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Trump's relationship with the media.

6079_Smith_W
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January 24, 2017 - 8:27am

I heard a piece on CBC last night about Trump using the press as a prop during his speeches - pointing at them and telling the crowd they were against him and lying to them.

CNN decided over the weekend to no longer run white house press conferences live because they want corroboration before running stuff that might be lies (I posted that piece in the Trump Administration thread)

Now two journalists - one from Vocativ and one from RT America - have been arrested and charged with felony riot charges for covering the inauguration. One of them had his camera taken by police.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/23/two-journalists-trump-in...

I'd post this as a spot piece, but I don't think this is going to be the last story on this topic.

 


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6079_Smith_W
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January 24, 2017 - 11:30am
#1

Well this is timely. Jenifer Ditchburn's take on the Harper years as it relates to Donald Trump:

http://www.poynter.org/2017/trump-vs-the-media-canadian-deja-vu/446279/


Michael Moriarity
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January 24, 2017 - 2:08pm
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Josh Marshall reports that the Trump White House is already much more leaky than Obama's ever was.

Josh Marshall wrote:
The Trump White House not only leaks like crazy. It casually leaks the most intimate and humiliating details about the President - hurt feelings, ego injury, childlike behavior, self-destructive rages over tweets, media failure to credit his own grandiosity. We have simply never seen this level of leaking, with this little respect for the President's dignity or reputation, this early.
I can't imagine that this will make relations between Trump and the press any more cordial.


josh
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January 24, 2017 - 2:20pm
#3

Trump doesn't mind leaks.


alan smithee
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January 24, 2017 - 2:54pm
#4

Leaks get him off.


kropotkin1951
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January 24, 2017 - 4:25pm
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I endured Harper to only see him replaced with Trudeau.  Nice smile but same misinformation and half truths in support of the same agenda.  I also live in BC and frankly Trump will have to go a ways before he reaches Clark's level of deliberate deceit in pursuit of hoodwinking the people into ignoring the theft of the public purse being committed by their corporate buddies. 


josh
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January 24, 2017 - 4:38pm
#6

Right.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/24/wh-spokesman-spicer-wont-give-evidence-to-back-trumps-claim-that-millions-voted-illegally.html


6079_Smith_W
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January 24, 2017 - 8:16pm
#7

Four more journalists charged working on inauguration day.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/24/journalists-charged-feloni...


bekayne
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January 26, 2017 - 6:13pm
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josh
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January 26, 2017 - 6:16pm
#9

Bannon to media: shut up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-n...


Misfit
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January 26, 2017 - 6:40pm
#10
Maybe the piranhas will eat Ann Coulter.

Michael Moriarity
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January 26, 2017 - 10:20pm
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Misfit wrote:
Maybe the piranhas will eat Ann Coulter.
More likely the reverse. Laughing


Misfit
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January 26, 2017 - 11:59pm
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Poor piranhas.

6079_Smith_W
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February 13, 2017 - 10:20am
#13

Border agents try to search WSJ reporter's phones.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/21/media/wall-street-journal-reporter-phone...

 

 


bekayne
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February 15, 2017 - 11:48am
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/fake-news-gateway-pundit-...

Gateway Pundit, a conservative site known for spreading hoaxes, has hit the big time under President Trump.


abnormal
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February 15, 2017 - 12:23pm
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6079_Smith_W wrote:
Border agents try to search WSJ reporter's phones.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/21/media/wall-street-journal-reporter-phone-feds/index.html

That story actually dates to the middle of last year (before the election) but this is more recent

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/a-nasa-engineer-i...

 


6079_Smith_W
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February 15, 2017 - 12:37pm
#16

Thx. Oops.

I was kind of wondering how she managed to get away.


6079_Smith_W
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February 15, 2017 - 1:51pm
#17

Brilliant piece by John Oliver.Watch the whole thing.

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/02/john-oliver-educate-donald-trum...

 


josh
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February 15, 2017 - 2:18pm
#18

Michelle Kosinski ‏@MichLKosinski

The two outlets called on today in Trump's presser: Christian Broadcasting Network, and a conservative blog. 

 

 


josh
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February 16, 2017 - 7:04pm
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Kudos to probably the only honest voice on Fox.

https://mobile.twitter.com/passantino/status/832338172478500864/video/1


alan smithee
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February 16, 2017 - 7:25pm
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Shepard Smith is probably the only fair and balanced anchor on Fox. (not sure that means anything) He's been on the ball a few times. Even Morning Joe is a reasonable Republican.


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