Posted on 11/30/2016 7:46:59 AM PST by shove_it
Since Election Day, President-elect Donald J. Trump has proposed a U-turn in American diplomatic relations with Cuba, boasted about negotiations with a major manufacturer, trumpeted false claims about millions of illegal votes and hinted that he might upend current free speech laws by banning flag burning.
All in 140 characters or less.
As news organizations grapple with covering a commander in chief unlike any other, Mr. Trump’s Twitter account — a bully pulpit, propaganda weapon and attention magnet all rolled into one — has quickly emerged as a fresh journalistic challenge and a source of lively debate.
How to cover a president’s pronouncements when they are both provocative and maddeningly vague? Does an early-morning tweet amount to a planned shift in American policy? Should news outlets, as some readers argue, ignore clearly untrue tweets, rather than amplify falsehoods further?
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“trumpeted false claims about millions of illegal votes”
Prove they are false. Go ahead, examine all the ballots and prove they were cast by citizens. We’ll wait, NYT.
There is no such thing as “news” at this point. There is only “persuasion”.
All of the MSM pundits and anchors want to persuade people that Trump is a monster and the voters were wrong and Progressives should still be calling all the shots. Sending out this propaganda message and persuading people to believe this is what the “news business” does for a living.
It all makes sense now. The Bushes “play” — as in “fool” — us conservatives. They pretend to be us while ripping us off and setting us up for globalist elites same as Dems do. This is why, when the MSM attacked Bush, he just hung his head and said, “Yep. I’m bad, sure am, sorry. Won’t defend myself in any way shape or form.”
Dear New York Time,
You’re right. They are not news. Please ignore them.
Then everyone will ignore you.
And we’ll all be happy.
I’m not sure why, but I know I read Trump, Bill Mitchell, Scot Biao and others and I don’t have a twitter account. Maybe because theirs of public and others block people who don’t follow them. I read them on my Ipad. Maybe try to read trumps and see if it works.
Good point. We are supposed to pay these shifty bastards money for their skillful twisting of the President Donald’s words. Ha ha ha! Really??
FreeRepublic is Social Media.
Ok, thanks
You might be right - but a twitter account costs nothing. And you never have to tweet or follow anyone. Sign up for the app, and that way when you click on a Twitter link on the web it will put you straight to the tweet on the app. Worth it.
Did we ever find out who pays for these reporters’ trips and food and hotels? If it is we taxpayers, that needs to STOP. The taxpayers should not be forced to let liars lie to them at our own expense!
Let them do it, let Twitter suspend our President! Gab is coming up, maybe a freer twitter. Twitter is definitely not a free speech proponent. But if The President Donald is using Twitter, they’d be stupid to ban him. Twitter would thereafter instantly become leftists only and the IQ on tweets would sink.
Note to NY Times, you no longer matter, so print or don’t print, will anyone notice.
Trump’s message will get out to the public without going through a liberal filter.
Will the last employee out the door please turn off the lights.
Yes, in a sense. But you can maintain your privacy if you wish. Much of social media - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram - has become platforms for over sharing the mundane and trivial aspects of life. Much of it truly is fake and filtered. No one shares selfies on FR!
Cute choo choo, woo hoo!
;) Otter
MSM FLUMMOXED ALERT!
HAHAHA!
Love it! They don’t entirely control the message.
It is news if Trump tweets, whether one wants to read it or not. The Tweet may be important, may not be, but it is “news”.
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