Posted on 02/12/2017 12:20:54 PM PST by Kaslin
Trump should skip this & say he has something important to do.
They can’t go this year, they need all their spoof stories and one liner for their fake news articles.
Trump needs to go ahead with this, and after everyone is seated, and dinner is served, walk up to the podium and say, “OK, ladies and gentlemen of the media, there’s your free dinner...enjoy!”
And then, walk out.
Major Garrett covered the Clinton impeachment hearings with Tom Finton for Paul Weyrich’s satellite network, America’s Voice. He has moved to the more liberal side of reporting than he was in the years past. Tom Finton is head of Judicial Watch and doing a more valuable work than Major Garrett is working for CBS.
Sounds like their reputation as reporters is beginning to sting a little bit... but Garrett is right.. if they don’t go, they are admitting who they are... but that is pretty much out of the bag anyway.
Trump needs to end it. There’s no reason for this dinner it’s just an old tradition and we’re in a new ballgame. Finish it.
Set up a new, separate “True Media” correspondents dinner and snub all the purveyors of fake news.
President Trump should alternatively schedule a Flyover Country Correspondents Dinner via Skype from the WH eating a taco bowl el grande while the WH Correspondents Dinner is being held.
LOL
Trump is a self adoring attention whore and these idiots would know that if they read Art of the Deal.
He hire a PR firm specifically to promote his name and eventually the Trump Brand.
You aren’t doing anything good or bad that he doesn’t turn into an advantage.
Probably half the crap he spouts he is insincere about and it’s just a tactic that fits into his larger strategy.
The only way to get at someone like him is to ignore him but, then you are screwed two ways to Sunday.
With the Internet, FaceCrook, Twitter and other social media he can magically turn the tables and deliver his own message directly to the world, making you irrelevant.
Fact is, you need him more than he needs you.
You need to have opposition news shows, otherwise there is no news.
You couldn’t possible say “he has a point” without reducing your own purpose.
Gonna be a great 16 years...
Enjoy the show....
Anyone else heard of the newspaper who ran a pic of Alex Baldwin in the guise of President Trump and mistakenly took it as an actual photo of the president and captioned it as such?
From the look on his face recently I’d say the dead seriousness of the job has weighed on the shoulders of this once “self adoring attention whore”.
I think he’s up to it but it still remains to play out.
This dinner is just an annual opportunity for media personalities to prove to the world what flaming buttholes they really are.
It has turned into a childish contest to see who can do the best job of licking up to the (democrat) politicians they love and destroying the (republican) politicians they don’t.
We witnessed such a comedian at the Al Smith Dinner. Donald Trump provided the comedy and Hillary was there. (YouTube of his speech at the link.)
Good idea. Who started the correspondence dinner anyway? And why is it that it simply can’t be canceled?
LOL!
After Obama was so hateful to Donald Trump at the last dinner, I would tell them they can just replay the tape since they enjoyed it so much last time. If you have never seen it, look it up and see if you’d ever go back to eat with the jackals of the press.
Always liked Major Garrett. Sorry he left FOX.
Perhaps postponing it can work, but he should definitely go because he needs to show the country that he is willing to keep the dialog going.
Major Garrett is right, and I like what he says to say here.
But I would like to see him give equal treatment to all the bloggers and conservative commentators who don’t have a white house pass.
The media today is no longer an exclusive club. It includes a wider cast of characters such as the radio guys, Sundance, Howie Carr, and non-Washington types.
The main problem for the TV news media now is that they don’t realize America is “over” their on-camera preening, their slanted, telepromptered questions and their obvious far-left liberal bias.
Does anyone in America, anyone, think for a moment that former Clinton political hack George Streptococcus is an unbiased policy guru and neutral news anchor?
Television, particularly broadcast television news viewership, is headed downhill faster than an Olympic bobsled. Television stations and networks charge their advertisers based on the number of viewers watching a program, and the downward slide of viewership of those programs is accelerating.
Broadcast TV news viewership is down 7 to 8% every year. It’s down more than 40% over the last 10 years. Fewer viewers equal drastically less net income for the stations and networks. No network income means no jobs for the TV news glitterati.
In addition to that, viewers’ ability to record a program, then fast-forward through the commercials drastically reduces the effectiveness of any advertising, and advertisers know it.
Advertisers are smart. They realize ABC, CBS and NBC spent all Summer and Fall trying to “sell” American voters on electing Hillary Clinton. Advertisers are asking; “If they couldn’t sell America on Hillary, why should we expect TV to be more successful selling our detergent, breakfast cereal or beer?”
As another example, Cronkite, Huntley & Brinkley, Jennings, Brokaw, Rather and the others attracted a fawning social following wherever they went. The supermarket tabloids covered their every move. One of the “Evening Stars” being recognized as having dinner at Elaine’s in New York was good for large numbers of extra lunch and dinner patrons for the next 2 months. Does anyone really care where Lester Hold or David Muir ate last Friday evening?
I would have asked about the dining habits of the third network anchor, but quite frankly, at the moment, I can’t remember his name.
As a further example of how advertisers are realizing TV advertising is on the way out fast, just look at Super Bowl 51. 10 years ago, every Super Bowl commercial availability was sold out months in advance. This year, at least 45% of the commercial availabilities were filled with “promos”; unpaid promotional announcements for other FOX programs. Every time an unpaid promo ran, instead of a paid commercial, it created a $3,500,000 loss to FOX.
Bottom line, as far as the TV news is concerned, the “last plane just left for the Coast.” They just don’t realize it yet.
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