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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Washington Post has a report today asking why are we only hearing about Trump's involvement with
a porn star now? Reporters from ABC, Fox, and others were pursuing this story, yet no one went with it, even though it was right on the heels of multiple sexual assault allegations against Trump, and the controversy of his "Access Hollywood" vulgar remarks.
The "Journalists say they held back because they couldnt independently corroborate key elements of Danielss account, including in one instance from Daniels herself. The story, in other words, failed to rise to journalistic standards, never mind that it involved a man who regularly attacks the news media for lacking standards."
Journalistic standards? what a crock
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Cattledog
(5,916 posts)If this was BC instead of DT in 2016 it would have been front page news.
Orrex
(63,216 posts)If she'd paid to cover up a tryst with a male porn star, does anyone doubt that the story would be saturating the airwaves 24/7?
But if it's Trump? Meh.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)And Hillary would have been expected to answer for her husband's behavior.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)her opinion about this story?
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)She is pure to wingnuts.
They won't say a word about her or to her. And neither will any journalist or reporter. Besides, she is having affairs of her own.
yardwork
(61,650 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)What's sauce for the goose . . . .
yardwork
(61,650 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)Because it will be talked about through the news outlets and we're now living in a post-weinstein period. So the conversation will be very different.
DBoon
(22,369 posts)nt
underpants
(182,829 posts)and apparently Stormy sat on Donald - he only f's up
CatMor
(6,212 posts)involvement when the others did.
still_one
(92,219 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)The potential for being blackmailed, and not just by the persons involved.
It's not just his "sex life"
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)to pay off the women involved. It was definitely blackmail material.
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)can you imagine how many are being sought out as potential blackmail candidates by various agencies, even if never used but just to have on hand?
DBoon
(22,369 posts)I'm sure the Russian FSB knew about all this long before we did
unblock
(52,253 posts)agreed that him having a consensual affair isn't really our business.
him paying her off to buy her silence definitely is.
unclear whether the payoff was his idea or hers, but either way, it indicates a vulnerability to blackmail and a willingness to cover up damaging information and a willingness to lie about matters the public should care about (the payment and the cover up, not the affair itself).
all this assumes there was no money involved in the affair itself. if it was actually a prostitution relationship, then that's even more important for the public to know.
unblock
(52,253 posts)or the vince foster "murder"?
or the whatever-the-hell-bad-thing hillary supposedly did or didn't do about benghazi?
how is it that the media can soberly and seriously cover fake scandal after fake scandal against democrats and then they suddenly talk about "journalistic standards" when it protects a republican candidate?
did al franken get the benefit of the same "journalistic standards"?
still_one
(92,219 posts)unblock
(52,253 posts)and the list goes on....
still_one
(92,219 posts)knightmaar
(748 posts)From the report Colbert did on it, it sounds like it was consensual, but gross ... and that she was paid off to not talk about it.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)SeaDoo77
(540 posts)And sat on the information so Bush could get re-elected.
Our media is GREAT!!!!
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)hours, weeks and months without a shred of evidence...
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)how hard they tried
DBoon
(22,369 posts)Cowardice on the part of reporters and right wing media owners
nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)Same thing when the Hope Hicks affair news was asking rounds a few months back.
Trump doesn't think there's anything wrong with how he treats women (nor does his base)
He gets his rocks off whenever he is associated with a beautiful woman.
He LOVES seeing the pics of him next to a beautiful younger woman. It adds to his macho virile fantasy.
He NEEDS to be in the news daily (remember he pouts if a couple of days go by and he is not) and he would much rather have the news be about him and a beautiful blonde having sex (he is such a virile man that has to have sex...even if Melania can't because of her lame excuse of giving birth... a man has needs amiright? has to prove that little button works).
This is like when he called gossip columns as John Barron
Cha
(297,323 posts)Bullshit.
still_one
(92,219 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)down in the toilet where they should be.. so what does the NYT do?
Posts only positive letters from his fan club. Unreal
still_one
(92,219 posts)picture