They lost the benefit of a doubt years ago

You didn't give any specific examples, but when a story breaks social media is sometimes all that's available. Such information will be noted as such. Reporters know that social media is not the best source.

They are perfectly aware how full of shit this administration is. They have zero compunction behaving as stenographers and amplifiers of that bullshit. They judge it to be in their interests to do so.

They are not dumb, or oblivious, or confused. They are purposeful, and deliberate, and knowing.

Treat their work product accordingly.

or maybe I was being slightly tongue in cheek. I do agree that they are pretending not to know that the info coming from this administration should be fact checked relentlessly before it is reported.

was extremely complicit in bringing the Repubs/Trump to where they are today.......AND KEEPING HIM THERE for their own special interests and Uber rich oligarchs and keeping the top 1%ers in place and prospering immensely every day.............

Of course, it depends on the source, but the so-called "legacy media" do care and vet things pretty thoroughly most of the time. Sure things fall through the cracks, but not usually.

Again it depends on the source. I wish threads like this would be more specific than just generally whining about the media. Donald Trump thanks you for threads like this.

(maybe much longer - Watergate, the Iran-Contra scam ...)

This is anything but a new phenomenon.

Since Jan 20, 2025.

Legitimately. Period!

WHO TRUSTS THE CORPORATE MEDIA

Would you rather go with the fox propaganda channel? Of course not. It depends on the source we're referring to, but I'll take the NY Times and Washington Post over a lot of others.

This only happened a few hours ago and they are already releasing evidence to the press?

what my cats tell me before I trust FBI or coprolite media. Cats are asleep just now, just as are the meeja. Gods know what FBI is.

Was it this?

https://democraticunderground.com/10143536017

Last I heard.

Letter here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10114551#post2

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Mr. Kimmel rightfully made no assertions about the political ideology of the shooter because that ideology is not known. As Nathan Taylor Pemberton pointed out in his Sept 14, New York Times Guest Essay, Charlie Kirk's Killing and Our Poisonous Internet, "The only thing that can be said conclusively about Mr. Robinson, at this moment, is that he was a chronically online, white American male." And, as Elle Reeve, a highly regarded investigative journalist with expertise on social media's role in extremism warns us, "Be careful trying to decipher the true political beliefs of people wrapped in so many layers of irony they're not sure of their own true beliefs."
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Robinson was brought up in a family & community group who were awfully comfortable with, if not crazy about, guns.

Keep in mind the old saying that to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

From Wikipedia
Before joining CNN as a correspondent in 2019, she reported on the 2017 white-nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia for HBO's Vice News Tonight. Reeve and Vice News Tonight won a Peabody Award, four Emmy Awards, and a George Polk Award for their reporting.

A PBS interview last year:
https://www.pbs.org/video/author-elle-reeve-gives-her-perspective-on-white-nationalism-wdktkq/

And her post on Twitter/x

Link to tweet

Without them, there would be no Trump presidency. Real journalists have been working their asses off reporting on Trump's sins. Ignore the opinion columns. Those are that -- opinion. Two of my favorite reporters are Carol Leonnig and Maggie Haberman. They've been doing a great job.

Remember, too, that Trump is trying to make you distrust them with all his ranting and raving about the press being the enemy of the people. That crap fits his game -- to make him the best source of information. That's what an authoritarian does.