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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 10:47 AM Mar 2016

Why The Hell Is The Corporate Media Bowing Down to Trump?



Many of the Republican candidates have been given a free pass by the corporate media, but no one has benefited more from the corporate media than Donald Trump. In addition to getting a pass for his behavior both past and present, Trump is actually allowed to call the shots and set the terms for his interviews.
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bigworld

(1,807 posts)
1. Because he does bring them ratings
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 10:50 AM
Mar 2016

You make him angry, he won't appear on your show. And if you're a media outlet you can't afford to piss him off. He knows just what he is doing .

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
2. Complete speculation, but he has experience in the television business from which he may have
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 10:56 AM
Mar 2016

learned a few tricks about leveraging the networks that the other Republicans don't know.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
4. $$$$ "Les Moonves: Trump's run is 'damn good for CBS'"
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:02 AM
Mar 2016

Donald Trump’s candidacy might not be making America great, CBS Chairman Les Moonves said Monday, but it’s great for his company.
"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS," Moonves said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, according to The Hollywood Reporter — perfectly distilling what media critics have long suspected was motivating the round-the-clock coverage of Trump's presidential bid.
"Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates," Moonves said, noting, "[t]here's a lot of money in the marketplace."


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-trump-cbs-220001#ixzz43SJEOwya
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SamKnause

(13,043 posts)
6. Do you really have to ask ???
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:06 AM
Mar 2016

Les Moonves chief executive of CBS, "It may not be good for America,

but it's damn good for CBS".

"The money's rolling in, this is fun."

 

vi5

(13,305 posts)
7. I don't get why the left/Dems are trying to bring down Trump
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:27 AM
Mar 2016

I honestly don't see a licks worth of difference between what his policies would do to the country over any of the other Republican candidates. The only difference is rather than doing it in the shadows with vaguely worded legislation, he's upfront and vocal about his racism.

The biggest difference is that he will get slaughtered in the GE, by either of our candidates.

My biggest fear is honestly if the Republicans succeed in blocking Trump from getting the nomination, that whoever they end up nominating is going to seem so reasonable and sane by comparison that they will have an easier time in the GE against either of our candidates.

As far as I'm concerned we should be letting this thing play itself out among the Republicans and then just reap the benefits of their internal disaster.

jalan48

(13,798 posts)
9. Perhaps the problem is that we are viewing Trump and the media as independent from one another,
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:59 AM
Mar 2016

when in reality the media is working to promote specific candidates for us to choose from. Moneyed interests are running our mainstream media (television especially); this isn't some system from the 1950's where reporters scurry around trying to get to the bottom of the story. It's determined beforehand what the "issues" are to be and how the debate about those issues is to be framed. Trump was an afterthought a year ago and yet he has been tirelessly promoted to the American public beginning last summer. The media didn't have to do this, they chose to do this and in so doing allowed the issues to be framed Trump's way. They created Trump, why?

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