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babylonsister

(170,963 posts)
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 04:59 PM Jul 2018

The Press Cuts Off Trump As Consensus Grows To Stop Covering His Rallies

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/08/the-press-cuts-off-trump-as-consensus-grows-to-stop-covering-his-ralllies.html

Posted 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 Trump’s rallies, as a consensus is growing that the President’s ramblings in front of his followers aren’t newsworthy.

Video of Vox’s Ezra Klein and CNN’s Brian Stelter discussing this on Reliable Sources:


Consensus Grows In Meda To Stop Covering Trump's Rallies

Klein said, “Yes, it is all shocking and childish and immature and petulant and cruel. John McCain is dying. But — but he’s been doing this for years. There’s nothing new here. There’s nothing new in him calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas, nothing new in him attacking John McCain, nothing new in him attacking the bushes. And yet whenever Donald Trump wants to change a subject, he sets up a rally and goes and says a bunch of crazy stuff. I wonder at this point what information is being of encoded in that.”


The Vox editor at large said something later that I strongly disagree. He said that Trump’s attacks on the #MeToo movement aren’t 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 don’t think so.

Klein’s 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 Trump’s sideshow is actually worthy of being covered as news? The conclusion that is reached more and more often is that it isn’t newsworthy. Because Trump doesn’t hold one on one press conferences, often these rallies, are the only place where he speaks publicly for an extended period.

Are Trump’s rallies worth covering?

