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Stinky The Clown

(67,823 posts) Sat Aug 22, 2015, 11:09 AM Aug 2015

Will the media turn?

Trump is a ratings bonanza for cablenooz. The networks cover him too, albeit a little less breathlessly.

He's a media guy who knows how that game is played and he is really good at it. But he is also not the choice of the powers that be. You know. The people who actually own the media.

Can you see a time when the media will begin to (at least try) to take him down? Right now there is pretty much no stopping him from sucking all the air out of the airways, but soon enough something new will catch the sheeple's attention.

And then what?

Will the media finally turn on him?

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Will the media turn? (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Aug 2015 OP

My question is...what motivated the media to turn it on? Not just ratings....there is an agenda far Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #1

Fox already tried to take him down... lame54 Aug 2015 #2

I disagree. Fox is biding their time...lots of time to go! Fox has mostly ignored Trump - because maybe CNN took up the slack? Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #3

tRump is a Brand name now olddots Aug 2015 #4

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. My question is...what motivated the media to turn it on? Not just ratings....there is an agenda far

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 11:12 AM

Aug 2015

more sinister and far more dangerous than pursuing ratings....the mass media did not lie and forward obvious lies about the Iraq war just for ratings...same with the fake Ebola fear-mongering.

The mass media is as much the enemy as the fascist GOP.

lame54

(35,328 posts)

2. Fox already tried to take him down...

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 11:27 AM

Aug 2015

With Meghan Kelly's loaded question
But their viewers turned on them
Now they are best buds

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. I disagree. Fox is biding their time...lots of time to go! Fox has mostly ignored Trump - because maybe CNN took up the slack?

Reply to lame54 (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 12:00 PM

Aug 2015

This is their first mention of Trump on their website in days.

"BILLIONAIRE PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL'S call to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants refuels immigration debate while splitting the Republican field and legal experts who question whether such a change to the 14th Amendment is possible."

Not very supportive of a BFF, I would say

olddots

(10,237 posts)

4. tRump is a Brand name now

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 12:11 PM

Aug 2015

he will have to replaced with something even more grotesque than The Ronny .

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