Donald Trump’s media summit was a ‘ f—ing firing squad’

NY Post ^ | November 21, 2016 | Emily Smith and Daniel Halper

[HiTech RedNeck]

Competing in the free market may be enough. We need a Trump News and I betcha it would catch on like wild fire.

[gogeo]

I liked it!!!

But I thought I heard an echo...

But he's not a conserrrrrrrvative...

[monkapotamus]

Bypassing the MSM.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/800850810490023937

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xX_KaStFT8

[BradyLS]

[Pee-Wee voice:] “I meant to do that.”

[Conservative Gato]

You’re right. The MSM affects elections and it’s not because they always tell the truth. Trump had the hardest battle I’ve ever seen. The man earned his stripes that day...

That is so true and very well worth repeating.

CGato

[HiTech RedNeck]

He just tweets out a video... cool.

Donald Pwns the media.

[who knows what evil?]

I think I hate the US media MORE than ISIS.

The media and educrats (teachers/professors)...I despise both.

[Stayfree]

[Bronzewound]

Wow, I don't get why you are getting so much hostility. Is there some previous offense you've committed? I kind of agreed that the meeting wouldn't have gone down as characterized in the Post.

The media deserves anything they get and I understand everyone's joy at them at last being confronted, but I think Trump's team is smart enough to forcefully confront their lying and hypocrisy in a way that leaves him with some leverage, not acting like a child.

 

[jmcenanly]

How would you expect a meeting with Donald Trump and the MSM to go?

[BradyLS]

It was the Thanksgiving Day Dressing Down!

"Hey! CNN! Give t'anks fuh DIS!" DAKKA!-DAKKA!-DAKKA!…!!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

If it was like a child, we needed the enfant terrible.

[TheNext]

Monopoly is not a marketplace.

[chiller]

If you want justification for this meeting, check out this article in the Observer. It includes a looooonnngggg list of media collusion in the campaign. They should be embarrassed.

http://observer.com/2016/11/mainstream-media-recap-who-colluded-with-the-clinton-campaign/

[wiseprince]

The Birther Presser, HA!

[ez]

I imagine that is the point he would make, “If you are not going to act neutral, I will consider no longer the press, but partisans, and remove your access, and/or yank your licenses.”

[Alberta's Child]

That's an awesome video.

From the background, I'd say they filmed it out at his golf club in New Jersey yesterday.

[Vesparado]

Must confess the Donald let me down on this one. I was so looking forward to something like the scene in the movie “Braveheart” when Longshanks threw his son’s friend out of the castle window. Well, on further reflection, perhaps there were just too many deserving that fate for the Donald to have made a just decision about which one to toss …

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DiogenesLamp]

I think it would be better to use the marketplace than regulation.

I have given this concept much thought, and I used to believe that we should allow "the market" to solve all problems, but even Adam Smith warned us about the creation of monopolies.

"The Market" can't solve this problem anymore than the market could solve the problem of John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Like the media, Standard Oil was so big it could control the market.

They are licensed so there could be criterion built into the licensing both to present both sides and to have fact checking with fines for lies/slander.

This isn't just a matter of allowing both sides to have access. The media is biased left all the way down to the cameramen and janitors. New York voted for Barack Obama by an 88% margin. The employees of the media companies are hired from that pool of people and they cannot help but be biased.

I think the only way to insure fairness is by insuring half the employees are conservatives, because bias can slip in simply as a consequence of people's world view. They can't even help it. The only way to prevent it is you have to have people with a different World View and different biases. With this method, both sides can keep each other honest.