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>.
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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).