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"In the middle of high-level meetings he'll take phone calls from MSNBCs Joe Scarborough" -Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/buzzfeed-trump-media-234197BuzzFeed hires reporter to cover Trump's relationship with the media
President Donald Trump's complicated relationship with the news media has riveted the political class for months — his impromptu TV appearances where foreign policy is made, his early-morning tweets, his crowing about ratings, and his love-hate relationship with individual outlets.
Now, BuzzFeed, an outlet he recently labeled a "failing pile of garbage," is hiring a reporter whose full-time job will be to cover his complex dynamic with the news. Steven Perlberg, who will join the website from The Wall Street Journal, is part of a broader trend from media outlets to increase their coverage of the Trump administration and its testy relationship with the media. But while plenty of outlets (POLITICO included) have full-time media reporters who often cover Trump, BuzzFeed thus far seems to stand alone as an outlet who is dedicating a full-time person to the intersection.
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What makes Trump such a compelling media story is that he is obsessed with Twitter and often watches hours of television, commenting live on Twitter on what he sees on TV and sometimes making policy and political decisions based on TV coverage. As he watched a Fox News segment on Tuesday night about killings in Chicago, he threatened to "send the feds in!"
He spent the first four days of his presidency in a raging war with the news media over crowd sizes and false claims of fraudulent voting, jarring his critics, supporters and aides. He has told political allies that the news media is his best foil because his supporters don't trust mainstream outlets. Yet, he chats with network executives behind the scenes, trying to shape his coverage, and he obsesses over ratings.
In the middle of high-level meetings he’ll take phone calls from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, on whose show he recently surprised the world by declaring "let it be an arms race," while Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski sat in their pajamas on a Christmas-themed set, digesting his nuclear rhetoric.
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President Donald Trump's complicated relationship with the news media has riveted the political class for months — his impromptu TV appearances where foreign policy is made, his early-morning tweets, his crowing about ratings, and his love-hate relationship with individual outlets.
Now, BuzzFeed, an outlet he recently labeled a "failing pile of garbage," is hiring a reporter whose full-time job will be to cover his complex dynamic with the news. Steven Perlberg, who will join the website from The Wall Street Journal, is part of a broader trend from media outlets to increase their coverage of the Trump administration and its testy relationship with the media. But while plenty of outlets (POLITICO included) have full-time media reporters who often cover Trump, BuzzFeed thus far seems to stand alone as an outlet who is dedicating a full-time person to the intersection.
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What makes Trump such a compelling media story is that he is obsessed with Twitter and often watches hours of television, commenting live on Twitter on what he sees on TV and sometimes making policy and political decisions based on TV coverage. As he watched a Fox News segment on Tuesday night about killings in Chicago, he threatened to "send the feds in!"
He spent the first four days of his presidency in a raging war with the news media over crowd sizes and false claims of fraudulent voting, jarring his critics, supporters and aides. He has told political allies that the news media is his best foil because his supporters don't trust mainstream outlets. Yet, he chats with network executives behind the scenes, trying to shape his coverage, and he obsesses over ratings.
In the middle of high-level meetings he’ll take phone calls from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, on whose show he recently surprised the world by declaring "let it be an arms race," while Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski sat in their pajamas on a Christmas-themed set, digesting his nuclear rhetoric.
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No surprise. It's so obvious that Joe and Mika are propagandists for Trump, with Joe much of the time sounding like a paid Trump staffer trying to help his boss.
Including by deflecting away from ridicule of Trump, which I saw Joe doing yesterday when, after a hilarious video clip from Jimmy Kimmel's show had everyone else on the set laughing at Trump, Joe cut in to talk about music and talked over everyone else to make sure that mockery stopped ASAP. Can't recall ever seeing Joe trying to cut off laughter that way before.
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That it's this
And not this:
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