Posted on 10/24/2024 1:40:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Speaking to CBS News’s Lesley Stahl during his first presidential bid, Donald Trump made an unsurprising admission.
Stahl had asked Trump why he continued to disparage journalists and the news media, describing them as an enemy of the American people. Trump’s explanation wasn’t that the media had earned that disparagement or to concede some exaggeration. Instead, he admitted that it was tactical.
“I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you,” Stahl recalled Trump telling her.
Again, not surprising. But it does cast a different light on Trump’s recent disparagements of CBS News’s “60 Minutes” for the “UNPRECEDENTED SCANDAL” (as he put it) of editing Vice President Kamala Harris’s response to a question she was asked in an interview. Trump declined to participate in a similar interview after learning that the outlet planned to correct his false claims before the program aired. So, to disparage both CBS and Harris, he suggests that the network is biased — as he actively avoids the pro-truth bias inherent in being held to account for lying.
Trump didn’t create the sense on the political right that the news media was dominated by unreliable actors who are biased in favor of the left. There has been a decades-long project to both amplify actual examples of bias in the media and to more broadly shield the right by suggesting that unflattering reporting is simply a function of such bias. What Trump admitted doing in his conversation with Stahl, in other words.
New polling of swing-state voters conducted by The Washington Post and our partners at the Schar School found that, thanks in large part to that project, confidence in the media is low...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"Recalled?"
WTF? Leslie works for SeeBS. Everything she and Trump said would have been on video.
If she can only "recall" and there is no video evidence, she is telling another lie ala "Russia collusion."
So, only 80 percent of the population. That's good to know....
it’s gonna be a landslie in that case :)
“In 2020, anchor and interviewer Leslie Stahl attacked Trump’s accurate assertion that the Hunter Biden laptop (then in the possession of the FBI) was authentic”
Th old bag is a lying POS.
Everyone— nearly every person permanently distrusts the media... so this is no argument for the NY Slimes. Little Pinch Sulzburgers turd burger of a snoozepaper. All the slime that they fit in to print, to kill democracy in darkness (or something they want killed more).
“Whom”?
Really?
Come on folks, we can do betterer.
So Trump’s support depends on smart people who recognize the media for the unethical biased propagandist that they are.
But...anybody who trusts the media is too naive or stupid or both to vote....
Harris’s swing-state support depends on people who trust NPR/PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, Wash. Post.
This is why assuming Trump wins, the SCOTUS will prevent TikTok from getting banned on First Amendment grounds.
From the article: There has been a decades-long project to both amplify actual examples of bias in the media and to more broadly shield the right by suggesting that unflattering reporting is simply a function of such bias.
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Corresponding to the decades-long leftward movement of the media.
Coincidence? I think not!
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MOST OF US DONT TRUST THE MEDIA BECAUSE THEY EITHER LIE OR DISTORT.
FAKE NEWS .
Nice reply AND ON TARGET.
Most of us here knew the mass media were lying scumbags long before President Trump ran for President the first time.
They just kept on confirming that reality in the Trump era.
“Trump’s swing-state support depends on people who don’t trust the media” which is about 75% even counting Democrats.
“the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” - Thomas Jefferson
The more things change, the more they stay the same... 250 years later.
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