I want to see the press/media's influence on the election investigated!

[jasper1372]

Originally Posted by mightleavenyc

Seriously. What could russia even do? Hire internet trolls maybe. Just like Hillary did.

From what I can gather, about the worst thing "the Russians" could actually and objectively be accused of is giving us a window of truth into democratic party inside communications....which obviously weren't very complimentary to the party or those running the show.

No one in the party ever really disputed the validity of the published information, so if you can't defend against the message, you try like hell to scream about the nasty messenger.

I won't dispute that the democratic party information that came to light wasn't damaging to them....but by the same token, isn't it a shame when truth come out, and we scream about how unfair that fact it. I gather truth has no place in campaigns....and how dare we actually have truth presented to us. Far better to have them tell us only what they want to, while doing all manner of unsavory things behind the scenes.

Much has been made of the fact that "equal time" wasn't given to revealing republican misdeeds behind the scenes. Ok...so be it, I can accept that. So are we ready to work campaigns where if something dastardly bad is revealed by a candidate, the only way to fairly proceed is if the other candidates reveal some dastardly deed they have done ?

When the media outed John Edwards for messing around with another women in Beverly Hills hotel back in 2008, would that be considered unfair since the media only released damaging information against one candidate ? Perhaps we should require any media source with damaging information against one candidate, or party, to find something equally bad against the other candidate or party before publishing....after all, that's only fair, right ? I mean we all know everyone has dirt, so it's just not right to publish anything that isn't equally damning to all candidates or parties.

[swbtoo]

^^^ logical.

[Bureaucat]

Griping because you think your side didn't get a fair shake from the media is natural and fair game, but advocating fining or shutting down the media is entirely different, and is unacceptable unless you would be perfectly satisfied living in a totalitarian country where only news permitted by the government is allowed.

You might not like all that's printed, but it's part of the price of freedom.