There are so many things that this administration is doing that need to be given public attention that Trump’s rallies do feel like a waste of time and space. As the cable networks have done, PoliticusUSA monitor’s Trump’s events for newsworthiness, but we will not give a wide platform the President’s 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.
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The Press Cuts Off Trump As Consensus Grows To Stop Covering His Rallies (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2018 OP
Please stop covering his hate propaganda campaign material... FarPoint Jul 2018 #1
He's clearly providing oral sex for dictators and jillionaires thegoose Jul 2018 #29
better 30 months late than never, i guess Takket Jul 2018 #2
+1. yonder Jul 2018 #17
They should have done it during the campaign dalton99a Jul 2018 #3
Hear hear! BigmanPigman Jul 2018 #33
I know, right? ck4829 Jul 2018 #50
They made and built this P.O.S. nolabels Jul 2018 #53
Of course Cnn and MSNBC will play outrageous clips repeatedly Sneederbunk Jul 2018 #4
The ones I watch are doing fact-checking in real time. That, I appreciate. Hekate Jul 2018 #7
Police-state-preppies Magoo48 Jul 2018 #63
I can't think of anything that would wound trump more. Paladin Jul 2018 #5
This other networks should constantly talk about him being a failed, minisculed-dick piece of shit thegoose Jul 2018 #34
I appreciate the fact checking of snippets. I will not watch the Mad King's sundowners... Hekate Jul 2018 #6
Exactly lunatica Jul 2018 #12
hiS base watches Fox News... yuiyoshida Jul 2018 #36
Yes. That's another reason to limit his rally cocerage lunatica Jul 2018 #39
fake pResident bdamomma Jul 2018 #69
They may no longer cover the rallies but they play lips with his racist malaise Jul 2018 #8
maybe DU could have a trump only forum for everything giving him publicity? nt msongs Jul 2018 #9
I actually believe that is a good idea. FarPoint Jul 2018 #27
I would agree with that bdamomma Jul 2018 #68
I had to stop associating with someone Tucker08087 Jul 2018 #10
What took them Rebl2 Jul 2018 #11
I change channels when trump is on Gothmog Jul 2018 #13
Too bad they didnt realize this in Dec 2015 D_Master81 Jul 2018 #14
Considering his "Access Holywood" tape and the fact that the reference to "the bushes" tblue37 Jul 2018 #15
Naughty naughty! calimary Jul 2018 #21
Dont worry,,,,, Cryptoad Jul 2018 #16
What qualifies for "newsworthy" has certainly taken a nosedive into the toilet Mr. Ected Jul 2018 #18
These aren't rallies held "long AFTER the campaign"... maddiemom Jul 2018 #45
You can say that again ck4829 Jul 2018 #48
About time. blueinredohio Jul 2018 #19
It's about g'damned time they figured this out. Hulk Jul 2018 #20
I have mixed feelings about this. Coventina Jul 2018 #22
They can tell us later. Don't give a video platform. SharonAnn Jul 2018 #23
Barnum and Bailey closed up shop. Lifelong Protester Jul 2018 #24
so glad they pimped retarded hitler's rallies so far. pansypoo53219 Jul 2018 #25
No need for any coverage of the orange asshole. warmfeet Jul 2018 #26
Good - these are ELECTION rallies JustAnotherGen Jul 2018 #28
They should stop going to the White House press briefings, too. Mr.Bill Jul 2018 #30
+1 ck4829 Jul 2018 #49
Trump Rally Coverage on Fox Propaganda Is Equal to a $2.4 million an Hour Savings Ccarmona Jul 2018 #31
K&R ck4829 Jul 2018 #32
Whenever I hear him on tv I change the channel he's hard enough to look at let alone listen to him kimbutgar Jul 2018 #35
Yep. I listen to Stephen Colbert treestar Jul 2018 #58
Sinclair, Fox and RT are all that matter to his "fans" anyway... Crash2Parties Jul 2018 #37
No good reason to cover him at all moondust Jul 2018 #38
Bout fucking time some of them get this. Too KPN Jul 2018 #40
Good. I avoid media for a couple of days (except Rachel) after a Trump "rally". Rachel is the.... Tarheel_Dem Jul 2018 #41
His "rallies" are nothing more than him talking to himself, about himself peekaloo Jul 2018 #42
Every time he has a rally Soxfan58 Jul 2018 #43
Absolutely not worth covering except they should organize a pool... LAS14 Jul 2018 #44
About. Time. marble falls Jul 2018 #46
Stop covering this insanity ck4829 Jul 2018 #47
I haven't forgotten or forgiven the lame stream corporate broadcast media Vogon_Glory Jul 2018 #51
Plus, I bet millions do change the channel when Trump is on. Ligyron Jul 2018 #52
I either mute the Trumper or change channels katmondoo Jul 2018 #54
I know, sometimes I feel like kicking the screen in. Ligyron Jul 2018 #55
let his propaganda wing faux spread his fear, hate and bullshit spanone Jul 2018 #56
About two years too late, but I'm glad they're finally considering it. lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #57
He uses his rallies in place of press conferences cutroot Jul 2018 #59
he's using these ongoing rallies for 3 purposes onetexan Jul 2018 #66
Next... Owens Jul 2018 #60
second that onetexan Jul 2018 #65
NOW IF ONLY DU would stop posting every stupid utterance/tweet - I mean, we should know by now Kashkakat v.2.0 Jul 2018 #61
"A Rally!" Sandy and Richard Riccardi niyad Jul 2018 #62
K&R red dog 1 Jul 2018 #64
K&R bdamomma Jul 2018 #67
He hates the press, so why should they cover him? louis-t Jul 2018 #70
Trump Fascist Rallies are White Trash Reality TV Shows on steroids. magicarpet Jul 2018 #71
 

thegoose

(3,115 posts)
29. He's clearly providing oral sex for dictators and jillionaires
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 07:24 PM
Jul 2018

This is what we knew what would happen all along. And fuck those morons who thought he was going to save them. So stupid.

Magoo48

(4,659 posts)
63. Police-state-preppies
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:15 PM
Jul 2018

The little dictator’s 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)
5. I can't think of anything that would wound trump more.
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 05:07 PM
Jul 2018

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)
34. This other networks should constantly talk about him being a failed, minisculed-dick piece of shit
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 07:44 PM
Jul 2018

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)
6. I appreciate the fact checking of snippets. I will not watch the Mad King's sundowners...
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 05:14 PM
Jul 2018

...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.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
12. Exactly
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 06:06 PM
Jul 2018

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.

It’ll also serve the purpose of not giving his base who don’t make it to the rally a free view.

