Posted on 07/09/2016 5:01:11 AM PDT by kristinn
Donald Trump, in a sharp shift in strategy, is now refusing to appear on many television outlets, and top advisers who want to limit his exposure are no longer notifying him of every interview request.
According to sources familiar with the campaign, one faction is worried that the constant rounds of interviews entail too much risk of the candidate making mistakes or fanning minor controversies, even though his mastery at driving the media agenda helped power his Republican primary victory.
A series of clashes over these and other tactical questions has caused Trump himself to openly question who is running his campaign, the sources say. And he has expressed anger when he believes his orders aren’t being followed.
On the media front, Trump is no longer appearing on CNN or MSNBC. He is staying off the Sunday talk shows. Nearly all his national television interviews since June 1 have been with Fox News.
This more restrictive approach, combined with recent incidents in which some aides have acted contrary to Trump’s wishes, suggests a power shift as his children and especially his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, play an increasingly influential role.
Trump, who has resumed his full-throated denunciations of the media—such as calling CNN the Clinton News Network—personally vetted every TV invitation for most of the campaign. Now the staff is weeding out many requests without consulting him, the sources say, which could either be viewed as a mark of professionalization or an attempt to restrain Trump from being Trump.
Those in the caution camp want to avoid any repetition of Trump’s March sitdown with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, when he stumbled in suggesting that women should be punished for abortions. They do not share the candidate’s boundless confidence in taking on all media adversaries.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Many a good candidate has been ruined by his advisors advocating ‘play it safe’.
FOX “News”, run by Team Romney-Soros continues
to smear Mr. Trump with madeup, fabricated, stories
put out by the RAT Romney (who still covets the postion
and wants it without even having run this time).
Too many “ advisors”
All self important political managers
Donald. , ckean house
Get rid of half your “ advisirs” who ever worked for a losing campaign
Do it now
This is another hit piece. As if there aren’t disputes within any campaign.
I agree.
There is only one more week until the GOP convention. Look for a lot of this, this week.
[ There is only one more week until the GOP convention. Look for a lot of this, this week]
Yup. The media know there is a coup brewing and are doing everything they can to escalate it.
He did.not suggest woman should be.punished for.abortions.... As usual every media outlet spins and lies.... He was asked a hypothetical question that basically said.that if the.law.said woman are forbidden from abortion and they do it should they be allowed to break the law without.consequence. trump answered the hypothetical trap question in a sincere and philosophically correct way. But the media will never reframe.the context. Just like when Trump called McCain names the media never tells the audience how McCain trashed all the people that came to Trump’s rally first.
Howard Kurtz
The Washington Post[edit]
Kurtz joined the staff of the Washington Post in 1981 and left in 2010 (29 years). He served there as a national affairs correspondent, New York bureau chief, and deputy national editor.[5] Kurtz covered the press since 1990 for The Washington Post,[6] and is widely read within the journalism business.[citation needed] His last day at The Washington Post was October 15, 2010.[7]
Reliable Sources on CNN[edit]
From 1998 until 2013, Kurtz served as host of the weekly CNN program Reliable Sources, a cable television program that explores the standards, performance and biases of the media.[8] Kurtz led the scrutinizing of the media’s fairness and objectivity by questioning journalists of top news organizations, including those at CNN.[9] The show premiered in 1992 when it originated as a one-hour special to discuss the media’s coverage of the Persian Gulf War.[10]
The Daily Beast[edit]
In October 2010, Kurtz announced that he was moving to the online publication The Daily Beast.[11] He served as the Washington bureau chief for the website, writing on media and politics until 2013.[12][13] His salary at The Daily Beast was reported to be $600,000 a year.[14] On May 2, 2013, the site’s editor-in-chief Tina Brown announced that Kurtz and The Daily Beast had “parted company”.[15] Though this occurred in the aftermath of a controversy in which Kurtz incorrectly accused NBA player Jason Collins of failing to acknowledge a former heterosexual engagement when he came out as a homosexual, Kurtz stated that the parting was mutual and “in the works for some time”.[16][17][18] Sources inside the Daily Beast newsroom have stated that Kurtz’s departure became inevitable once he began dedicating more of his working hours to writing for and promoting a lesser-known media website called Daily Download.[19][20] Brown later said on Twitter she fired Kurtz for “serial inaccuracy”.[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kurtz
Written by Howard Kurtz who’s hardly a fan of Trump.
I say Let Trump be Trump.
He handled himself by himself brilliantly during the primaries, with stunning results.
I don’t think he allows these Lilliputian advisers the last word.
My gut tells me Trump needs to be Trump and he needs to be in charge, period. His successful track record says it all.
2016 is an updated version of 1964
Republicans doing their damnedest to elect a Democrat president.
A reduction of exposure prior to the Convention builds anticipation.
If anyone understands how to control and manipulate the media narrative, it's Trump.
This is cr**. It’s still Trump’s call. “Advisor” is just that.
Really. You haven’t watched it recently then. No such thing is happening there. At least not on the AM shows.
gossip
Throttle not the Trump!!!
How does Fox even think they know what is going on in Trump’s campaign? More of the media making things up to make Trump look bad.
Don’t fall for it.
I think his kids are more in charge now than before. I noticed when he met with House GOP, Ivanka was with him and his son Eric has been all over Fox. I think it’s all a good thing even though I hate to see Hillary ads 24/7 in Florida with no response.
Trump got lucky this past week with Comey laying out everything Hillary did wrong with the emails, then Dallas happens and freezes the news cycle. The Rasmussen poll showed most people think she should have been indicted and with no way she could break thru to counter it, that will be the last image voters have of the issue.
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