In its full statement, CNN said Sanders âliedâ
The tide has turned. Do the Trumpanzees realize how much dirt the press has on MANGOTUS?
Do they care? (See ârhetorical questionâ, definition of.)
What can we expect, having elected a comic book villain? More of the same. Much more.
I agree with Ana Navarro. Trump is going to get someone killed.
And if he does, the right wing will only celebrate.
Mr. Classless has recently posted an edited version of his 2007 video of WWE event, that someone altered to put CNN on the face. That is violence and a public attack on the Press / freedom of the press.
http://time.com/4843303/donald-trump-twitter-cnn-video/?utm_campaign=time&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=time_socialflow_twitterRemember when we used to think the whole idea of a media obsessed wrestler as president was a hilarious parody? And today we have President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho Trump.
That is a vile slander. No comic book villain would act like Trump. Even the insane ones are not nearly so stupid.
Honest to God President Camacho was quite a bit more rational, more willing to respond thoughtfully to new situations, than Trump will ever be. Totally serious.
Good to see CNN isnât taking this lying down.
While Trump has a significant platform as President, still not a good idea to pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. And the media, with a few outliers, will circle the wagons. This will see this as a threat to their mission, which is to bring the truth to the American people.
Itâs past time to get serious about journalism, and get the entertainment aspect out of the news. Stop covering Trump for clicks and ratings. Full-on investigative and truthful reporting.
Youâre about 50 years behind the times. Bringing the truth to the American people may have been their mission as late as 1980, but since then the mission has shifted to making money for their parent company. The media informing the people of the truth as a public service has been replaced by the media providing the people with garish entertainment in search of advertising dollars.
The Modern Mediascape: Original Synergy
Todayâs media has recovered from its mid-70s bout of temporary insanity. Newspapers abound, and though they have endured decades of decline in readership and influence, they can still form impressive piles if no one takes them out to the trash. The radio star, allegedly killed by video in 1981, staged a comeback in the 1980s as the mediumâs abandoned husk was recolonized as an outpost for the paranoid and partisan. It now exists as a pacifier, reassuring the aggrieved that the governmentâs recognition of Kwanzaa really is the reason their lives suck. It also helps cab drivers learn English ⌠very angry English.
Television continues to thrive. One fifteen-minute nightly newscast, barely visible through the smoky haze of its cigarette company benefactor, has evolved into a multi-channel, twenty-four hour a day infotastic clusterfuck of factish-like material. The 1990s brought the advent of a dynamic new medium for news, the Internet, a magnificent new technology combining the credibility of anonymous hearsay with the excitement of typing.
But the most important factor in the rehabilitation of our national media came not from the editorial room but a more unlikely source: the board room.
The Media and Washington: Pas de Duh
Enter the mediaâs white knight: corporate ownership. During the 1980s, corporations began to bail out our democracy by purchasing as many guerrilla newspaper, radio, and television stations as they could. These mega-corporations became known as âparent companiesâ because of their patient, nuturing tendencies and for the way they sat the media down and told it, âHey youâre over two hundred years old now ⌠isnât it about time you settled down and made some money?â Thousands of uncontrollable, perilously independent media voices were finally organized into a more manageable five. And while it may be illegal for one company to own every newpaper, TV and radio station in a particular town, Rupert Murdochâs not dead yet.
Now, more secure in their relationship, government and the media are entering a golden age of harmony, aiding each other whenever possible. Lawmakers recognize that counterbalancing their excesses is a lot of work. So todayâs government officials, aware of the intense deadline pressure of he 24-hour news cycle, are kind enough to send their media colleagues hard news, known as âpress releasesâ or âleaks,â to be read verbatim on air. The benefits of this are twofold: The public remains informed of the good things the government is up to, and the media is freed up to use its entire arsenal for the next photogenic childâs disappearance.
âJon Stewart, âAmerica (the Book). A Citizenâs Guide to Democracy Inactionâ, pp. 151-54
I hear what youâre saying, but believing all media are sell outs for dollars and therefore none are believable is exactly what allows real âfake newsâ to walk through the door.
Not all media is the same. Some truly do value objective truth more than others. And itâs incumbent upon us to seek those sources out or at least to pay attention to multiple sources in order to arrive as close to the facts as possible. Certainly, there is a âbuyer bewareâ component out there, but we still need to find a way through this morass.
Itâs probably one of the reasons weâre on TPM. Itâs an independent site run by knowledgeable, intelligent, fair-minded people, imo. I have a high degree of trust in their editorial judgements.
Trumpâs attacks on the media are deeply corrosive and completely indefensible. But theyâre also part of the self-distraction and lack of focus and shooting himself in the foot that have helped prevent him from accomplishing much.
So while in theory it should be a good thing for a president to stop engaging in petty nonsense and âstart doing his job,â in reality if this president started to show more discipline and focus and actually started âgetting stuff done,â this would likely yield even worse results for the country.
Still, Iâm not exactly cheerleading for more media-bashing, as heâs doing profound damage to the country that way as well. I guess the best case scenario is that both his agenda and his horrible style of bullying âleadershipâ will be roundly rejected as the GOP gets crushed in the mid term and Trump loses in a landslide in 2020. Because if enough voters actually reward this behavior by keeping the GOP in power in Congress and re-electing Trump, then the race to the bottom will get underway in earnest â and the kind of extreme rhetoric we hear from Trump now, may seem mild compared to what weâll be hearing in the future.
And the next authoritarian right winger to seize control may not be as unfocused and incompetent as Trump.
âWe will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his.â
He CANâT do the job. He has no idea how to do the job. Please stop pretending that he is avoiding something for which he has zero capacity. UNQUALIFIED, period.
Heâll be gone by then.
Count on it. Weâre actually lucky in a tiny way. Yea, thatâs even hard to write.
Trump is doing his job.
He is being the best flaming asshole he can be.
I seem to remember some CNN Honcho defending their coverage of Donald during the election by âHe is good for ratingsâ.
If that is correct, I think CNN deserves whatever it getsâŚ
Trump is all about re-defining the presidency to what He wants it to be, and what He is willing to do. Dew? Doo-doo? Duh?