The art of playing the press

[sportage]

Notice anyone how this thing works with Trump?
Trump, and undoubtedly his close advisors like Kelly Conway, Reince Priebus, and number one advisor Steve Bannon, have figured out how to play the press and the media. Something they witnessed from Donald himself during the primaries, and now they have taken this to a entirely new level.

While Trump assembles his administration consisting of the most despicable members, members hell bent on the destruction of Obamacare with absolutely no replacement, members hell bent on the destruction of a woman's right to chose, members hell bent on the destruction of the VA, Medicare, Social Security, and marriage equality, while all this is going on inside Trump Tower the media and the press only interest is with flag burning and alleged voter fraud by millions.

When the heat in the kitchen becomes too hot, or could be heading that way, all Donald Trump need do is tweet some crazed nonsense at 5am. And that single tweet enviably distracts the entire news media for the next 24 hours.
And the media, the press, every news channel, every talkshow will fall for this stunt time after time.
And while for the next 24 hours the press debates whether Trump is really seriously over flag burning or millions of falsified votes, Trump sitting within his tower of glass and gold selects still another administration member hell bent and determined with the destruction of American freedom and equality.

This is the means of operation of Donald Trump.
Trump figured this out, how to distract the press during the primaries, and will forever more use this same exact method of tweet for the sake of distraction.
This will give Trump complete cover to enact some of the most harmful policy ever imposed unto America.
While a Donald Trump administration and Supreme Court abolished a woman's right to choose, abolishes every law protecting Americans from the greed of banks, abolishes Americans right to healthcare, medicare, Social Security, abolishes right for marriage and right of minorities, the press including the American media will be solely focused on some idiotic tweet president Donald Trump tweeted at 5am from the oval office.

When the media has given up holding this administration accountable, Barack Obama will indeed become the very last American president.

 

[ivwshane]

Yeah, I've noticed it too. Looking back on his whole campaign and you see the same pattern. Trumps gets the media and everyone else to talk about the stupid shit he says and never about policies or actual real issues. Its always distract, distract, distract. When I watch the "news" it now becomes frustrating as I sit there wondering why they are covering the useless stupid shit and nor the real issues.

 

[trenchfoot]

The only folks who are going to take notice are the folks who didn't vote for him.

Most of those folks who did will dutifully take it in their gut, their shins, their chins and poop chutes and not say a single word over how they got took to the cleaners, how they volunteered themselves to be looted by the very folks they put in office.

All I'm doing here is describing what happened when Bush and Cheney held sway over the nation for eight long years and what it took for the nation to seek remedies elsewhere. And what they got was a decent modest recovery and a somewhat stable moderately improving economy when Obama took over, despite the blockades the Repubs put up against him.

Hillary would have continued that trend, but no, the voters who backed Trump apparently want something else other than what we've been building on since Obama took office. It was working. Maybe not for all, but it never is.

I guess it's back to the glory days of giving more tax cuts and loopholes for Trump and his fellow billionaires while the middle class and the poor sink ever deeper into the bottomless pit the GOP fashioned for them. And oh yeah, more wars. We gotta have more wars. And anything else that tips the scale of prosperity in favor of the very wealthy.

That is, after all, the legacy that the GOP left us with back in 2008. I don't see any reason why that's going to change. Well, with the rogue's gallery of the GOP's finest crooks that Trump is stocking his cabinet with anyway.

 

[PokerGuy]

Trump's not even in power yet and the lefties are in a continual state of foaming at the mouth rage. You'll be an endless source of amusement for at least 4 years

Trump treats the press as what they are: corrupted biased organizations, easily distracted and easily misled. They can't control the message anymore because he simply bypasses them and goes straight to the public when he wants to, and it drives them nuts. Sorry, but the lefty media shills are losing some power to manipulate the masses, and Trump took full advantage of them.

