We've had quite enough of AP, thanks.

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/Rockmedia/status/769708467170844673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[Ohioblue22]

1. That's what passes for coverage in america

[world wide wally]

2. You can't help but wonder "why" the media would want anyone of this caliber even near the White Hous

Not to mention that most people in the country don't.
WTF?

[winetourdriver]

3. media

It's not that so much as I think the media desperately wants a horse race. They are extremely frustrated they are not getting one, and they don't want to make the coming landslide worse by actually doing their jobs as far as real journalism goes.

[Akamai]

4. They want the horserace because it makes them money. Remember Les Moonves of CBS who laughed at us?

The press has been disipicable on this!

"Les Moonves: Trump's run is 'damn good for CBS'

"By ELIZA COLLINS 02/29/16 06:15 PM EST

"Donald Trump’s candidacy might not be making America great, CBS Chairman Les Moonves said Monday, but it’s great for his company.

""It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS," Moonves said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, according to The Hollywood Reporter — perfectly distilling what media critics have long suspected was motivating the round-the-clock coverage of Trump's presidential bid.

""Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates," Moonves said, noting, "[t]here's a lot of money in the marketplace."

"The 2016 campaign is a "circus," he remarked, but "Donald's place in this election is a good thing."

""Man, who would have expected the ride we're all having right now? ... The money's rolling in and this is fun," Moonves went on. "I've never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.”"


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-trump-cbs-220001#ixzz4IfkNnU8d
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[world wide wally]

6. But wouldn't logic dictate that if media sided with the anti Trump sentiment, they would be

seen as more favorable to the voting public, Thereby attracting more viewers?

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Do not try

to use logic when it comes to the voting public

[eppur_se_muova]

5. He pulls their press passes, throws them out of his rallies, and sics the crowd on them ...

Yet they think there would BE a White House Press Corps in a tRump administration ?

No way ! Every one of them who's not blacklisted will get the old Talking Points Memo -- and they'd better not change a word when they reprint it, or read it on air.

[Skittles]

7. ratings whores

[Takket]

14. a close elction is great for ratings

and a Trump presidency would be a boon for the M$M. Every dumb thing he says being scrutinized, and once he gets us into a world war everyone will be glued to the cable news networks 24/7. The M$M execs won't be able to walk down a corridor without tripping over a stack of $100 bills from advertising revenue.

[SteelSmasher]

9. Something I hear a lot

of from Trump supporters is "he's tough" or "he's strong". they are referring to his tough talk which to me is not strength. I just don't see insulting people from behind a line of bodyguards to be a true test of endurance.
Lets accept the premise that talking tough and being tough are the same, does that mean he's tough? Maybe if he didn't spend so much time walking his statements back. If he alternates between speeches where he claims to "go with his gut" and then has to retract things he said in his speeches on a regular basis, then how good is his gut at decision making? By "gut" does he mean his intestines? His don't seem to deliver anything that mine don't.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Trump controls news cycle his way and Democrats need to control it their way. This is fixable.

There is a reason Democrats are asked continually about the emails but Trump is not asked about the tax returns. The reason is that Trump makes the emails current news but the tax returns are old news. Democrats need to make the tax returns current news, on a regular basis.

Trump only knows one thing in politics: the application of shock as an entertainer to grab attention. That's what he does with 3 am Tweets and outrageous speeches. It makes news. So if he alleges that Hillary did something "crooked" with emails, her campaign will get asked about it because it is "in the news".

Hillary is not Trump. (You noticed, hunh?) She must not and does not try to out-Trump tRump.

However, a Democrat or two need to step up and be willing to say something outrageous every third day. That way the Democratic agenda becomes news as much as Trump's agenda.

For example if the D said in a speech or tweet something like "Donald Trump is scared to release his tax returns. He's afraid it will show he cheats. It will show he pays penalties. It will reveal loans from Russian oligarchs. He's a coward. It will show he is worth less than a billion dollars because he is paying so much interest on those loans. He's chicken." (A better writer could make it more attention grabbing, more outrageous, more guaranteed to get into the news). This can be delivered with variations once every 5 to 10 days. Three or four other themes can be woven in (bigotry, recklessness foreign policy, non-payment of contractors, etc.).

Hillary will get asked about it, but she can raise its profile in the news while keeping on the high road like this: "Well, I don't agree with some of what D is saying but on an important thing he has a point. Donald Trump is hiding something very bad, we don't know what, but something very bad in his tax returns. It has to be bad or why does he make such a desperate defense to avoid releasing them?" Kind of good-cop & bad-cop.

Then Trump and his surrogates will get asked about it repeatedly.

But you gotta give the greedy sucker media something to suck on; something juicy and kind of outrageous that makes news and get the topic up near the top. Repeatedly. It's messy but it is very doable.

[FairWinds]

12. AP is just about the worst . .

If you can control your gag reflex, go back and look at
their pro-war hysteria type "reporting" in the run-up to
the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

They have absolutely no regard for the truth.

[stuffmatters]

13. Great Post, Optimist Long Memory seems to be onto everything!

Really impressive, just reading all her twitter entries back to the Aug 27 date of OLM's nutshell Trump takedown while MSM protect and promote him for their own profit.