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https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/08/the-press-cuts-off-trump-as-consensus-grows-to-stop-covering-his-ralllies.htmlPosted on Sun, Jul 8th, 2018 by Jason Easley
The Press Cuts Off Trump As Consensus Grows To Stop Covering His Rallies
The press has had enough, and they are saying no more to the coverage of Donald Trumps rallies, as a consensus is growing that the Presidents ramblings in front of his followers arent newsworthy.
Video of Voxs Ezra Klein and CNNs Brian Stelter discussing this on Reliable Sources:
Consensus Grows In Meda To Stop Covering Trump's Rallies
The Vox editor at large said something later that I strongly disagree. He said that Trumps attacks on the #MeToo movement arent worth covering. To this point, I would suggest that he take a long look in the mirror and examine his male privilege. Would anyone in the media be making the same argument if Trump was making racist jokes about African-Americans? I dont think so.
Kleins entitled male media views aside, this is the same discussion that is happening in the minds of journalists and in newsrooms around the country. How much of Donald Trumps sideshow is actually worthy of being covered as news? The conclusion that is reached more and more often is that it isnt newsworthy. Because Trump doesnt hold one on one press conferences, often these rallies, are the only place where he speaks publicly for an extended period.
Are Trumps rallies worth covering?
There are so many things that this administration is doing that need to be given public attention that Trumps rallies do feel like a waste of time and space. As the cable networks have done, PoliticusUSA monitors Trumps events for newsworthiness, but we will not give a wide platform the Presidents venting sessions that he disguises as rallies.
The media has caught on, as the Trump presidential reality show is getting canceled by everyone but Fox.
FarPoint
(12,209 posts)It's definitely not presidential.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)This is what we knew what would happen all along. And fuck those morons who thought he was going to save them. So stupid.
Takket
(21,425 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)ck4829
(34,977 posts)nolabels
(13,133 posts)and now they say siding with popular sediment
Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)Magoo48
(4,659 posts)The little dictators police state preppie rallies...
Watching the baby-bozo-king puff and blow hard while the clowns of the apocalypse cavort and zombie-shuffle in the ritualistic mosh pit of hateful bellowing down front must get old for even the staunchest of MAGA hatters.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)Walk away from his shit shows, responsible press. Concentrate on actual news, let Fox remain to suckle trump's brain-dead rallies.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)I mean everyone: ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC. That's the only fact that could possibly register in this monster's lizard brain.
And yet I'd still doubt that. We're really going seriously "1984" here. Orange Julius Caesar is being paid by Pootie, like the rest of the Puke party. All of them.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)...but that little trick Jon Stewart perfected (and some on MSNBC are increasingly using) of taking today's lie and putting a kind of flip-card stack together with a lot of old contradictory statements is useful.
I'm glad the days of real-time wall to wall coverage of his bathering are coming to an end.
Go ahead and film the rallies but only to use snippets to make a point, like when he interjected the Metoo group. If he says anything of substance by all means show that. Otherwise there should not be any live coverage.
Itll also serve the purpose of not giving his base who dont make it to the rally a free view.
The media never covered past Presidents unless they were specifically addressing the nation.
yuiyoshida
(41,763 posts)They don't care about MSNBC, CBS, ABC or any other network
lunatica
(53,410 posts)bdamomma
(63,658 posts)this guy doesn't want to address the nation, only his cult. Jerk.
malaise
(267,823 posts)misogynistic, fascist bullshit over and over and over.
msongs
(67,199 posts)FarPoint
(12,209 posts)I'm sooooo sick of the fake pResident....
bdamomma
(63,658 posts)we in a way are feeding into his madness. Also I think the media should be howling that there is not going to be any note taking for the one on one.
We all know he has been colluding with Putin.
Tucker08087
(621 posts)Who doesnt like Trumps politics but voted for him SND WILL AGAIN, and thinks, The things he says are so hysterical! Who says those things out loud? Grown ups need to grow up. Its not a game show. Its not about ratings. Cut the clown off. The news circus is all he has. They built him. They need to shut him down.
Rebl2
(13,311 posts)so long! I would like to see them go one day without mentioning him on any network. It would probably drive him crazy if they went a couple of days without talking about him!
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)D_Master81
(1,822 posts)This nation would be so much better off. But their ratings were too important back then so they kept going back to the well of giving DT free air time which lead to where we are now.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)doesn't capitalize their name, I could make a crude joke about the statement that there is "nothing new in him attacking the bushes." (But if course I won't. Heh hehe heh.)
calimary
(80,700 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)M$NBC will be there.... so u want miss anythang!!!!!!!!
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Between regularly-scheduled campaign rallies held long after the campaign, to tweets that seem born of self-revulsion projected on others, to visits to axis of evil countries with autographed 70's albums offered in lieu of diplomacy or brinkmanship, it's no wonder the media is collectively shrugging its shoulders as to how they are supposed to cover the greasiness of it all.
In a way, deciding not to cover him is playing right into his hands, as he will chide the media for cherry picking the news, something he does every moment of his life, but can accuse the press for doing and emerge unscathed with his base. The press will do some introspection and wonder how much they want to BE the news and how much they want to REPORT the news.
