their opinions turns mainstream objective news into Fox News or MSNBC. Half truth news based on political bias and opinion can be found on the cable news networks. If I'm tuning into ABC news, I'm assuming I'm getting straight-forward news which isn't a safe assumption if those presenting the news have exposed their political bias for the world to see.

While I may share an opinion with Moran, I realize he is best suited for a job at Fox News or MSNBC.

No that is not what people want. They got rid of their subscriptions to Washington Post when they refused to endorse Kamala Harris.

Apples and oranges. People want unbiased news, and they want the editorial page to present opinion pieces the readers find thought-provoking and that they agree with more often than not.

The problem with the WaPo is that the new newspaper owner forced a change of position on the long-standing editorial staff that the WaPo subscribers wanted to hear from.

Worse, the pivot was a manifestation of the tech bros kowtowing to Trump in favor of their own self-interest and against the good of the public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I watched about an hour of CNN and it seemed like the background video was an hour of the same shirtless guy standing in an LA intersection taunting police. With brief cutaways to NYC.

First, what the heck, CNN? I get that the NYC videos were boring, but stop pimping that shirtless guy! I get it, anarchists get views, but you can't out compete nyp and fox on sensationalism.

Second, f-- that shirtless guy and all the violent and threatening protestors. I f--ng hate all the anarchists.

Agree. The criminal anarchists ruin any chance of productive peaceful protests. It just takes one store being looted to negate all the positive and newsworthy attention a protest could have garnered.

Lmao, no. Millions and millions were out peacefully protesting and everyone saw it.

I saw that too and then thousands of criminals ruined what otherwise could have been beautifully peaceful protests. Ignoring the truth makes you as stupid and careless as MAGAs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e41FPT20Yb4