As of November 28, 2016, Twitter Accounts, can someone please update to where this has grow as of today, please.
@POTUS has 12.3 million followers
@realDonaldTrump has 16.3 million followers
I agree with Kaplan's Tweet, he clearly understands Trump and he fears him, poor fellow.
It's too bad for the media. Sucks to be them, they have lost their power! Their false biased concocted headlines have had the same effect on generations of Americans. The only thing that differs is that he reaches people instantly and they had to wait for people to buy their papers and read their leftist propaganda. Most people do not bother to read past the headline and the media has effectively manipulated public opinion to the detriment of us all. Now the power to do the same is in President Trump's hands, or fingers- literally.
— Fred Kaplan (@fmkaplan) Nov. 27, 2016 Part of the concern is that Mr. Trump’s Twitter posts can have a ripple effect in the media ecosystem. Producers of morning shows and newspaper assignment editors wake up to head-turning statements from the future leader of the free world; those remarks sometimes dominate coverage for hours. Even if journalists insert caveats or clearly label a statement as false, the remarks still reach a large audience.
In 20 days, he’s picked up another million Twitter followers
17.3 million today @realDonaldTrump
After a hundred years of being in business, the NY Slimes STILL doesn't know what "news" is.
Their problem isn't in figuring what's news and what isn't news. Their problem is how do they keep losing control of what they put out that's supposed to harm Trump.
“...or clearly label a statement as false, the remarks still reach a large audience.”
“FALSE” by whose standards.
The left has for years blurred the line between true and false until all is grey.
So just because a journalist does not believe something is no longer enough to make a statement “false”.
If they believe something is false, prove the TWEET is false not some straw man that you created is false.
I think they should start cleaning up their own house before going after Trump - who fact checks journalist, or editorials, or letters to the editor?
If they don’t report it, it’s Fake News by omission.
Of course it’s news.
While FreeRepublic and Huffington post can publish or refuse to publish what they wish, the First Amendment being their protector, COX or ATT or Verizon cannot refuse to allow conference calls among members of Democrats or Republicans based upon their political bent. The same should now apply to Twitter and Facebook.
Facebook and Twitter have grown beyond mere social media status. They are now de facto public utilities and as such should not be allowed to censor political speech.
If the New York Times publishes it...is it true?
Yes, and more accurate than ANYTHING the makeup chair crack whores are paid to spit out on broadcast media.
It’s over MSM. O.V.E.R.
What they are really saying is that the NY Slime is the only entity allowed to judge what is “news.” More than ever, it is “all the news that fits.”
Gatekeeper status: Denied!
F’ing idiots.
I love it. Of COURSE it is a quandary for them! They want ALL news to be filtered and disseminated by them, not anyone else including Trump.
I love it. They have no idea, and Trump seems not to give a damn if he should or shouldn’t tweet.
If the New York Times reports it, is it news?
By what standard is ‘news’ news? Is there a required truth content, or as much guaranteed content as Chinese food products?
I take it that the concept of “News” exists only in the MSM? If it’s not originated from the MSM it isn’t “News”?
(sarc) NYT June 5 1877 editorial...”President Grant is creating a stir and causing many to question whether he is behaving in a presidential manner. He has been using the ‘telephone’, a relatively new device which transmits sound, and has been used to conduct frivolous pranks, among other new fangled and dubious activities. Previous presidents have used the telegraph, and many wonder why the tried and true method is being subverted by the president. Many in the press have been critical of the rogue device. Ranking senators Linda Graham and Juan MacPain deplored the president’s impertinence, saying he is setting a reckless precedent for future-presidents” (/s)
These are evil sick people and we need to stop tolerating them. Not repeat the president’s “lies”?? Obama just lied ten times yesterday and they loved it.
What the MNM is trying to lie about is that if you don’t get your news from them then it can not be news.
This is because Trump is making them as obsolete as the VCR by going directly to the social media.
The liars at the big networks just financially castrated themselves with the anti-Trump propaganda they have been trying to pass off as news for the last year. They got caught by history and exposed as the liars they are.
The biased MNM is now struggling for financial survival but they are going to fail.
Whatever the president says tweets etc is NEWS. Trump is NOW the only acting president we have.