07-14-2017, 08:12 AM
(07-13-2017, 01:30 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I think what also makes this a different scenario is that previous administrations have tried to deflect or pivot when faced with bad press. They try to change the story to be what they want it to be. That is the most common technique in politics and while it appears unethical to an outside observer, it is the nature of the beast. In this administration we see outright lies or refusals to answer. If you hear any former communications staffer, left or right, talk about their job in the White House they will tell you that those are two things you absolutely cannot do.
What we're seeing has to become a question like the chicken and the egg on a couple of levels. Has the hostility by the press towards Trump caused the issue, or has behavior from the Trump communications team dating back to the campaign (which was notoriously bad) caused the hostility? Either way, it has snowballed to a place that is damaging to our society. We also have the question of whether certain FNC persons are being fed WH talking points, or whether the WH is parroting them. If you listen to the messaging between them it is far too similar to be coincidental, especially when you take into account the timing. Between that and the way the WHPC is being treated it is like a creation of state media.
It is like a creation of state media, but the seeds were planted the day Fox launched. Ailes is dead but not forgotten, this is the story of Roger Rotten...
Speaking of, anyone sniffing around the Get me Roger Stone film? Just heard part of an interview about it yesterday... (thread worthy? I'll let you guys decide.)
I don't think the real journalists (and they are many) like those who yesterday had the priceless opportunity to report Trump met with reporters off the record, then wondered why his remarks weren't published (I swear I am not making that up, it actually happened!!!!!!!!!!) who are continuing to turn up the heat are hurting our society. They are doing their job. When a fire gets bigger you have to ramp up your fire fighting strategies. We have a full fledged blaze in the living room of America.
The abject ignorance of telling reporters your remarks are off the record and then wondering why they weren't printed is just one of the myriad manifestations of said inferno.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
