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pnwmom

(108,994 posts)
Wed May 4, 2016, 08:55 PM May 2016

538: the media gave Trump a big assist with $2 billion worth of free advertising.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-republican-voters-decided-on-trump/

To take the last one first, it’s irresponsible to reflect on Trump’s candidacy without considering the unprecedented way in which he dominated media coverage from the beginning of his campaign, which was worth the equivalent of $2 billion in paid advertising. Any time a demagogic candidate wins a nomination, it suggests a potential failure of political institutions, including (but not limited to) the media. This is something I’ve written about a lot from the earliest points of the campaign, so we’ll move along for now.
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538: the media gave Trump a big assist with $2 billion worth of free advertising. (Original Post) pnwmom May 2016 OP
i expect the same in the general election...we'll have to beat trump AND the media spanone May 2016 #1
There will be Trump fatigue at a certain point ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2016 #3
I had Trump fatigue after the first two hours thecrow May 2016 #8
Was it the president of CBS who said octoberlib May 2016 #2
What made Trump so potent was his willingness to show up anywhere anytime for an interview Renew Deal May 2016 #4
They also gave Clinton a huge assist including attacking her opponent. Skwmom May 2016 #5
Trump will be in re-runs by Fall... JCMach1 May 2016 #6
Having grown up in Los Angeles, I was never impressed with celebrity. politicaljunkie41910 May 2016 #7

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
3. There will be Trump fatigue at a certain point
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:00 PM
May 2016

He's going to have to up the ante and say more outrageous things and that's not likely.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
2. Was it the president of CBS who said
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:00 PM
May 2016

"Trump may not be good for our country but he's great for our bottom line" or something like that. This is what worries me about the GE. TrumpTV 24/7.

Renew Deal

(81,871 posts)
4. What made Trump so potent was his willingness to show up anywhere anytime for an interview
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:02 PM
May 2016

Most candidates are too afraid to even speak to the press.

He also had the advantage of celebrity and the willingness to take the most logically extreme position in front of the most extreme people.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
7. Having grown up in Los Angeles, I was never impressed with celebrity.
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:27 PM
May 2016

Having grown up poor and black in LA, I had the benefit of a Catholic school education. The studios were always filming episodes of their TV shows at their Hollywood studios and needed the benefit of a live studio audience. They would send a bus to pick up our students because they could count on us to behave. They almost always rewarded us prior to the taking with a pizza party, and they always gave away a small prize (but a prize nonetheless) to the studio audience. So I always signed up to go. So you get to meet a lot of celebrities over the four years of high school, and you watch them during their performance and between breaks and their luster seems to fade easily over time. Not that they were bad people or anything, they just came across during filming as normal people. I grew up thinking, they are just like me. How naive of me, to think that there was no difference between their lives and mine based on what I saw in that small sound studio, but not knowing any better, and having no personal knowledge of their off camera activities, it was only much later that I learned how poor we actually were and how rich they were. But by then, it was too late. I had grown accustomed to seeing celebs on a frequent basis, and I just assumed we had more in common than we had differences. Also, in spite of our 'poorness' our mother made sure that we were introduced to culture which LA had plenty of (museums and shows at the Music Center) and much of it was free and she put us into programs like dance, girls scout, and volunteer work, that kept us busy and exposed to many different things.

To this day I cannot bring myself to get excited over seeing a celebrity in person.

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