Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by roywiggins on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:11PM
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It's -possible- this is an intentional strategy: people who want to believe the administration are peeled away from news media that aren't 100% in line with the administration's agenda. If you like Trump and want to believe what he says, reading the NYT has got to be an exercise in frustration.
Once all remaining supporters don't watch any media that isn't Trump Approved(TM), they're locked in permanently.
Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by gizmo686 on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:18PM
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There is another potential strategy: attack the concept of honesty. If we get to a point where a significant portion of the population believes everyone, media and Trump, are lying then Trump has much more reign to do what he wants because any reporting on it will instinctively be branded as a lie. So will Trump's defense, but the net result is still a win over believed reporting on <bad thing>.
Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by tempodox on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:57PM
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> attack the concept of honesty.
This. When others are lying, they make a “decent” effort to hide that fact, while Trump doesn't even try. The resulting confusion, when everyone is fighting over who lied about what, is one of his most effective weapons. People are distracted, cachink, goal achieved.
Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by dukeluke on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:37PM
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What makes things difficult is that the legitimacy of corporate media was seriously in question before Trump was elected. There seems to have been massive collusion between the mainstream media & the DNC to keep Bernie Sanders a fringe candidate. And it's tough to say "the mainstream media is rigged, but a president saying so openly is bad."
Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by roywiggins on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:47PM
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"Massive" is overselling it, unless there's a large body of evidence that I missed (which, given my preoccupation with Trump, would not be impossible).
Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by Sunset on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:40PM
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Trump did not force the media to be douche canoes for years on years.
Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by mcphage on Friday February 24, 2017 @06:39PM
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Not did the media force Trump to lie continuously, yet here we are.
Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by simplemath on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:16PM
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It's the annihilation of truth and its terrifying.
Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by iamatworknow on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:01PM
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I genuinely believe that we are entering the "disinformation age".
Re:White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
by rhcom2 on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:08PM
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While I'm firmly in category A I'm not sure that is a fair comparison because the NYT is a huge organization that could very well have employees set on spreading as much biased, misleading or overblown news they could to hurt Trump politically. Also there is the news part of the NYT and the editorial which could have different quality.
I'm not saying you're wrong, just that it might not be that simple.
There is no middle ground where NYT is being fair, and Trump is being reasonable. This means that any reasonable person with a position on this issue must take at least one of the two extremes.