It would probably be beneficial for the Department of Justice to review police practices in Milwaukee the way they did in Ferguson and Baltimore. Obviously, that's just a first step, but so far it seems to be a very important first step to rebuilding trust.

Rebuilding trust might be the major theme of the era our country is currently in...bringing it back to Trump, we desperately need to rebuild trust between the people and the media so that this kind of thing doesn't happen again. It's bad enough that Trump goes around tearing journalists down all the time, but now I'm starting to see pictures and clips of Trump supporters targeting the journalists as well. At one recent Trump rally, a man came up to the press pen afterwards and without saying a word took individual pictures of each and every journalist.

Which, first of all, is ILLEGAL. Believe me--as an editor and production assistant, a huge chunk of my job is just rounding up release forms. It is illegal to take an image of an individual without their permission unless it falls under fair use (for example, if I'm filming a protest I don't need a release form from EVERY SINGLE PERSON marching, but I would need one from anyone I filmed specifically). But more importantly, it's just creepy. I mean, there you are, a journalist, just trying to do your job and trying to pretend that you haven't been living out of a suitcase for the last year, you're standing in a tiny fenced-in area in a giant crowd of people who have just been informed that you and your kind are the worst scum of the earth, and all those people started cheering, and next thing you know some stranger is making a note of exactly what you look like.

Your first thought would have to be, why? What purpose could this possibly serve?

But eventually you'd realize that there's no logic to be found, that this was purely an act of aggression, because this guy thought the journalists might need to be shamed or exposed or revealed in the future, because he's been taught that the media lies or covers things up or WHATEVER....It doesn't even matter, because those photos will never be helpful for any of that.

Or, maybe, he took the photos because those journalists are now targets. That's another, far more worrying, possibility.

And all because Trump likes to point at the back of the room and jeer at a bunch of reporters just trying to do their fucking jobs.

Very true. The trust with media might be a bit of a toughie to me. Not sure how that would work out. No one should have their photo taken especially the journalists. With Trump running, they must all have some fear in them that they are hiding. With all the crap he's saying and hinting at no matter to who it is directed at.

I truly hope to the DoJ does investigate Milwaukee. Maybe something good might start to happen. No matter how small, at least it's a step in the right direction. A direction that things need to go in.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to improve the media. And most of the time, I think the actual reporters are doing a good job. But their work is then filtered through corporate interests and...well...

Do you watch John Oliver's show? He did a great piece about local journalism lately that I think explains things amazingly well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_wSsDwkQ

Wow. This is a really interesting article about Charlie Sykes, a conservative talk show host in Wisconsin who is realizing for the first time that a bunch of his listeners are racist....

Okay. It's actually a lot more eloquent than that, I'm just having too much of an outrage aneurysm to do it justice.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... ves-214175

Well I am really glad to hear someone out there is not going to follow the norm as it is now. Thought too many retards in WI thought Trump was a good choice, so happy that there is someone out there that won't do that.

It's rather sick that our news isn't always the full news because of other people. Not what it is supposed to be. Our founding fathers original idea is not even visible anymore I think. Sadly.

It will definitely be interesting to see how this election changes political media coverage.

I've been so sickened by the course of the election this week. Trump's so-called "outreach" to minority voters is even more offensive than his neglect of that outreach. It's not just that he's lying and rude, it's that he's ignorant. Like when he went on O'Reilly (and why is he still on TV anyway? He's a convicted domestic abuser, been accused repeatedly of sexual harassment and given the course of the Fox News scandal the longer he's on TV the worse it will be for the company in the end), and Trump said he'd do what Obama's doing to illegal immigrants only "with more energy."
Which, considering Obama's immigration policy already bends the limits of law and humanity, would be monstrous. But Trump doesn't understand what that means. Because then O'Reilly asked him about deportation forces, which Trump has mentioned, which Trump then denied, without ever realizing that there already is a deportation force called ICE.
And then the same thing happened with the idea of deportation centers. Trump's mentioned them, O'Reilly asked about them, Trump said there wouldn't be any, without realizing that there are already deportation centers. The US keeps detained undocumented immigrants in prisons all over the world, including in Australia and Papau New Guinea where these people are held for years and tortured before being returned to their country of origin, if they're ever returned at all.

It's all just so ignorant. I can't stand it.

How the fuck does he not know this shit??? Seriously I knew of ICE and the centers. Didn't know about the torture; jesus christ that is beyond wrong. No one should be put through hell just trying to get into a country. .... I had no idea and am sickened by that. ... I had no idea that Obama was putting a strong stop on the immigrants into this country. ; ; I feel so bad for everyone now. It's so sick. Makes you want to cry. And jesus christ why can't Trump just die or something.

So tomorrow I'm going to New Hampshire to canvass for the Clinton campaign. I'm putting my personal misgivings about her to the side, because this election isn't about me as an individual, but rather it's about everyone. And I think that's a decision I can stand behind from a moral point of view, but I'm still nervous.

I wish you the best of luck hun. Stay safe. Can't wait to hear what you all see and hear~

The first debate is about to start......
.........dear god........................................................