TYT: Why Is The Media Handling Trump With Kid Gloves?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Corporate media has been largely pitching softballs during interviews with Donald Trump. The most difficult question he’s faced may have been Megyn Kelly asking about his vulgar comments toward women, which is personality issue not a policy issue. Is the media not smart enough to challenge his factually wrong statements? Or is “The Ratings Machine” just too lucrative to risk upsetting? Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down on tonight’s TYT Power Panel. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"With a Chris Cuomo-hosted hour-long interview during the 9 p.m. hour Wednesday night, Donald Trump helped CNN boost its ratings compared to the rest of the primetime schedule, but it still wasn’t enough to beat Fox News.

CNN’s Trump special came in second place at 9 p.m. with 369K in the 25-54 demo and 1.144M total viewers. Fox News’ The Kelly File, with guest-hostMartha MacCallum (who didn’t have a Trump interview), remained solidly in first place with 513K in the demo and 2.558M total viewers.”*

Read more here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/wednesday-cable-ratings-trump-interview-causes-big-spike-for-cnn/

[yeoman6987]

1. Because he fights back and the media does not want

any of that especially when Trump gets nasty. The media is scared to death of trump.

[turbinetree]

2. Well------------------------here's

an idea that's oustside the box................
Trump doesn't pay any taxes on his property -----------why may you ask--------------he gets to write it off on his taxes as a loss, soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
We have the same oligarchies called MSM like Disneyland/ABC, Comcast / GE, Wells Fargo , Goldman Sach's of the world take there earned income, declare a loss and plant the profit as a depreciated loss and then park the Moola off shore, because left's face it Trumpie built golf courses in other countries for the write---off and does it here in this country.

So if they were to report how this twit uses the tax system as a slush fund to not pay his tax just like the MSM media does, then it's like the foxes guarding the proverbial hen house.
Or is my democratic-socialistic liberal values to naive to understand the complexities of ratings on the airwaves that we gave these same hypocrites to operate under and they have now totally corrupted to extend the BS of corruption-----------since they don't like to report on ISSUES




Honk---------------for a political revolutions Bernie 2016

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Trump set the tone and controls the media. Either play by his rules or get shut out!

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Right out of the gate, Trump made it clear that if you are not 'nice' to him, you will be banned.

I think the first was some New Hampshire paper. Then, Megyn Kelly. The media now fears him.


If the press wants interviews, access, etc. they must play ball on his terms, else they might lose money.


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[Quixote1818]

4. He is too good for ratings to take down yet. The time will come though. nt