Posted on 12/11/2020 5:00:10 AM PST by Kaslin
Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza recalled an unusual question the president asked him when he visited the White House in early 2020.
“What do you think I should do?” asked the president referring to his career after leaving the White House. D’Souza didn’t hesitate to suggest the president -- who had been tormented by the mainstream media for four years -- launch his own independent news network.
He envisioned the president breaking the chokehold Big Media has exerted on news cycles broadcasting 24/7 ((i.e. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, etc.). The president responded with: “You mean give up real estate?” That is exactly what D’Souza had in mind for a president who watched Big Media fuse their election coverage into the Joe Biden campaign.
Trump must have experienced a sense of deja vu watching Big Media collude with Biden’s campaign, after having campaigned for “Team Hillary” In 2016. Campaign advisor Steve Bannon offended the sensibilities of leftist reporters by accurately labeling them as “the enemy.” “Things are only going to get worse,” he predicted of their four-year tantrum to come.
Placating a “corrupt” media wasn’t a part of Trump’s playbook. He set a new tone for fighting back against a mainstream media slavishly devoted to fixed narratives -- better known to conservatives as “fake news.”
Now CNN reporters had to contend with chants of “fake news” from loyal Trump supporters as they attempted to deliver their asymmetrical reporting at Trump rallies, or out in the field. Trump was indefatigable in his confrontations with the media, and he would be no less formidable as a media mogul fighting for network ratings.
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If Trump is going to go the cable route then it’d be easier, quicker, and cheaper to get is financial backers to buy an existing outlet - OANN or Newsmax. If Trump wants a start up then get the backing for a streaming service. Like D’Souza said he has tens of millions of supporters who would be likely to subscribe.
Trump needs that and a third party or a party that supports MAGA candidates in both parties..
Lachlan Murdoch ran a hedge fund into the ground, losing 90% of investor capital. He is about to do the same to Fox News and News Corp. Trump will crush this inferior copy of Rupert.
Trump has acquired an understanding of the media as a business and as a political apparatus. He’d be a savvy and audience-attracting figurehead for a new network.
Also he’d be doing the country a service since the mainstream media is widely recognized to be part of the deep state.
An ex-President who has actually seen the inside, been given all the top-secret files and briefings, and who shoots straight with the American people starring on his own news network: an epic, media game-changer.
An amazingly popular 1-term ex-President who just had his second term brazenly stolen from him in the middle of the night - starring on his own network: lets just say the Dem's will surely regret the steal.
CNN is reportedly for sale.......
Well the third party worked great in 92...a Clinton plurality vote win and an EV landslide.
Great idea buy it an then fire 99% of the reporters...Jared allready owns a NYC Paper make it an empire shut down all the liars....Great idea
Oh the irony, but it's a damaged brand. I don't think Trump could overcome it.
The GOP is useless at the federal level....it is take over the party from top to bottom or start a new party....
Don’t fire them. Make them eat crow and then let them quit.
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