But giving rallies and tweets mainstream attention, as if the points made were subject to debate, only fortifies Trump's positions and validates them in a sneaky backdoor way. Good to drop them completely and only report Trump news that was generated in an official capacity. The rest is pure theater, and theater cannot be the basis of non-fictional reporting.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)These are rallies for the 2020 campaign. He stared campaigning for reelection the day after his inauguration.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)But I'll believe it when I see it. The networks are greedy bastards all the way, and the welfare of the country is backseat to ratings any day.
They should have ignored the antics of this con artist once he got the repuKKKe nomination, but.....greed.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)On the one hand, yes, he feeds on media coverage and the outrage that surrounds it.
On the other, I do want to know what atrocities he is inciting his followers to do.
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)So should they (in regards to 45).
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Not until the trial, at least.
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)Enough with the free coverage for the maggot.
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)It's nothing but a platform for SHS to lie and insult the integrity of the press. Of course, Fox will continue to attend. When Trump goes down, however he goes down, let the world see that Fox was the only one still covering him and maybe they will go down with him. Someday when Trump dies, Fox is welcome to be the only one covering the funeral, too.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)To the Trump re-election campaign, based on a 30 Second prime time ad costing about $20,000.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)I like to watch Stephanie Miller on FSTV on weekdays and watch later on delay so I can fast forward when they play his clips. Persoanally I prefer people to read aloud his tweets and speechs instead of playing his awful irritating grating whinny voice.
treestar
(82,383 posts)reading them in his Trump Voice - at least it's funny that way.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)moondust
(19,917 posts)except to monitor whether it's time to drop everything and run for the fallout shelter.
KPN
(15,587 posts)bad they didnt make the right decision back in 2015/16. We are all paying for it now ... even the ones who dont know it yet.
Day late and a dollar short Ezra.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,211 posts)only one who gives his "rallies" the attention they so richly deserve. NONE!
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)with a Peanut Gallery for support.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)He pisses off another group of voters. We don't need to watch the propaganda, but it needs to be reported. I think the best way to bring down is let him run his mouth.
LAS14
(13,749 posts)... reporter to attend each one in case something newsworthy does happen. The default is that it does not. He is draining our national conversation of anything forward looking. We're obsessed with him, just as he likes it.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)ck4829
(34,977 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,086 posts)Lest the corporate executives and senior editors of corporate broadcast media overwhelm themselves in waves of self-congratulations for their (cough cough) good citizenship and responsible journalism, many of us remember the damage they did to the US in 2016. I havent forgotten and I havent forgiven the lamestream corporate media for their role in putting Donald Trump into the White House. Their irresponsible, lazy-@$$, sensation-seeking excuse for journalism propelled Donnie over th finish line and is threatening the very existence of our democracy.
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)This quite naturally drives their ratings into the ground because the only people watching it are doing so over on Fox.
katmondoo
(6,454 posts)at times I smack the TV
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)spanone
(135,636 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Ridiculous.
cutroot
(869 posts)That way he does not have to answer questions
onetexan
(12,994 posts)1- because whenever his ego needs stroking he has his ilks schedule one so he can revel and gloat in their misguided, ignorant adulation
2- to distract the rest of us of what devastation is really going on behind the scenes while everyone is fixated on the nonsense
3- because he's running a protracted campaign till the next president election cycle, so via these ridiculous rallies he stays relevant with his base
Owens
(183 posts)Now the press needs to call out Lying Sarah Slanders every day or walk out.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)what this buffoon is going to say on any given topic - its just not news or noteworthy, folks.
I honestly think that the fixation on all things Trump by so many of us even on the left side is a big part of why we are what we are. I dont know how many times I had to turn off Steph Miller and Alan Colmes (RIP) because their trump clips just went on and on and on and on, at the expense of airtime given to OUR candidate (HRC).
I knew we were doomed one day in August when I turned on prog. radio hoping to hear what our candidate (HRC) had to say at an important debate before some military which had takenp lace the day before. I heard hardly a peep out of HRC, but the trump clips were endless. Yeah its in the context of them laughing at him, but its still media attention and trump sucking oxygen out of the room... at the expense of us being able to hear anything from the other candidate.
When HRC got any attention at all - eg after the convention, during/after the debates - her poll nos. skyrocketed - then crashed again a few wks later when media went back to All Trump, All the Time.
Trump personally may be an idiot acting mostly on personal grudges and petty hatreds, but make no mistake, the whole operation was, and is more than Trump and is in fact a pretty sophisticated media manipulation/ disinformation campaign. His helpers (ussr) have been perfecting the techiques for many decades and in many different countries besides their own.
niyad
(112,435 posts)red dog 1
(27,648 posts)I hope it's true that, as a whole, "the press has had enough" and not just Vox's Ezra Klein
I guess we'll just have to see if they actually do "stop covering his rallies."
I doubt if CBS "has had enough" because they're on record as enjoying covering Spanky (plus his lies & bullshit) because of the ratings.
bdamomma
(63,658 posts)good, may be with no coverage his ego will die.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)They should have stopped long ago.
They should cover all of the protests against him, btw.
magicarpet
(13,941 posts)Low IQ - highly bigoted white Nazis vomiting, defecating, and urinating all over each other in a glee fest of putting anyone down who is not lilly white and as perfectly Christian as them.
Who needs/wants to see that ? It is like going to the zoo to see the monkeys and having them throw fists full of feces at you and your family. Then going back the next day to see the monkeys throw poop at you again.
Who needs that ?