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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:23 AM Jun 2018

How His Opponents Feed Trump's Media Machine

Froma Harrop

June 22, 2018 4:00 am

The time has come for Donald Trump’s critics to take a much-deserved vacation from all things Donald Trump. The media especially can use this time to work on dropping their compulsion to obsess on every lie, insult and provocation he crafts for their consumption. This invitation extends to participants in social media, which, after all, are media also.

It is slowly dawning on the anti-Trump camp that repeating every inanity only feeds the propaganda machine. Attaching condemnation matters not. Just typing Trump’s affronts word for word amplifies them. You know what they say about how lies replayed and replayed start being taken as truth.

George Lakoff, a linguist who advises Democrats, vents frustration at how cleverly Trump manipulates the professional media. “Trump has turned words into weapons,” he recently said, “and he’s winning the linguistic wars.”

“Journalists have been trained to repeat what officials, especially the president, (say),” Lakoff added. “What it does is keep the lies out there.”

What should traditional media do? Make clear he’s lying. Tell what the lie is. Then go back to the truth. If there are part-truths in what he’s saying, then, by all means, include them.

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How His Opponents Feed Trump's Media Machine (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP

Let's start with the bs tweets Corgigal Jun 2018 #1

You'll be saying it for many more months too, unless you can convince the Administration DonViejo Jun 2018 #2

Media still doesn't need to tells us anything about them. Corgigal Jun 2018 #3

Nonsense. eom DonViejo Jun 2018 #5

The literate and hipster world has a language of their own randr Jun 2018 #4

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)

1. Let's start with the bs tweets

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:25 AM

Jun 2018

If he's not seen saying it, it's not real. Been saying this for months, but the media must love cheap stupid stories. No one reads or believes his tweets, why report them?