TV networks can’t find common ground in dealing with Trump (Trump Wins)

WaPo ^ | November 23 at 7:41 PM | Paul Farhi

[Red Steel]

Network TV representatives decided Monday not to fight restrictions imposed by Donald Trump's campaign on reporters covering the Republican presidential front-runner.

In a conference call, the political-news chiefs of the five leading news networks conferred about the issue but came to no agreement about what to do, several people familiar with the discussion said.

The call among news managers from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News came after two run-ins between network journalists and Trump officials last week. ...

In interviews, officials from two networks described the conflicts between Lewandowski and reporters last week as an unpleasant but routine part of campaign coverage. They dismissed the need for a collective response.

"As of right now, there's no plan for it and no list of demands," said one official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the group's discussion was supposed to be private.

[Durbin]

So they can’t figure out how to team up on him in a way to shape public opinion like they are used to doing? Good.

[Buckeye McFrog]

You boycott covering his campaign.

No, you.

After you....

[Gaffer]

The reason for the decision is R-A-T-I_N-G-S. Worse still is that gut wrenching potential they have akin to IBSD if he does get the nomination and [God Forbid] win.

Their petulant little psyches just couldn’t take the trauma and inattention.

[SaraJohnson]

Journ o lists just organizin’. Trump beware.

I hope Trump is ready for the onslaught of hate he is going to get for just being opposed to the media’s candidate, Hillary. They will be so mean to him, his wife and his children, it will shock him as it is so different from how he’s been treated as a celebrity. The Trump family has to be hard ass about the hate and talk over it to the people like Reagan did.

The media will be Hillary! supporters and go after her opposition - Cruz or Trump - like the mad dogs Marxists they are.

[Jack Hammer]

TV networks can’t find their *sses with both hands; their usual course of action is simply to invent something - and preferably something that reflects a leftist worldview.

[MNJohnnie]

Of course the fact that they did not object when Hillary’s campaign did the same thing to them months ago kind of put them in an unwinnable position from the start.

[tet68]

Collusion is not common ground.
This is one of the most disgusting things
I’ve heard of the media doing.

[867V309]

Journ o lists just organizin’. Trump beware.

This kind of subterfuge is so 1990's. It's the wind in Trumps sails.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Trump has dealt with every kind of crook and reprobate, Sara. These cretins are just another day for Trump.

[Aria]

Trump seems to have a wonderful family and I hope the filth that is about to hit them is something they can brush off.

Honestly, I don’t know how the Palins got through it - probably only with the help from God.

[Parley Baer]

They have decided just to keep lying and continue to make things up.

[Duchess47]

Well he and his family are getting a good indication of it from the way he and they have been treated by good, respectable, conservative Republicans.

Let’s see, he has been accused of being a liar, hiring illegals, raping his ex-wife, sharing a woman with another guy, his wife has been accused of being a porn star. That he is a clown, that he “didn’t build it”, the list goes on.

How much worse can the media get?

[Albion Wilde]

Ping!

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Trump titles on FR with links, from 12:00 AM to 3:45 PM, 11/24/15:
TV networks can't find common ground in dealing with Trump (Trump Wins)
Trump faces challenge on NH eligibility (Fergus Cullen complaint dismissed)
Whoopi: Trump's 9/11 Rhetoric Is Putting American Muslim Women In Danger
Donald Trump Threatens to Run on a Third Party Ticket... Again
Team Trump: Media 'Can't Overpower Donald Trump, He's a Leader'
Can GOP Party Bosses Rig the Rules to Keep Trump from Winning? You Bet!
Former New Hampshire GOP chair moves to take Trump off the ballot
Trump: 'Many people jumped and I witnessed it' on 9/11
Mika Brezezinski: 9/11 Rhetoric "Could Really Hurt Trump"
Iowa poll: Cruz, not Carson, now Trump's chief rival (CNN)
Donald Trump on waterboarding: 'If it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway.'
The current state of the GOP presidential race [As of 11/24/15]
Ted Cruz Gains Momentum in Iowa
Quinnipiac Poll: Cruz, Trump in Virtual Tie In Iowa
Trump camp warns GOP on super PAC attacks (Liz Mair and Trump Card LLC)
Trump on Waterboarding: It Works, But Even 'If It Doesn't Work, They Deserve It Anyway'
Trump Ad Features Hillary's Laughing Head Superimposed Over Ruins of Benghazi
Keystone Cop's Implosion: Liz Mair Ends Panhandling Hours After Breitbart Bust (Trump Card LLC)
Republican donors, operative fueling new anti-Trump ad blitz
TRUMP, CRUZ ON TOP IN TOPSY-TURVY IOWA GOP CAUCUS
Cruz breathing down Trump's neck in Iowa (Jeb slumps to 4% in new poll)
Trump: 'No way' Time makes me Person of the Year
Which Party Will Emerge From Its Gathering Storm?
Jersey Sure (Mark Steyn 'Pinocchios' the Fact Checkers on Muslim 9/11 Celebrations)
Kasich goes for the jugular in latest Trump attack ads (won't make a dent)
Trump slams Kasich, media at Ohio rally
The Nuclear Option: Donald Trump Invading "Safe Space," And That's Why He's Winning
Why he (Trump) is leading so far
Byron York: A brief theory of Trump's outrageousness
Navajo Indian And Democratic Senator Leaves To Join GOP
Paul: U.S. should "absolutely not" monitor mosques, create Muslim database
Trump faces challenge on eligibility for the New Hampshire ballot
New York Times Scrubs Story on Muslims Celebrating 9/11 (VANITY)
I live in Jersey and Trump is right: Muslims DID celebrate on 9/11 in NJ... we saw it!

[longtermmemmory]

remember the three reporters caught on video who were setting up Romney for a gotcha question...

[GOPJ]

Chuck Todd, George Stephanopoulos, and Chris Matthews were never ‘journalists’ - - they were democrat operatives... and still are. They pretend to be journalist.

To think of TV “News” as anything other than Democrat propaganda - - controlled a few Dem Bigs is to admit being a gullible fool.

[pfflier]

I think an anti-trust charge should be considered regarding this meeting.

[longtermmemmory]

is collusion regarding a specific candidate a form of political activity subject to the election donation reporting?

If this was a business it would be antitrust

[JPG]

Being roped in is just fine, however.

[CottonBall]

“The reason for the decision is R-A-T-I_N-G-S. “

Yup, greedy pretend-socialists.