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Donald Trump is owning the media
The Verge ^ | December 2, 2015 | T.C. Sottek

Posted on 12/03/2015 12:31:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump wants the world to acknowledge his ridiculous story about people cheering on 9/11, so today he printed some articles from the web and shared them on Periscope. Normally we might think that printing out websites and streaming them on a smartphone is a senile act, but don't let Trump fool you. Every time he speaks on Periscope, he'll deal another blow to media's traditional gatekeepers.

Here's an inconvenient truth about Donald Trump: regardless of his electoral viability, he's completely owning the mainstream media. It's really not a contest. The formula for Trump's media dominance is simple: Donald Trump says something legitimately crazy, and the news media is forced to react to his every move, because they don't own as much of Trump's audience as they used to. When Trump wanted to share racist statistics on crime that were conjured by white supremacists, he clicked a button, and those ideas reached his audience without the say of an editor. And when he was then challenged by the media on those statistics, Trump basically said "what is a retweet, really," and went about his day. (The thoroughly debunked tweet is still in Trump's timeline.)[continued]

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics
KEYWORDS: 911; elections; media; mediabias; trump; trumpisright
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1 posted on 12/03/2015 12:31:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Berlosconi all over again.


2 posted on 12/03/2015 12:33:56 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somebody has had too much lib KoolAid.


3 posted on 12/03/2015 12:34:44 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump wants the world to acknowledge his ridiculous story about people cheering on 9/11

BTW the story is NOT ridiculous. It has been proved several times over. The reason The Donald owns the media is because they are galactically stupid and agenda driven to the point that truth doesn't enter into their pronouncements.

4 posted on 12/03/2015 12:37:53 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ha! Beat them up and take their lunch money!! :)


5 posted on 12/03/2015 12:38:12 PM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Another far left rant from “The Verge” a bona fide left wing rag pretending to be a tech site.
6 posted on 12/03/2015 12:38:49 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A rant from the hiipsters at the Verge.

It’s supposed to be a rech nlog, but they obviouslyare following in the footsteps of Gawker.


7 posted on 12/03/2015 12:39:00 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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8 posted on 12/03/2015 12:40:05 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Translation: Trump brings to light something the MSM thought they had safely stuffed down the memory hole. They then have to scramble to discredit Trump and make him out to be a liar, but slowly the truth trickles out as millions of people scour the internet and their personal files to recover that which was given the memory hole treatment.

Then ordinary people say to themselves “gee, I guess he was right,” and the MSM has a snit.


9 posted on 12/03/2015 12:40:14 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The mainstream medi and the RINO GOP elites created Donald Trump by their lying and their inaction, respectively.


10 posted on 12/03/2015 12:40:43 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: Don Corleone
The reason The Donald owns the media is because they are galactically stupid and agenda driven to the point that truth doesn't enter into their pronouncements.

Scream it from the mountaintops! TRUTH!

11 posted on 12/03/2015 12:41:23 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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I was snooping around the DUmp the other day, and there was a thread titled Donald Trump is BROKE!

He based this assessment on how little money was in Trump’s political warchest...you know, the warchest by which we judged Romney and for a short while Jeb as the likely primary winner.

But none of that matters now. Trump doesn’t need to spend money. He gets more free coverage every day than Jeb could buy with a month’s worth of Karl Rove’s money.


12 posted on 12/03/2015 12:44:39 PM PST by lacrew
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Not only does owns the Lib Moonbat media, he owns the competition. He owns the GOP presidential field. He owns Hillary and every dingbat candidate they could throw up against him. Say hello President Trump.


13 posted on 12/03/2015 12:44:53 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Steely Tom

I just love to see Trump kick the LSM’s butt up and down the street all day long, day after day, week after week, month after month.


14 posted on 12/03/2015 12:46:37 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: lacrew

‘zactly. Trump is a MediaMaster.


15 posted on 12/03/2015 12:47:38 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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Do I have this correct? The author of this article is whining because the media doesn't get to censor the news and frame the narrative anymore.

Wow.

16 posted on 12/03/2015 12:55:31 PM PST by grania
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“When Trump wanted to share racist statistics on crime that were conjured by white supremacists”

I hadn’t heard about this. Possibly the bedwetter author is angry if someone cites FBI crime statistics by race?


17 posted on 12/03/2015 12:58:15 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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Trump maybe the owner of the media, but does Trump view Jerusalem as the undesputed capital of Israel ?

Heard Trump getting some booos from the audience in his question and answer time there about that. His answer didn’t make to many happy.


18 posted on 12/03/2015 1:00:31 PM PST by American Constitutionalist ( because the Constitution matters.)
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To: lacrew
He based this assessment on how little money was in Trump’s political warchest...you know, the warchest by which we judged Romney and for a short while Jeb as the likely primary winner.

Wealth in many ways is like nukes. Just having it without resorting to actual use can give you power. Even though after WWII neither the U.S. nor the USSR had actually used nukes outside of testing, there was no question as to who the big dogs were and why.

For anyone who wants to spend money against Donald Trump, he can escalate as far as necessary and then some, and everyone knows that. They'd rather save their money for another day, and so would he.
19 posted on 12/03/2015 1:00:49 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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I hadn’t heard about this. Possibly the bedwetter author is angry if someone cites FBI crime statistics by race?

he picked a questionable state that had black on white crime at 97% or so. It's high, but not that high.
20 posted on 12/03/2015 1:02:22 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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