 

[agent00f]

Trump's not even in power yet and the lefties are in a continual state of foaming at the mouth rage. You'll be an endless source of amusement for at least 4 years

Trump treats the press as what they are: corrupted biased organizations, easily distracted and easily misled. They can't control the message anymore because he simply bypasses them and goes straight to the public when he wants to, and it drives them nuts. Sorry, but the lefty media shills are losing some power to manipulate the masses, and Trump took full advantage of them.

Does anything interesting ever go on in that head through the course of the day or just this repetitive tripe? Genuinely curious.

 

[glenn1]

Trump's not even in power yet and the lefties are in a continual state of foaming at the mouth rage. You'll be an endless source of amusement for at least 4 years

Yeah, when you're a progressive democrat ANY threat to the social welfare redistribution state is seen as "the destruction of American freedom and equality." The citizens who pay taxes to pay for all this shit are seen as an abstraction at best and more typically a "deplorable" for not just handing over total control to them.

 

[agent00f]

Yeah, when you're a progressive democrat ANY threat to the social welfare redistribution state is seen as "the destruction of American freedom and equality." The citizens who pay taxes to pay for all this shit are seen as an abstraction at best and more typically a "deplorable" for not just handing over total control to them.

LOL at white welfare recipient who thinks he's paying for shit.

 

[PokerGuy]

LOL at white welfare recipient who thinks he's paying for shit.

As usual, you come in spewing racist crap. Notice there was nothing in the thread about race whatsoever until you started with your racism. How the heck have you not been banned yet?

 

[imported_tajmahal]

Wow, this seems to be the cynical manipulation of a highly partisan press by the incoming Trump administration.

 

[JockoJohnson]

As usual, you come in spewing racist crap. Notice there was nothing in the thread about race whatsoever until you started with your racism. How the heck have you not been banned yet?

Cause he's a lefty spewing this shit. And they don't say racist garbage -- they are just reflecting your inner thoughts and desires. Why do you hate yourself?

 

[agent00f]

As usual, you come in spewing racist crap. Notice there was nothing in the thread about race whatsoever until you started with your racism. How the heck have you not been banned yet?

Yeah I agree the whole system of giving handouts to white folks who imagine their money is going to welfare queens is pretty racist. We should join together to end it.

Cause he's a lefty spewing this shit. And they don't say racist garbage -- they are just reflecting your inner thoughts and desires. Why do you hate yourself?

We should also join together to get the media to talk about these substantive issues of billions wasted on white welfare instead of whatever that dumbshit keeps tweeting.

 

[JockoJohnson]

We should also join together to get the media to talk about these substantive issues of billions wasted on white welfare instead of whatever that dumbshit keeps tweeting.

Hey, something with which we can agree. I am all for the morons in the media to stop focusing on the stupid shit like Trump's tweets and start discussing real issues. It would bring more light on Trump and his policies -- for better or worse. It's a shame that the media jumps on the stupid shit for ratings instead of actually doing their jobs and reporting real news and issues.

 

[PokerGuy]

Yeah I agree the whole system of giving handouts to white folks who imagine their money is going to welfare queens is pretty racist. We should join together to end it.

Once again, you stupid racist piece of crap, the color of someone's skin has no bearing on whether / if they should get anything or not or whether they should get welfare or not.

 

[agent00f]

Once again, you stupid racist piece of crap, the color of someone's skin has no bearing on whether / if they should get anything or not or whether they should get welfare or not.

I agree we should abolish white welfare to make america great.

 

[Kaido]

Notice anyone how this thing works with Trump?
Trump, and undoubtedly his close advisors like Kelly Conway, Reince Priebus, and number one advisor Steve Bannon, have figured out how to play the press and the media. Something they witnessed from Donald himself during the primaries, and now they have taken this to a entirely new level.

It's both genius & hilarious. But for perspective, the thing is that the news hasn't been the news for a long time. The news today is entertainment; each news station has their own bias. They need to sell advertising, especially in a world where a lot of their income comes from online ad views on their website. Trump is perfect for this because he's always doing non-standard things like sending out random tweets at 3am in the morning, which makes for great headlines, which pulls eyeballs in to the TV channels & websites. On the flip side, you can tell that the people who are actual reporters are frustrated because really, what else are you supposed to report on, if not what the president-elect is doing today? It takes the focus off the core issues & onto the antics.

