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Trump’s Attacks on the News Media Are Working
The New York Times ^ | October 28, 2018 | Jim Rutenberg

Posted on 10/28/2018 12:47:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

He was at it again.

At 3:14 a.m. on Friday, President Trump was awake and tweeting.

“Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing,” he wrote, “yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, ‘it’s just not Presidential!’”

He tapped that one out as federal authorities were investigating the 12 pipe bombs mailed to the billionaire George Soros, Democratic politicians, Robert De Niro and CNN. Hours later, Mr. Trump’s tweet was national news.

“President Blames Media For Attempted Bombs,” read the onscreen chyron on “Good Morning America” as an ABC News correspondent, Jonathan Karl, briefed the anchor George Stephanopoulos on the president’s latest digital sortie from the still-dark White House lawn.

So began Day 645 of a presidency that has made denigrating the news media one of its identifying features.

After mocking and insulting penned-in reporters on the campaign trail, Mr. Trump continued going after journalists the day after he was sworn in, over the size of his Inauguration Day crowd. Then came the “fake news,” “enemy of the people” negative branding campaign against those who would hold him to account.

Shortly before federal authorities arrested Cesar Sayoc Jr. — a registered Republican with a criminal record whose social media accounts were filled with right-wing conspiracy memes — the president was back on Twitter....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: internet; media; msm; trump; trumpmedia; winning
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To: jmacusa

I wish I was twenty eight again, if you want to go there.


41 posted on 10/28/2018 1:23:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PITY PARTY NYT


42 posted on 10/28/2018 1:23:57 PM PDT by Backin1998 (It's fun listening to the Liberals these days)
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To: kiryandil

Anderson “Vanderbilt” Cooper.


43 posted on 10/28/2018 1:24:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The News Media are liars and propagandist.Evil like the Democrat Party.


44 posted on 10/28/2018 1:26:16 PM PDT by Herman Ball
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To: Flick Lives
11 dead in the synagogue shooting and this MSM drone is back whining how mean the President is to the fake news.

The media is absolutely outraged that the guy who committed this senseless act of violence is on-record as not supporting Trump.

"How can this be?" they lament. "He's a white racist gun owner who hates immigrants! His views are just like Trump's voters!"

They just don't get it. They aren't getting it.

45 posted on 10/28/2018 1:27:12 PM PDT by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Leave coop alone. How can he do better when he thinks that Mexico is a continent


46 posted on 10/28/2018 1:31:37 PM PDT by italianquaker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The liberal media preaches to its own choir, whose members have been leaving for years.

Soon the only way people will know that the New York Times exists is because Donald Trump keeps attacking it.


47 posted on 10/28/2018 1:32:34 PM PDT by humbleexpert
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here we go. I have a correction:

“President Blames Media For Attempted Bombs,” read the onscreen chyron on “Good Morning America” as an ABC News correspondent, Jonathan Karl, briefed the anchor, former Clinton Administration official and Republican Critic George Stephanopoulos on the president’s latest digital sortie from the still-dark White House lawn.

48 posted on 10/28/2018 1:34:56 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Vote GOP this November. Take two friends to vote with you!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So began Day 645 of a presidency that has made denigrating the news media one of its identifying features.

Well Slimes, with a few rare exceptions, we don't have a news media in this country. We have an army of hyperpartisan hacks who merely masquerade as a news media. It has mostly been that way since the days of Edwin R. Murrow and has grown increasingly worse as the media has consolidated into fewer and fewer hands. Trump has done little more than expose it and you are screaming like a bunch of stuck pigs.

What he really ought to do is introduce you to Mr. Clayton and Mr. Sherman.

49 posted on 10/28/2018 1:36:13 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Alas Babylon!
ABCpropaganda
50 posted on 10/28/2018 1:37:43 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Drango

At which shop were his van window wraps produced?

What Day?

Who paid for them?


51 posted on 10/28/2018 1:38:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So these people really don’t know that the American eople despised them long before Trump ran for president? Just how dumb and utterly clueless are they?


52 posted on 10/28/2018 1:38:23 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yep.

AKA "In The Pooper" Cooper, probably taught well by some of Mommy's pervfriends...

53 posted on 10/28/2018 1:39:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Begin Day 645 of
The “ Media “
Bashing an Elected President!
.
What is Disturbing is
The same “Players”
Never bashed OBammy,,,
Am I Wrong?


54 posted on 10/28/2018 1:40:20 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Ministry of Propaganda is livid that anyone would call them out for their propaganda.


55 posted on 10/28/2018 1:41:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: NFHale
Funny... seems to me he’s just defending himself against THEIR lying bullshit attacks.

It's like the bloodied schoolyard bully whining "It all started when he hit back."

56 posted on 10/28/2018 1:42:53 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: Oatka

They’re not used to someone kicking THEIR asses for once.

It is YUGELY entertaining to watch.


57 posted on 10/28/2018 1:49:06 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: italianquaker

*** when he thinks that Mexico is a continent ***

If Mexico has it their way they would rename North America.


58 posted on 10/28/2018 1:52:09 PM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The NYT just can’t resist attacking Donald Trump.


59 posted on 10/28/2018 1:56:08 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Texas Eagle
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SOMEbody is in need of some some Dr. D.J. Trump’s Butt-hurt Salve.

Maybe the WH, out of pure empathy, will ship over a case.

60 posted on 10/28/2018 2:20:01 PM PDT by JPG (MAGA!)
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