Chief WH strategist Bannon: Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’

[BmorePat87]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html?_r=0

Apparently he is also the voice behind the inauguration speech, which makes sense if you have ever read about (or seen) any of his documentaries. They describe the US as crime-ridden and jobless, a land where the white Christian man is under attack and must fight the evil socialist forces with his bible to bring back liberty (sometimes this is personified as Phil Robertson or whoever the duck guy who hates gay people is).

I think it is safe to say the media will not back down from correcting these alternative facts.

[GMDino]

(01-27-2017, 01:04 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html?_r=0

Apparently he is also the voice behind the inauguration speech, which makes sense if you have ever read about (or seen) any of his documentaries. They describe the US as crime-ridden and jobless, a land where the white Christian man is under attack and must fight the evil socialist forces with his bible to bring back liberty (sometimes this is personified as Phil Robertson or whoever the duck guy who hates gay people  is).

I think it is safe to say the media will not back down from correcting these alternative facts.

Yeah, this type of attack just won't fly.

The problem is with the internet there will enough rubes supporting it to make it more difficult to shut down.

[*bfine32*]

Well he is correct in that they, as were many here, humiliated by the outcome of the National Election.

WTS, a call for censorship is not the answer if we truely believe that is what Bannon was advocating. personally I think he was pointing to perhaps toning it down for a bit or as Aaron Rodger would say R-E-L-A-X.

I further think mainstream media is doing themselves a disservice by focusing on everything as if the were member of a liberal message board. The "rubes" as they are called by some will just grow tone deaf to the constant noise and something truely important may go unnoticed.

[GMDino]

(01-27-2017, 02:34 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Well he is correct in that they, as were many here, humiliated by the outcome of the National Election.

WTS, a call for censorship is not the answer if we truely believe that is what Bannon was advocating. personally I think he was pointing to perhaps toning it down for a bit or as Aaron Rodger would say R-E-L-A-X.

I further think mainstream media is doing themselves a disservice by focusing on everything as if the were member of a liberal message board. The "rubes" as they are called by some will just grow tone deaf to the constant noise and something truely important may go unnoticed.

The "rubes", as I call them, will never notice anything important.That's why they are rubes.

[Griever]

oh that kellyanne is somethin special

[CageTheBengal]

This doesn't sound like authoritative statement by an authoritative administration.


This is just Bannon and Trump feeding to the fantasy world that got people to vote for Trump in the first place. It's a show. The media is some of the most dishonest people out there according to them. Why would a guy who ran a right wing alternative facts site want to discredit the real media? Well it's not a head scratcher he's trying to legitimize himself, his website and all the other goons with alternative facts.

[6andcounting]

"the media should keep its ,mouth shut and listen for awhile" is the statement not cut out mid-sentence. It was said in the context of the media not understanding that they took Clinton's side and lost, and more specifically about how the media put out the fake news story about Bannon personally ordering the MLK bust be removed from the White House and didn't offering a retraction after they story was proven false.

[Mike M (the other one)]

So no one is entitled to their own opinion based off of the media's current and previous manufacturing of fictitious headlines and articles?

[Belsnickel]

Sorry, but this thread is broken for me for some reason so I can't quote you 6ancounting, but the reporter that posted that story about the bust being removed did retract once he was corrected, and apologized via social media, and Sean Spicer tweeted a response accepting the apology. All happened same day, IIRC.

[Bengalzona]

Test

[Bengalzona]

We've had some problems with this thread, but I think I've been able to fix them.

[GMDino]

(01-30-2017, 06:40 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: We've had some problems with this thread, but I think I've been able to fix them.

Mucho gracias!

Crap now I have to get on the other side of the wall. 

[6andcounting]

(01-30-2017, 04:07 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Sorry, but this thread is broken for me for some reason so I can't quote you 6ancounting, but the reporter that posted that story about the bust being removed did retract once he was corrected, and apologized via social media, and Sean Spicer tweeted a response accepting the apology. All happened same day, IIRC.

Something was screwy because my post formatted itself the way it did and it wouldnt let me edit it. I kept refreshing the screen and then that comment disappeared completely. I'm surprised to see it reappeared itself somehow.

[6andcounting]

(01-30-2017, 06:40 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: We've had some problems with this thread, but I think I've been able to fix them.

No worries. Just blame Russian hacking.

[Bengalzona]

(01-30-2017, 10:50 PM)6andcounting Wrote: No worries. Just blame Russian hacking.

I'm not a blamer, I'm a fixer.

Put me back in uniform and I'll fix them Russkies as well!

[BmorePat87]

(01-30-2017, 03:45 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: So no one is entitled to their own opinion based off of the media's current and previous manufacturing of fictitious headlines and articles?

Which current fictitious headlines?

Also, the President's right hand man shouldn't be making demands of the media. In fact, any disregard for the media by any administration (Obama included) should be concerning. 

[GMDino]

(01-31-2017, 02:02 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Which current fictitious headlines?

Also, the President's right hand man shouldn't be making demands of the media. In fact, any disregard for the media by any administration (Obama included) should be concerning. 

The one's they don't agree with?

[BmorePat87]

(01-31-2017, 02:06 PM)GMDino Wrote: The one's they don't agree with?

I read an article yesterday where Hugh Hewitt was going off on Breitbart for being shit and calling the Alt Right "white supremacists". He said the term "fake news" has lost all meaning, though he said the dossier dump by Buzzfeed could be labeled as that. 

But that still had me thinking about how the term "fake news" is getting thrown out by Trump followers every time an article presents something negative about his administration. 

[GMDino]

(01-31-2017, 02:11 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I read an article yesterday where Hugh Hewitt was going off on Breitbart for being shit and calling the Alt Right "white supremacists". He said the term "fake news" has lost all meaning, though he said the dossier dump by Buzzfeed could be labeled as that. 

But that still had me thinking about how the term "fake news" is getting thrown out by Trump followers every time an article presents something negative about his administration. 

Yep.

Anything they don't like is "fake news".  And the adults have to spend time making sure it is legit and by the time they do the Trump crowd is on to the next "fake news" story.

Also if any says anything negative they are "snowflakes" that need a "safe place".  If a Trump supporter does it they are a "real american" standing up for "freedom".

[*PhilHos*]

(01-31-2017, 02:02 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Which current fictitious headlines?

Also, the President's right hand man shouldn't be making demands of the media. In fact, any disregard for the media by any administration (Obama included) should be concerning. 

You're right. No one in the White House or in Washington, for that matter, should be demanding that the media get back to reporting the news honestly and not biased reporting and reporting on lies and misinformation.

I would normally agree that the leaders of this country should not be disregarding the media wholesale, however, you can't deny the media, as a whole, has fallen far from the ideal of journalistic integrity. It'd be one thing if the problems were limited to the fringes, but we're talking about issues with some big news organization.