Posted on 07/07/2017 7:01:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
'Good publicity is preferable to bad,' said Donald Trump in his best-selling book Art of the Deal, 'but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.'
Never has this mantra seemed more appropriate than today.
Trump's savagely personal assault on the US mainstream media - aka the MSM - in the past week has ignited a firestorm of controversy and bad publicity.
It began when he tweeted that MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski was 'low IQ crazy Mika' and claimed she had been 'bleeding badly from a face-lift' during a New Year's Eve visit to Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort.
This was obviously a grotesquely offensive thing for the President of the United States to publicly state about anyone.
To say it about a woman, any woman, also smacks of crass misogyny.
But before we martyr poor Ms Brzezinksi too fervently, it is worth pointing out that she herself is no innocent little lamb in the personal abuse stakes.
The reason for Trump's tirade was that she spent the previous day's 'Morning Joe' repeatedly mocking him for his 'teensy hands'.
In fact, she devotes a lot of her time to ridiculing Trump for the way he looks and behaves.
And let's not be naïve here, she does it knowing full well that Trump will eventually retaliate, and when he does, she and her show will dominate the news for a few days and get a substantial ratings boost.
Those increased ratings lead to increased profits.
Controversy, in short, sells.....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Piers is right. Trump is winning, and the media is winning a boat load of consequences. This will set a precedent for Journalism school policies for teaching for years to come. Watch.
That’s because she can’t refute it...
From all appearances CNN is not winning
From all appearances CNN is not winning
“Journalism” is a trade, not a profession, imo. Anyone who can string a coherent sentence together can practice it. Most J-school majors are English majors who flunked out.
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