On Friday, February 5, 2021 at 11:37:43 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 5 Feb 2021 07:14:30 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

On Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 10:58:45 PM UTC-5, Jim Joyce wrote:
On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:54:49 -0500, micky wrote:

Why do reporters, and this applies just as much when dealing with both
liberals and conservatives, not dig a little deeper than just giving the
interviewee the chance to make a speech?
What you're asking is, why don't they push back when they know something
vague or even untruthful is being said. I think it's as simple as if they
did fact checking in real time, and pushed back as a result, they would
probably find themselves on the outside, looking in, in pretty short order.

Lawmakers don't tend to like it when reporters ask tough questions, in
spite of that being probably the best way to get at the truth. Remember how
Trump used to say, 'That's a nasty question and you're a nasty woman." He
only said out loud what they all probably think when they get a pointed
question.

Odd though how those reporters could ask tough questions,
keep going at Trump,
They asked loads of softball questions of trump. After that blonde's
first question at the debate, few tried good questions.

I was referring more to Trump's four years as president. The press sure
went after him hard there. Compare that to the press actively helping Biden,
trying to claim that the laptop was a Russian plant. If that was Eric Trump;s
laptop, you know damn well it would have been the top story all over the place.
Instead they not only gave it little coverage but with most stories they said
that according to their "experts" it looks like a Russian plant. Meanwhile they
ignored that the current DNI who would be in the best position to know had
come out and said that US intel has nothing to indicate that the laptop is
a Russian fake. And even at the debates, they went after Trump hard.
Even the conservative radio host asked that question about the nuclear
triad, exposing that Trump didn't even know what it is. It's this unfair,
biased treatment in the media that helped Trump get elected and it
can happen again.






And they asked loads of hard questions at Hillary.
but pitch mostly softballs to Biden and Democrats.
You don't seem to have read my OP. It was about how they asked softball
questions to Maggie Greene, a Republican.

i haven't seen the media actually asking her much of anything, so I don't
know what they have asked. But they sure are hammering away at her with
clips of her chasing the HS student, tweeting Qanon BS, etc. It's non stop.



It's how Trump got
elected.
No.

Oh yes it is, Republicans are fed up with the bias.