The marketing classes I took in college were eye-opening because it was like watching a behind-the-scenes on your favorite movies...you get to see exactly how much careful manipulation & programming goes into curating the end-user experience. The media does it no different & Trump is simply taking advantage of that. imo one of the big reasons he won was that he had a simple, clear marketing message: "Make America great again". Obama did the same with his "Hope" campaign message. Trump & his team are pros in today's reality TV show world.

If he can combine that with actual positive change, he'll really have something going for him. That's what remains to be seen.

 

[Darwin333]

Wait, so the media itself is so easily manipulated that all Trump has to do is send out a tweet and they will ignore the important topics and instead focus solely on his tweet? And this is somehow Trump's fault and not the absurdly easily manipulated press?

 

[ivwshane]

Wait, so the media itself is so easily manipulated that all Trump has to do is send out a tweet and they will ignore the important topics and instead focus solely on his tweet? And this is somehow Trump's fault and not the absurdly easily manipulated press?

The lack of reading comprehension is no surprise here.

 

[Kaido]

Wait, so the media itself is so easily manipulated that all Trump has to do is send out a tweet and they will ignore the important topics and instead focus solely on his tweet? And this is somehow Trump's fault and not the absurdly easily manipulated press?

It IS the media's fault for how they react. But again, news today is more entertainment than journalism. Trump is the new Kardashian - all eyes on him. If the news just wanted to report the news, then they would focus on the real issues first & foremost, and then hold those in charge accountable, but that's not what sells advertising these days.

And it's really nothing new; Trump is just more straightforward about it than anyone has been in the past. He worked for a long time in the entertainment industry & knows what buttons to push and what strings to pull. He knows exactly how to manipulate the media because the media is forced to work a certain way based on bias, advertising dollars, etc. Trump & his team has figured out the system, aren't too proud to actually use it, and as a result, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. He's been making the front page of CNN for like six months now, and is almost always headline news.

 

[jammix]

Yeah, I've noticed it too. Looking back on his whole campaign and you see the same pattern. Trumps gets the media and everyone else to talk about the stupid shit he says and never about policies or actual real issues. Its always distract, distract, distract. When I watch the "news" it now becomes frustrating as I sit there wondering why they are covering the useless stupid shit and nor the real issues.

Yep..."there is no such thing as bad publicity" and trump who was a media guy all his life knew how to play the cards right...this video explains it quite good how he did it.

 

[raildogg]

I don't think the corporate owned media is stupid or naive to fall for Trump's tricks. Everything that you see on the media is planned and coordinated. They didn't get to be multi-billion dollar businesses by being played by people.

The media and Trump are on the same team. They may seem to have opposite interests or have some other differences but that is a mask. They are playing a giant game.

Trump would never have gotten the coverage from every one of the giant media (print, TV, internet, etc) outlets if they really did not care for him or did not wish him to be selected president. There is more to the story than people think. Trump has been promoted for many years. He's been made famous for many years. He already had name recognition before the election.

They gave Trump coverage during the birther right after Obama was elected. Of course there is all the TV spots Trump has been in.

Everything that happens in higher places of power is coordinated. Nothing happens accidentally or through some naivety or some other innocent mistake.

We are possibly talking about large amounts of money that could be at stake. The elites would never allow simple mistakes to jeopardize this.

 

[agent00f]

It IS the media's fault for how they react. But again, news today is more entertainment than journalism. Trump is the new Kardashian - all eyes on him. If the news just wanted to report the news, then they would focus on the real issues first & foremost, and then hold those in charge accountable, but that's not what sells advertising these days.

And it's really nothing new; Trump is just more straightforward about it than anyone has been in the past. He worked for a long time in the entertainment industry & knows what buttons to push and what strings to pull. He knows exactly how to manipulate the media because the media is forced to work a certain way based on bias, advertising dollars, etc. Trump & his team has figured out the system, aren't too proud to actually use it, and as a result, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. He's been making the front page of CNN for like six months now, and is almost always headline news.

