Posted on 01/04/2017 12:39:13 PM PST by drewh
Several mainstream media reporters whined on Twitter Wednesday morning that President-elect Donald Trump is setting and controlling the news agenda everyday with his statements posted on his Twitter account. The whine-fest came one day after Trump forced the House GOP to reverse course on weakening an ethics panel as their first order of business with a pair of tweets criticizing the move that said, “With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it………..may be, their number one act and priority. Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance! #DTS”
With his revolutionary use of social media Trump has taken power away from the gatekeeper media to filter his communications to the public and others in power and they (the media) do not like it with at least one media executive predicting that Trump’s tweets will soon be ignored.
Eric Lipton with the New York Times started the press’ Twitter tantrum, writing, “Trump sets agenda every morning with exaggerated/false/destabilizing Tweets, and then we all write about them, letting him own the day. Why?”
Lipton’s Twitter bio reads, “Investigative reporter NYT, based in Washington. Helping cover President-elect Donald Trump-without fear or favor. Tweets detailing moves by Trump, other topics”
The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel added his own complaint to Lipton’s, writing, “Tweet stenography is a cheaper and more reliable source of clicks than original reporting.”
The Times’ Maggie Haberman whined that Trump controlled the agenda all through the campaign with his Twitter account, “This. Was. The. Whole. Campaign.”
Bloomberg’s David S. Joachim agreed with Lipton, writing, “Precisely, precisely, precisely. Can we stop now? –>”
The Wall Street Journal’s Robbie Whelan added his complaint about Trump, saying, “Because his main goals are setting the agenda and getting us to chase rabbits. And it’s working.”
The Daily Beast’s Executive Editor Noah Schachtman wrote the media will “wise up” about Trump, saying, “Some day soon, reporters are going to wise up and treat Trump’s tweets like WH press releases. Ignoring 99% of them, in other words.”
CNN’s media reporter Brian Stelter wrote the concern among the media over Trump controlling the agenda via his Twitter account has been going on for months, but claimed that the coverage would be the same if Obama were issuing press releases the way Trump tweets statements, saying, “Lots of reporters & TV anchors privately asking this same question. True in November and December too, but I’m hearing it more in January…” Stelter also disputed Schachtman’s prediction, saying, “Counterargument: if Obama issued press releases saying what Trump says on Twitter, reporters would cover the heck out of the press releases!
To be sure there were some reporters, mainly from conservative outlets, who disagreed with Lipton. But it was Blake Hounsell, Editor in Chief of Politico Magazine who succinctly made the case for reporting on Trump’s Twitter statements, “Probably because he is the next president of the United States.”
The mainstream media is in for a long four (eight?) years of no longer controlling the agenda.
Send them a pacifier
Why have overpaid talking-heads on staff when Trump can reach 10 times more with a tweet.
Schmucky can go on CNN and reach a million people, Trump can reach 10 million.
I got a twitter account JUST TO get tweets from Trump.
maybe they can get productive work digging ditches
Trump loves the 1st amendment! MSM gatekeepers out of business!
Lets reflect on 2017 so far:
New Congress and opening action will be to start to repeal Obozocare
Harry Reid is gone
Me-Again Kelly left FOX for who cares
And now the MSM is all in a twitter about DJT who goes around them.
Thank you Lord for all you have given us in the opening few days of the year and NO, I’m not tired of winning yet!
They lost any moral authority they may have had on the issue by sitting by idly as Clinton went 200+ days in the middle of a freaking Presidential campaign without a press conference.
That should have been a major media scandal all campaign long but not a one spoke up.
Sooner or later, their bosses will figure out how to save a bunch of money, and it won’t be by switching to GEICO..........................
... President-elect Donald Trump is setting and controlling the news agenda everyday with his statements posted on his Twitter account.
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All the more reason he should keep doing it. Then the media says that, like Obama’s press releases, they will just ignore DJT’s tweets. Interesting thought .... except that DJT’s tweets go DIRECTLY to the people so they will not be ignored by the folks that matter - the voters who put DJT in office. The enemedia/presstitutes are going to be ‘cut out’ and left holding a mic on the WH lawn or sitting around drinking coffee at a talking head “club” (similar to the UN Dictator’s Club) with nothing to say of any consequence in the very near future .... and they will be the ones ignored. I consider that WINNING.
One of the benefits of tweets is that they are short and to the point. With such short messages, it makes it very difficult to quote PE Trump out of context to establish false narratives.
Thus, the left wing propogandists hate tweets with a passion.
Buggy whip manufactures? Doesn’t help that the MSM isn’t trusted.
Trump is leading from the front.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3475333/posts?page=29#29
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3492893/posts?page=4#4
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3497849/posts?page=6#6
I got a twitter account JUST TO get tweets from Trump.
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I have decided to do the same thing after all but swearing (pre-DJT) I’d never have a Twitter account! :-)
The Daily Beast’s Executive Editor Noah Schachtman wrote the media will “wise up” about Trump, saying, “Some day soon, reporters are going to wise up and treat Trump’s tweets like WH press releases. Ignoring 99% of them, in other words.”
The reason they don’t report on the Press Releases is that no on but them gets them. They can’t ignore messages that over 18 million people got relayed to them. The truth is they need to do reporting and not reacting. But actual reporting takes work and time.
I think on election day he had 11.9m twitter followers. Today it’s 18.6m. And I follow him without a twitter account so how many more followers is that? He’s mastered going over the heads of the MSM.
*WINNING*
(I sure wish that word wasn’t associated with Charlie Sheen, LOL!)
Best. Election. Ever. EVER! :)
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