Politics The 4th Estate - Media....is it truth or fiction? TFP pundits will examine.

They have a valid point.
The presidents in the past had figured out how to defang the press.
It took years of careful work and learning from their mistakes (Vietnam for example) but the White House had pretty much got down how to, in general, make the press dance to their tune.
Trump and his crew don't seem to understand any of that.
They have tossed all the tricks and psychological massaging that has been developed over the years by both Democrats and Republicans to make an enemy out of the bulk of the press core.
Having only Fox (and then only sometimes) and the outliers like Breitbart/Infowars on your side doesn't work.

 

Yep, Battle Royal is right. Looks like they aren't making a secret of it either. The media is now the official opposition party.

Bannon: Media should 'keep its mouth shut'

 

This morning some of the talking news media heads were comparing The Donald to Tricky Dicky.

I had the same thoughts when shitbrain was elected.

 

I really don't think he is as smart as Nixon.
Nixon did things like start the EPA because he recognized the need to protect the environment.
The man was a paranoid, racist, evil, smuck, but he wasn't stupid.
Trump has street smarts but he doesn't have political smarts or the attention span of a gnat.
I have tried time and again to avoid the word stupid.
Even George W. wasn't stupid, he was average, a C student.
I still don't want C students leading this country.
I was a B student and I don't think I should be leading the country.
Trump was at best an average student.
Maybe he did well in the classes that interested him but I'm willing to bet he skated in the rest.

 

They were talking mostly about the news media battles Nixon had, and the ones shitbrain is having & will continue to have.

I do agree that Nixon was much smarter than shitbrain, but there are/will be many parallels between the two. Namely egos, & claiming executive privilege, IMO.

 

It's bad. IMO the death of small town newspapers is a major reason why the media missed Trump's support in rural areas. I'm leaving out televised news media because they have pretty much always concentrated on the large cities. Many stories covered by small local newspapers would never make it onto TV, unless the stories were big (deciding what's newsworthy could be whole different discussion). Sending reporters out to small towns and rural areas during a political campaign isn't the same as having reporters who actually live & work in those areas.

IIRC there were news reports where people in less populated areas admitted to very intentionally misleading reporters. I believe it because of the number of (supposedly?) undecided voters in the last presidential campaign.

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Ratings and profit.

The façade of prestige.

In the televised news media, hammering guests on a regular basis means people start turning down invitations to appear on the news programs where they're likely to get hammered.

What will people--in general--want to watch, a political reporter explaining that a certain Important Person In Politics (IPIP) declined the invitation to appear, or the IPIP making an appearance on another program?

 

The nerd prom is tonight. I have a feeling it should be quite interesting to watch.

 

They didn't go after Trump as much as they could have, but they promoted good journalism that would expose the corruption and lies to find out the truth, and there was enough comedy by Hassan to make it worth it. And he didn't hold back on going after the media outlets there either.