Posted on 07/31/2017 7:00:39 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The press can be dealt with in a professional manner. You need someone who has been in the business to do it. That person would understand inside out how the system works and why. Also, that individual would know how to address a journalist, good or bad.
Another key point is to separate them from each other and stop the hyena vs lion dynamic. One-on-one interviews with selected reps from each outlet would be a good start. In a school classroom, you do not get into a major verbal conflict with one student in front of all of the rest. It's a no win situation. I have a lot more, but that will start the conversation.
Mene - M.A. Journalism - 3.9 GPA
The press are 5th columnist Marxist. Keep them baffled with bull$h!t. They deserve no more.
They are hostile from the getgo. They are ideological, and Trump isn’t; but he serves the opposing ideology, de facto. So they are in it to destroy him.
So the media’s professional manner does not compute. It is wholly ideological, which is, in character, unprofessional. Which is to say that any professional manner on the part of Trump’s team would be utterly asymmetrical.
I wish it weren’t so; but it is.
The sooner the public is made aware that these people are propaganda tools, the better for the nation.
I prefer to abuse them. They deserve it.
With 5 ft. tongs and placed in a forge.
Most of the press does not deserve being treated with professionalism.
The media acts out like spoiled, adolescent school kids, and should be treated as such. I suggest the troublemakers be placed on time-out, make them stand in a corner with a dunce cap on their head. Also, make them go without their mid-day snack, and have them write on the chalk board 100 times, the full text of one of President Trump’s speeches. And make them do all this in front of the rest of the reporters, because there’s nothing better than embarrassing someone in front of a room of their peers.
Today’s press as they appear in the daily press briefings are simply trying for a “Dan Rather moment” to boost their personal credibility with their peers and provide good theater for the evening news. And if you don’t think so remember how they squealed when they turned off the cameras? News worthy questions on issues are discarded in favor of “gottcha” questions and endless debate instead of a Press Briefing where the briefer speaks and the listen, asking questions to provide clarity. The worst of them are the television pseudo journalists without journalism degrees and never took an ethics class in their life and many of whom are lawyers.
posting your gpa made me spit coffee on my iPad.
Sorry, not interested in enabling committed Marxists whose agenda is to destroy my country and in the process take away the protection of my God-given liberties.
In other words, you don’t play nice with the Jackal that is trying to eat you!
They must be confronted. They are dishonest.
3.9 gpa. Impressive. Hugh Hewitt could be the press secretary to serve as a role model of the press. However, Journalism schools train students to be contradictory which is evil and not professional. Thus, Trump is smart to reject press conferences and just use Twitter. I would encourage him to use gab dot ai.
They should be handled by an old fashioned professional grade school teacher like the spoiled brats that they are.
Paddlings, dunce caps, suspensions and expulsions.
The dishonest lying partisan “press” is being handled in a “professonal” manner, by the first president who really seems to know how to expose the dishonesty, the partisanship, the smallness, and the unprofessionalism of the press. If it works it is professional, if it doesn’t work, well it isn’t. And so far, no republican seems to have been able to handle the press except this one, and he seems to be doing an excellent job — and personally, I consider this success quite professional!
Absolutely right.
No way would Obama or any liberal participate in a "press conference" where the main questioners were from: CPAC, Heritage Foundation, NRA, Term Limits USA, Americans for Tax Reform, National Right to Life Committee, Numbers USA... etc.
When Trump has a press conference led by CNN, NYT, WP, AP, ABC, NBC, CBS... he is giving his political enemies a free shot.
Freeze them out. Make them stand outside the White House along with The Nation, Slate, Salon.com, Mother Jones... etc.
I do not believe a press secretary should be trying to face such a large number of journalists all at once. That scenario has to change.
A well-researched, thoughtful response can demonstrate that someone is a propagandist or lacks integrity. No need exists for profanity.
Why? Lots of men and women to post here are very very intelligent people. Quite a number of them are a lot smarter than I am. I only wish to demonstrate that I do understand journalism.
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