The media never covered past Presidents unless they were specifically addressing the nation.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
8. They may no longer cover the rallies but they play lips with his racist
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 05:19 PM
Jul 2018

misogynistic, fascist bullshit over and over and over.

bdamomma

(63,658 posts)
68. I would agree with that
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:53 PM
Jul 2018

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)
10. I had to stop associating with someone
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 05:58 PM
Jul 2018

Who doesn’t like Trump’s 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. It’s not a game show. It’s 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)
11. What took them
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 06:02 PM
Jul 2018

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!

D_Master81

(1,822 posts)
14. Too bad they didnt realize this in Dec 2015
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 06:12 PM
Jul 2018

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)
15. Considering his "Access Holywood" tape and the fact that the reference to "the bushes"
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 06:16 PM
Jul 2018

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.)

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
18. What qualifies for "newsworthy" has certainly taken a nosedive into the toilet
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 06:32 PM
Jul 2018

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)
45. These aren't rallies held "long AFTER the campaign"...
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 08:05 AM
Jul 2018

These are rallies for the 2020 campaign. He stared campaigning for reelection the day after his inauguration.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
20. It's about g'damned time they figured this out.
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 06:43 PM
Jul 2018

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)
22. I have mixed feelings about this.
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 06:49 PM
Jul 2018

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.

Mr.Bill

(24,104 posts)
30. They should stop going to the White House press briefings, too.
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 07:28 PM
Jul 2018

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)
31. Trump Rally Coverage on Fox Propaganda Is Equal to a $2.4 million an Hour Savings
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 07:38 PM
Jul 2018

To the Trump re-election campaign, based on a 30 Second prime time ad costing about $20,000.

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
35. Whenever I hear him on tv I change the channel he's hard enough to look at let alone listen to him
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 07:45 PM
Jul 2018

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 speech’s instead of playing his awful irritating grating whinny voice.

moondust

(19,917 posts)
38. No good reason to cover him at all
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 11:24 PM
Jul 2018

except to monitor whether it's time to drop everything and run for the fallout shelter.

KPN

(15,587 posts)
40. Bout fucking time some of them get this. Too
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 01:21 AM
Jul 2018

bad they didn’t make the right decision back in 2015/16. We are all paying for it now ... even the ones who don’t know it yet.

Day late and a dollar short Ezra.

Tarheel_Dem

(31,211 posts)
41. Good. I avoid media for a couple of days (except Rachel) after a Trump "rally". Rachel is the....
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 05:23 AM
Jul 2018

only one who gives his "rallies" the attention they so richly deserve. NONE!

peekaloo

(22,977 posts)
42. His "rallies" are nothing more than him talking to himself, about himself
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 07:36 AM
Jul 2018

with a Peanut Gallery for support.

Soxfan58

(3,479 posts)
43. Every time he has a rally
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 07:41 AM
Jul 2018

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)
44. Absolutely not worth covering except they should organize a pool...
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 07:51 AM
Jul 2018

... 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.

Vogon_Glory

(9,086 posts)
51. I haven't forgotten or forgiven the lame stream corporate broadcast media
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 08:22 AM
Jul 2018

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 haven’t forgotten and I haven’t 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)
52. Plus, I bet millions do change the channel when Trump is on.
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 09:09 AM
Jul 2018

This quite naturally drives their ratings into the ground because the only people watching it are doing so over on Fox.

onetexan

(12,994 posts)
66. he's using these ongoing rallies for 3 purposes
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:46 PM
Jul 2018

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

Kashkakat v.2.0

(1,752 posts)
61. NOW IF ONLY DU would stop posting every stupid utterance/tweet - I mean, we should know by now
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 12:54 PM
Jul 2018

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.

red dog 1

(27,648 posts)
64. K&R
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:36 PM
Jul 2018

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.

louis-t

(23,199 posts)
70. He hates the press, so why should they cover him?
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 03:40 PM
Jul 2018

They should have stopped long ago.
They should cover all of the protests against him, btw.

magicarpet

(13,941 posts)
71. Trump Fascist Rallies are White Trash Reality TV Shows on steroids.
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 05:10 PM
Jul 2018

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 ?

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