Yep..."there is no such thing as bad publicity" and trump who was a media guy all his life knew how to play the cards right...this video explains it quite good how he did it.

Before we give him too much credit, what he gains in the lowest common denominator demo he tends to lose with the more edu crowd. It's really a peculiarity of the electoral college that more states hinge on the low edu white vote while the latter are all concentrated in solid blue states.

So he does have the bumpkin manipulation skills mentioned, but it only worked due to a certain vulnerability/defect of the system.

 

[JSt0rm]

The only folks who are going to take notice are the folks who didn't vote for him.

Most of those folks who did will dutifully take it in their gut, their shins, their chins and poop chutes and not say a single word over how they got took to the cleaners, how they volunteered themselves to be looted by the very folks they put in office.

All I'm doing here is describing what happened when Bush and Cheney held sway over the nation for eight long years and what it took for the nation to seek remedies elsewhere. And what they got was a decent modest recovery and a somewhat stable moderately improving economy when Obama took over, despite the blockades the Repubs put up against him.

Hillary would have continued that trend, but no, the voters who backed Trump apparently want something else other than what we've been building on since Obama took office. It was working. Maybe not for all, but it never is.

I guess it's back to the glory days of giving more tax cuts and loopholes for Trump and his fellow billionaires while the middle class and the poor sink ever deeper into the bottomless pit the GOP fashioned for them. And oh yeah, more wars. We gotta have more wars. And anything else that tips the scale of prosperity in favor of the very wealthy.

That is, after all, the legacy that the GOP left us with back in 2008. I don't see any reason why that's going to change. Well, with the rogue's gallery of the GOP's finest crooks that Trump is stocking his cabinet with anyway.

they will get a nice bubble going and then blame the dems when it crashes.

 

[HomerJS]

It's both genius & hilarious. But for perspective, the thing is that the news hasn't been the news for a long time. The news today is entertainment; each news station has their own bias. They need to sell advertising, especially in a world where a lot of their income comes from online ad views on their website. Trump is perfect for this because he's always doing non-standard things like sending out random tweets at 3am in the morning, which makes for great headlines, which pulls eyeballs in to the TV channels & websites. On the flip side, you can tell that the people who are actual reporters are frustrated because really, what else are you supposed to report on, if not what the president-elect is doing today? It takes the focus off the core issues & onto the antics.

The marketing classes I took in college were eye-opening because it was like watching a behind-the-scenes on your favorite movies...you get to see exactly how much careful manipulation & programming goes into curating the end-user experience. The media does it no different & Trump is simply taking advantage of that. imo one of the big reasons he won was that he had a simple, clear marketing message: "Make America great again". Obama did the same with his "Hope" campaign message. Trump & his team are pros in today's reality TV show world.

If he can combine that with actual positive change, he'll really have something going for him. That's what remains to be seen.

The genius in it is knowing how stupid his base is. With a moderately informed electorate their tricks wouldn't work.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

Media pack mentality. Trumps tweets a rabbit, the media pack races off chasing it barking and howling. The crowd is amused. The pack never figures out that they're just being run in circles.

 

[Darwin333]

It IS the media's fault for how they react. But again, news today is more entertainment than journalism. Trump is the new Kardashian - all eyes on him. If the news just wanted to report the news, then they would focus on the real issues first & foremost, and then hold those in charge accountable, but that's not what sells advertising these days.

And it's really nothing new; Trump is just more straightforward about it than anyone has been in the past. He worked for a long time in the entertainment industry & knows what buttons to push and what strings to pull. He knows exactly how to manipulate the media because the media is forced to work a certain way based on bias, advertising dollars, etc. Trump & his team has figured out the system, aren't too proud to actually use it, and as a result, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. He's been making the front page of CNN for like six months now, and is almost always headline news.

So the real question is, why do we allow the media to ignore the important news and report the dumb shit instead? If this isn't what we wanted/consumed then we wouldn't be getting it.