2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOn CNN just now: All media pool participants just pulled their photographers
from the tour of the hotel after the pool producer was physically restrained from participating. The protocol is that there is always a producer or reporter with photographers or else it turns into an infomercial. So they pulled the photographers and will not release any photos. The media did a big ol' fuck you to Donald. They are now showing video of Trump bragging about leaving the media behind on the plane and talking about how great that is.
Ashleigh Banfield is really on a rant.
EV_Ares
(6,587 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)NBachers
(17,120 posts)EV_Ares
(6,587 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)while shrieking hysterical about emails and Clinton Foundation conspiracies with a dash of "concern" about Hillary's health.
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)Not for the state of the race, she is still ahead, but for the coverage he's going to get going forward. This was disgraceful and shameful and it just put his bigotry under the spotlight.
Huge miscalculation on his part and it will be an issue in the debates coming up.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)I'll believe it when I see it. Individual reporters may be p*ssed, but until the bosses are, too, I don't think anything's going to change.
LibraLiz1973
(8,197 posts)They lick this assholes taint and I am sick of it. They need to stop giving him air time and stop following him.
He fucking hates the press
ALMOST as much as he hates America. And anyone of color. And women. And LGBTQ citizens. And Mexicans. And rationality.
Oh.
I almost forgot.
And facts.
Kber
(5,043 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)who are actually "buying the ink by the barrell" are the very same jerkoffs who got us here. The proof is right here:
https://soundcloud.com/firstlookmedia/les-moonves
This is not an anomaly. This is the way the "ink purchasers" feel. Whether they know or not the forces they've helped unleash doesn't even matter anymore.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)A big bingo! It's all about making the media some big Money. That's all the press is about now.
Thx for posting this.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Trump's been leaving people behind his whole career.
Guess it only matters when it happens to you. Huh.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)He's walking roughshod over them.
B2G
(9,766 posts)simply because they detest the media.
I mean, look at all of the anti-media threads at DU.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)the concept of media, but against the poor performance and credulousness of our mainstream media with respect to this election. Trump and his supporters don't like the idea of a free press, period, because they don't think it's "fair" for them to be able to criticize him. It's the difference between wanting fair and objective reporting and wanting reporting that is never critical, and that's a huge difference.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)But Republican voters are even more distrustful. As you said its because "they don't think it's "fair" for them to be able to criticize him" And also they have been conditioned to think that the media is in the tank for Hillary, and that they haven't done enough on Benghazi, or emails, or the Clinton Foundation!
So what that means is that Trump knows he can't really lose with that stunt. In fact he will probably get praise by his supporters. And soon enough, after CNN realizes that he has called the bluff that they thought they were calling, they will be groveling back.
calimary
(81,314 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)"Fair and balanced" to them means all RW talking points all the time. The well-funded, massive RW propaganda campaign has been very successful in getting a helluvalot of people to believe a helluvalot of BS, and this is one of their founding principles: anyone who disagrees with what we (the RW media) tells you is lying, unfair, or just plain crazy.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Seriously, are you going to vote for Trump?
B2G
(9,766 posts)I'm simply stating the obvious.
Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low
http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I read your posts, so I can see it going a lot of ways. Interesting that you didn't answer straight, though.
B2G
(9,766 posts)I am not as completely enthralled with Hillary as most on here, but I'll do what I have to do.
Better? Do I need to fax you a copy of my voter registration card to put your mind at ease?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I thought some of Trump's positions on race would appeal to you.
Ultimately, I don't really care what you do, so don't get too worked up.
B2G
(9,766 posts)revbones
(3,660 posts)Weird how that works huh?
B2G
(9,766 posts)It's Wonderland in here sometimes.
revbones
(3,660 posts)revbones
(3,660 posts)Effusive praise is all people can take around here.
B2G
(9,766 posts)revbones
(3,660 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Deal with it.
revbones
(3,660 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)revbones
(3,660 posts)Either way, it's weird to see such deliberate misinterpretation. I hesitate to ask, but how are either of those "peeing on everything due to sour grapes"? And are you still on the "carrying water for Trump" deal or is that the water you're talking about?
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)You can spot them from their concern.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Seems like you prefer them to sleep in the job?
B2G
(9,766 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)How they have been a party for Trump's shenanigans for a long time now.
Having trouble following along, or just like rude outbursts?
B2G
(9,766 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)What's your next act?
B2G
(9,766 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Fake outrage.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Don disses the press - press gets pissed off - no more photos and poor press releases - Don blames the "liberal" press - Press covers Don more - Don's basket case public sees the press as being hostile which reinforces their support of Don, etc., etc. , etc.
The press cannot win on this.
JSup
(740 posts)...really knows how to string the media along. He's like the pied friggin piper, leading them to their death. Have they wizened up? Let's hope.
RandySF
(58,899 posts)Until they earn my respect back.
curiouso
(57 posts)Is it possible that the media is finally getting a clue - that maybe Trump says and does dumb things just to keep the spotlight on himself because those he appeals to don't give a damn how stupid he looks and acts?
Whatever he does is for publicity, to keep the cameras on him and off of the issues.
Tomorrow he'll contradict whatever he says today because the media will flock to wherever he says it or does it and make a big deal out of it and spend precious air time demonstrating for their audiences that he's manipulating them when in fact it's the media he's manipulating.
Here's an idea: Instead of wasting so much air time letting him make ridiculous statements, why not spend two minutes showing no film of him but simply reporting: "Here are candidate Trump's contradictions for today" or "Here's who candidate Trump slandered today" and concluding with: "Here is the issue his opponent discussed and her position on it, which candidate Trump has avoided any mention of ..." Then tell us Hillary Clinton's position on the issue du jour and what - if anything - Trump has said about it.
Oh, that's right, the media would never do something that radical because they'd be accused of liberal bias and would lose ratings because Americans don't really care about issues.
What Americans want to see is political car wrecks.
Issues?
Those are only bitching points and are reserved for the time between elections.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)If this is how I treat you when I'm running for office and trying to stay on your good side,
imagine how I'll treat you when I am President.
Love,
the Don
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)butch of them.
avebury
(10,952 posts)US MSM are dumber than a sack of rocks.
They may be trying to turn the election into a horse race but they had better start thinking about how a President Trump would tream them if they help put him in the WH.
Most of us on DU could have predicted today's outcome.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)But it really makes you wonder how these folks got so stupid and gullible.
LibraLiz1973
(8,197 posts)WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY ALL EXPECT?
This asshole is a lying sack of dogshit.
Was Donnie boy ever going to play from a straight deck?