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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Trump Lies to Undermine the News Media
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Andrew Sullivan: And he lied, of course. And I dont mean in the speech itself. He lied directly to the faces of the media muckety-mucks that afternoon, telling them that he was going to embrace some kind of immigration reform. For a few hours, much of the press duly reported this until they heard the speech itself, which did no such thing. The lie, we were told, was a misdirection, in order to get some favorable coverage from the media that afternoon.
But think about that for a minute. This wasnt a trial balloon, delivered by some anonymous sources to see the impact of a potential policy. This wasnt even a defensible fib, for national-security reasons. It was an outright lie from the president himself in order to delegitimize the press. If the New York Times or the evening news reports something completely untrue indeed refuted just a few hours later what happens to their credibility? Bannon is not kidding when he describes the free press as the opposition. For shameless demagogues, it always is. And this creepily authoritarian administration will happily lie to its face.
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How Trump Lies to Undermine the News Media (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2017
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. How long will the corporatized media continue to accept this?
In the ratings driven rush to be first with the story, I predict that the corporate media will allow itself to be constantly used in this way.
jrthin
(4,836 posts)3. I agree. NYT's and other news
outlets subscriptions have tripled since the TURD selection: more advertising dollars. This in boom time for them. As Les Moonves (spell check), President of CBS said, "Trump is bad for democracy, but good for us."
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Well,they bought this hook line and sinker.
If they suspected the Sucker was lying,then they did not do their jobs by calling him out.