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In reply to the discussion: 'This is not normal': Kurt Eichenwald blasts reporters for being afraid of questioning Trump [View all]Willie Pep
(841 posts)6. Members of the press are also afraid of Trump's insane followers.
All Trump has to do is tweet that so-and-so reporter was mean and "very unfair" to him and they will be getting death threats within 24 hours. I am not trying to make excuses for reporters having no backbone but I suspect that is one reason why the press is handling Trump with kid gloves. Another is, of course, the false equivalence issue and news outlets being afraid of being called the "liberal media." Conservatives think everyone who disagrees with them is a an evil liberal shill controlled by George Soros and the secret communist underground so why bother trying to appease them?
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'This is not normal': Kurt Eichenwald blasts reporters for being afraid of questioning Trump [View all]
DonViejo
Dec 2016
OP
"We have got to demand press conferences. We have got to stop covering his tweets like theyre news"
Cha
Dec 2016
#1
It would be instructive for everyone to read up on John Peter Zenger.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Dec 2016
#4
I am sure it had nothing to do with trump having a secret meeting with them and chewing them out
still_one
Dec 2016
#5
Seriously. His cabinet appts are just obscene -- yet the media continues idiotically giggling over
anneboleyn
Dec 2016
#29
This works if the reporters are free from their controllers and do not have to fear losing
RKP5637
Jan 2017
#52
Yeap, saw this ... then the rest of them gave the "Trump supporters don't care" punk ass'd
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#14
The medias reputation is taking a big hit and they dont seem to understand this.
lancelyons
Dec 2016
#16
Every time I hear the words 'trump' and 'tweet' or 'twitter' I turn of the radio, shut off the tv or
mahina
Jan 2017
#46
Two nights ago/Friday, CNN covered Trump's tweet about Putin doing nothing.
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2017
#51