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kpete

(71,996 posts) Mon Aug 27, 2018, 07:48 AM Aug 2018

Dear Trump: The media's not out to get you.

@JohnFugelsang

Dear Trump: The media's not out to get you.
The media's out to get ratings.
America's out to get you.
The media's just covering it.

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Dear Trump: The media's not out to get you. (Original Post) kpete Aug 2018 OP

The media helped put him in the White House. dalton99a Aug 2018 #1

This is only true if you assume that criticism of Trump was actually of value to him because Nitram Aug 2018 #2

dalton99a

(81,516 posts)

1. The media helped put him in the White House.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 08:29 AM

Aug 2018

Nitram

(22,822 posts)

2. This is only true if you assume that criticism of Trump was actually of value to him because

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 09:55 AM

Aug 2018

"any publicity is good publicity." By that benchmark, the media should not have published articles listing his lies, reporting his racist comments, or aired clips of Trump supporters roughing up protesters. That doesn't sound like truth in reporting.The fact that not enough people were disgusted with Trump's childish, ignorant, violent, and deluded speech is not the media's fault.

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