Category: Media

Trump wants people to go on TV to encourage him to fire Mueller

Everything for Trump is based on what’s on TV.  In this case, he tries to manipulate the coverage but Fox News is already his equivalent of Russia’s RT. He should just move the Fox News studio into the White House and cut out the TV set.

Laura Ingraham learns there are consequences for vindictive tweets

Good for David Hogg for fighting back against Laura Ingraham’s cheap insults by listing  her advertisersand advising his followers to contact them.  At least 15 companies have pulled their ads from her show.

Ingraham has apologized but Hogg rejected it.

It’s not surprising that Russian bots are supporting Ingraham on Twitter.

Sad!

updates: The right’s sliming of David Hogg

Sinclair TV host resigns after vulgar comment about David Hogg

26 sponsors have pulled ads

Update 10/16/18:

Big advertisers still shunning Ingraham’s Fox News

Sinclair’s pro-Trump propaganda

Sinclair is forcing their local stations to air promos which are pro-Trump propanganda.  Here’s a good overview of the situation. 

This is a good overview of Sinclair’s network of stations in red states, their campaign agreement with Trump in 2016, and Trump’s endorsement of Sinclair.

Deadspin put together a video showing how identical the promos are.

“Trump tweets away what’s left of Sinclair’s credibility” according to the Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawick.

The right wing now has a vast propaganda machine starting with the White House.

 

 

77% believe that media outlets report “fake news”

Trump is winning on this one.  A recent poll shows that 77% believe that the media reports “fake news”.  I don’t think so.   I think the media makes rare mistakes and acknowledges them.  (However, Fox has not held anyone accountable for their fake Seth Rich murder story.)

Trump has put the media in a bad position.  He lies multiple times every day.  If the media points out that what he says isn’t true, then it looks like they’re anti-Trump, especially since they have to do it so often.

If they don’t point it out, then they are just passing along lies.  There was a Washington Post article last year that compared it to basketball fouls but I have thought it’s like football.  Referees could call pass interference on virtually every pass play but then it would look like they are biased.

What would make Trump stop lying?  I thought of something but the media would never do it.   They could carry Trump’s rants (aka speeches) on tape delay and not broadcast the lies.  Of course, that would make for very short broadcasts.  Trump has to be held accountable for his lies and it hasn’t been done.  Instead, he has made it seem like the media outlets are lying.  Sad!