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how to cover donald trump fairly, a style guide
washington post ^ | june 14, 2016 | alexandra petri

Posted on 06/16/2016 2:08:25 AM PDT by SteveH

But it may not be too late for you, other members of the media! Please read and implement!

The Pillars of Covering Trump:

1. Donald Trump is never wrong.

Donald Trump is infallible — like the pope but with more raw sexual charisma. If Donald Trump appears to be wrong in a story, either because of a statement or an action, or some combination of the two, it should be rewritten so that he is not wrong. A good baseline for what is fair and honest coverage is that fair and honest coverage depicts Donald Trump as the shining, golden god he is, envied of men and beloved of women. Unfair, dishonest coverage does not depict Donald Trump this way.

2. Style is as important as substance. A good post about Donald Trump includes at least one of the following words: “huge,” “great,” “manly,” “terrific,” “incredible,” “fantastic,” “remarkable,” “big”/”bigly,” “immense,” “girthy,” “magisterial,” “gargantuan,” “tumescent.” Ideally, this word would be in the headline. A bad post about Donald Trump includes the words or phrases “puny,” “dangerous,” “Godwin’s law,” “cocktail shrimp in a toupee,” “husk of dead skin and hyperbole,” “garbage fart,” “what results if you accidentally leave Guy Fieri in a microwave.”

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KEYWORDS: trump
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somewhat funny but pathetic too since the wp journalist seems oblivious to the contrarian pov
1 posted on 06/16/2016 2:08:25 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: SteveH

It is killing them that Trump is treating them like the 2-year old brats they are. It is killing them.


2 posted on 06/16/2016 2:14:16 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Lmao! Severe butthurt.

Trump used management 101. Fire one person so that the others fall in line.


3 posted on 06/16/2016 2:21:46 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: Gaffer

They do not want to be treated like 2-year old brats and they will hold their breath and turn blue until they are treated like adults.


4 posted on 06/16/2016 2:24:31 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: SteveH

Love the sour grapes.


5 posted on 06/16/2016 2:32:23 AM PDT by Fhios (The U.S needs Hillary like a fish needs a bicycle.)
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To: SteveH

How whiny and petulant.

When Trump first pulled the press credentials of WaPo, the comments after their article about it would have one think that Trump had shut down every media outlet in the country. Ooh, they complained, Trump is such a fascist, what a scary development!

These idiots have yet to realize that while the first amendment is a Constitutional right, it also carries with it a great responsibility. They don’t serve the American people by lying about politicians and spinning everything according to a predetermined agenda.


6 posted on 06/16/2016 2:42:56 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: SteveH
But it may not be too late for you, other members of the media! Please read and implement!

Taking advice from the discredited and disgraced Washington Post may not be the best approach.

Perhaps the schools of journalism can rework their curriculum to teach responsible journalism. Responsible reporting provides the context and all sides of a story, and then lets the reader decide.

Is that being done in this country, or only England?

7 posted on 06/16/2016 2:48:30 AM PDT by olezip
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The WaPo is really a tabloid trying to appear as a legitimite newspaper. It’s bad at both.


8 posted on 06/16/2016 2:52:10 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhahahaaa.....)
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To: Gaffer

Donald is inside their heads....eating their brains....nom, nom, nom!


9 posted on 06/16/2016 2:53:01 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SteveH

This woman is proving Trump’s point. If this article appeared on the editorial page, I don’t know how any fair-minded reader can conclude that the paper is fair.


10 posted on 06/16/2016 3:02:31 AM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Paladin2
The WaPo is really a tabloid trying to appear as a legitimite newspaper. It’s bad at both.

I went to an event in the 1970s, and then read about it in the WP. I thought that there were two events, but there was only one. It was a wake up call about warped and twisted reporting. The Post did get the sports scores, the weather, and maybe the Style section, but their political reporting was heavily biased.

Perhaps the Post is worse that ever because it is now owned by a leftist billionaire with an "axe to grind" in connection with Donald Trump.

11 posted on 06/16/2016 3:04:36 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Gaffer

Look her up - she actually is about a 2 year old brat.


12 posted on 06/16/2016 3:06:17 AM PDT by major-pelham
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To: SteveH

The tone of a spoiled child attempting to manipulate parents. A hearty slap would have them bawling.


13 posted on 06/16/2016 3:07:35 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("Go not a step from your door unarmed, travel armed for war, you may at any time need a spear." ODIN)
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To: Anoreth
As Noel Coward put it, Donald Trump can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise.

I thought this point was amusing and accurate. Reminds me of Tom, too ...

14 posted on 06/16/2016 3:12:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Air is great!" ~ Kathleen)
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To: Gaffer

It is killing them that Trump is treating them like the 2-year old brats they are. It is killing them.

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That’s the tone of the article, brat.


15 posted on 06/16/2016 3:32:17 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: SteveH

Unworthy of my time to read. WP is dead to me.


16 posted on 06/16/2016 3:47:37 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: SteveH

They are projecting the way that they cover President Obama.


17 posted on 06/16/2016 3:52:53 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: SteveH

I have a few conservative friends that still subscribe to the Washington Post and the New York Times. When I accuse them of funding anti-American propaganda they insist it is merely to ‘keep tabs on what the other side is thinking’. Balderdash! In their desire to look ‘hip’ they are keeping the socialists in pocket money.


18 posted on 06/16/2016 3:53:02 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: SteveH
A good post about Donald Trump includes at least one of the following words: “huge,” “great,” “manly,” “terrific,” “incredible,” “fantastic,” “remarkable,” “big”/”bigly,” “immense,” “girthy,” “magisterial,” “gargantuan,” “tumescent.” Ideally, this word would be in the headline.

It pains them that Trump rallies people by using positive, optimistic words to describe the future of America and Americans.

-PJ

19 posted on 06/16/2016 3:58:42 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Gaffer

...and now we can all see how the wapo opinion.... er, journalists really feel.

News is no longer reported but the “reporters” want to all skip shoe leather fact finding in their quest for the coveted Op-Ed desk. I do not believe that propaganda, revisionism, nor sheeple control was in mind of the constitutional framers when they proposed freedom of the press. It was to inform not to hold sway, or to bring the citizens over to their personal opinion or the opinions mandated by those in positions of authority.


20 posted on 06/16/2016 4:04:46 AM PDT by Clutch Martin
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