Trump doesn’t need nor want the media to “filter” his statements, especially when the filtering consists of censoring out what his base would like, and emphasizing anything likely to create a negative impression.
On Fox today, in a segment about whether Trump’s tweets should be considered “news”, one of the talking heads made the point that Trump’s twitter account has 16.6 million followers. This is more than the average number of people who watch cable news.
When you consider the number of people actively turning off the media, I would say it could be considered essential. I would like to have him taunt them by saying most of the people who elected me never watch you.
16 million nearly equals the audience of ABC, NBC, and CBS.
The dead media....