Constitution

a Free Press with an agenda, is not 'the Press'...

Read a little history. The press has always included editorials and opinions. This is nothing new. That is the way it should be. William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal, typify the political debates that have their roots in newspapers published when our country was established. What the founders knew was that when the debate stopped, or worse yet was stifled, we would be in jeopardy of losing it all. If news people are telling us what happened, how is that attacking, like they have been accused of doing. When a politician changes his story in substantial ways because the facts undermine each new version of it, that is on him, not them.

Rachel Maddow Literally WEEPING at the News of Trump's Election is Not an Op-Ed
Dan Rather falsifying Documents is not Op-Ed

is Trump an Ass? yes.

But the media is Constantly and Consistently spinning everything he says and does into

- He's going to kill us all.
- He's dumber than Cheese.
- The Sky is Falling.

when the sky does not fall and we're not dead it just supports the idea that they do not know what they are talking about.

Rachal Maddow presents commentary. Anyone who does not know the difference between that and hard news, has a problem. The people who ask questions at news conferences and briefings and write those news stories in the paper and for broadcast are reporters. In case you missed it, Fox News did the things you speak of for 8-years when Obama was president. Where was the condemnation of the news industry? As for Dan Rather, please check your facts. He did not falsify anything. He just accepted as fact, information about the curious transfers from one Air National Guard status to another and gaps in the service recond of George W. Bush as presented by a third party. I believe that this was at a time when Mr. Bush had not stopped drinking, etc. The questions have never been answered, but the spin was successful in killing the impact of the story. Rather should have dug deeper and developed more than one source. It was sloppy journalism at worst. But, it was not falsifying.

Maddow was an ANCHOR of their Election Coverage... her usual nightly bull scat is simply the opposite side of Bill O'Reilly's same shitty Coin...

and how many Times has she claimed to have 'breaking news' about Trump's Taxes or Russia...

The type of shows that Maddow and O'Reilly host are similar. Both provide news information. Both provide their personal perspectives and some attempt to justify thier angles. But, condemning the news industry because of what either of them or their cable outlets do, is absurd. I used to watch William F. Buckley's PBS show. I knew going in that I would probably disagree with his take on the meaning of events. But, the process that he took in analyzing politics was interesting and engaging. I felt more inclined to believe in the positive role of social programs on a society that had evolved to be far more complex, challenging and overwhelming than the greatest political minds of the 18th century could have imagined. It is probably safe ti assume that this is where our political path diverge. I'm OK with that, and you should be, too. This is a free country, where diverse opinions are a strength, not a weakness. But, saying that we don't have a free press because two cable companies who package news-information-opinion programming the same way the WWE is sold, is wrong. Some 1,200 independent newspapers are published every day in this country. They employ reporters who practice journalism the way it has been practiced forever, facts first. They have editorial/opinion sections. But, they are kept separate from the hard news. On rare occasion they rely on a long-standing and widely accepted practice of publishing an editorial on a subject of great importance, on the front page. These are not the "Enemy of the People." Yet, they report the same facts as do those two "Cable News," companies.

You did notice he lied about the meeting with Russian spys right? First it never happened at all, then it happened but it was about orphans and trump did not know, NOW he KNEW , HE LIED about what he told JR to say, and NOW he just says that collusion is not illegal...... well treason and obstruction is.... he mocks the press like putin, because he wants to confuse you.... seems to be working on you and some few others.

I am going to attempt to put together a timeline concerning the official statements about the "Trump Tower," meeting. What was said day one, and the latest iteration have no resemblance to each other.

Yea well, you are bit late on that - https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/a-timeline-of-trump-tower-meeting-responses/

The agenda is to present information in a way that sells newspapers, etc. If they had a "political agenda," that guided how they present facts, how would you know about Paula Jones?

Call me a cynic , but it's bought and paid for with big Corporate money just like everything else

Thats why public television is the most accurate and without hyperbole.

We are now and have always been a capitalist country. The new companies have always been big business. But, that does not change the score of a baseball game. Facts are facts on CNN and PBS.

With PBS and CBN that's true , but the Networks and News channels are driven by ratings , sensationalizing and twisting the news is how they survive . "The facts are unimportant" is an actual statement from Wolf Blitzer .

It's been a long time since those news reporters have went and done their own study right now they read a teleprompter that is what the rich rich people want them to say.

Ultimately it's up to us the people to study and decide what's really going on but on the bit with the news if they were not so biased maybe they could better push their agenda right now it's just a lot of crying wolf, what if the president really did do something evil? No one is gonna believe cnn they been saying he was the devil since day one and that's the real crime.