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kpete's JournalFraming Trump
the right & wrong way to frame this. .
https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/802988701156511744
for those of you who have not seen this:
https://www.balloon-juice.com/
"Dump Tower"
Trump Tower temporarily changed to 'Dump Tower' on Google Maps:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/27/trump-tower-changed-dump-tower-google-maps-reports-say/94506532/
"Only in America"
Only in America could a man for whom truth is an inconvenient concept feel comfortable referring to his opponent as “lying” and “crooked.”
Only in America, a nation built on a history of immigration, could a man who married two immigrants—one of whom is alleged to have worked illegally when she first arrived—run on an anti-immigration platform.
Only in America could a man with a legendary reputation for stiffing small-business owners and wage laborers be able to pass himself off as a champion of the little guy.
Only in America could a man whose résumé of failed businesses and alleged sexual harassment is so miserable that he would have trouble finding work at a copy shop be named chief executive of the world’s largest economy.
way more:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/graydon-carter-donald-trump-president
Yellow Journalism/Orange President
The US media’s commercial nature is great for business, terrible for democracy.Media institutions help set agendas and frame political debates each election cycle. But with Trump, they helped normalize and legitimize a candidate who never should’ve come close to attaining such power. Through false equivalence and a lack of substantive policy coverage, the media elevated a far-right politics that should’ve been delegitimized the moment it reared its head.
News media’s constant coverage boosted Trump’s visibility and popularized his message. The benefit, however, was mutual. Even as Trump attacked the press — mocking and feuding with journalists, threatening to change libel laws, holding campaign events where reporters were corralled and roughed up — he still served major media outlets well. That’s because the news organizations covering Trump, particularly television stations, reaped incredible amounts of money from their election coverage. Cable news organizations’ expected haul this election season? A record-breaking $2.5 billion.
This drive for profit helps explain news media’s fixation on Trump’s campaign over his competitors’, especially in the primary season’s early days. One study calculated that, in 2015, Trump received 327 minutes of nightly broadcast network news coverage, compared with Hillary Clinton’s 121 minutes and Bernie Sanders’ 20 minutes. The New York Times reported that Trump garnered nearly $2 billion in free media coverage during his primary campaign. Other estimates place it closer to $3 billion.
Profit-seeking is in commercial media’s DNA, and the always-controversial Trump was money in the bank for ratings-driven news outlets. As CBS CEO Leslie Moonves admitted earlier this year: “(Trump’s candidacy) may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” He went on to say: “The money’s rolling in and this is fun . . . this is going to be a very good year for us . . . bring it on, Donald. Keep going.”
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While it’s tempting to blame audiences for lapping up this coverage, commercial media do not simply give people what they want. The problem is more on the supply side. Media are primarily designed to satisfy advertisers’ and media owners’ profit imperatives. Trump’s screen-to-screen exposure during the campaign season didn’t just reflect audience desires; rather, it served as bait for their attention.
Audience eyeballs are the coveted product that media deliver to advertisers. And to keep our attention, media must entertain us. Trump performs this role wonderfully. He keeps ratings high and ad sales strong. He is pure gold for commercial media’s bottom line, no matter how vacuous their coverage
MORE:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/media-advertising-news-radio-trump-tv/
NYT: Trump's business has been "preparing to capitalize" on the presidency since last spring
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/802861890447806465
Man outside of a mosque in Texas this morning speaks for me.
https://twitter.com/stressedmuslim/status/802560701718003712
https://twitter.com/CharlesFinch/status/802549990451073024
AMEN.
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https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/11/27/sunday-morning-open-thread-resist/
The Clinton campaign have decided to support the recount.
It should go without saying that we take these concerns extremely seriously. We certainly understand the heartbreak felt by so many who worked so hard to elect Hillary Clinton, and it is a fundamental principle of our democracy to ensure that every vote is properly counted.
Moreover, this election cycle was unique in the degree of foreign interference witnessed throughout the campaign: the U.S. government concluded that Russian state actors were behind the hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the personal email accounts of Hillary for America campaign officials, and just yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the Russian government was behind much of the “fake news” propaganda that circulated online in the closing weeks of the election.
For all these reasons, we have quietly taken a number of steps in the last two weeks to rule in or out any possibility of outside interference in the vote tally in these critical battleground states.
MORE:https://medium.com/@marceelias/listening-and-responding-to-calls-for-an-audit-and-recount-2a904717ea39#.mxwv6ui2z
Elias, a go-to lawyer for Democrats in recount fights and redistricting battles, has now taken a prominent and somewhat controversial place among the coalition of groups challenging a wave of state election laws that were rewritten in recent years
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/26/1604370/-Quick-Hit-Marc-Erik-Elias-lawyer-for-the-Clinton-Campaign
This is how we ALL have to react.
People in an Albuquerque grocery store have the right response to hate.
Barney Lopez was in the store at Coal and Yale when it happened around 9:30 a.m. He remembers walking in and passing the woman with the head scarf as she was checking out.
“I went down the aisle to go get sodas and then all of a sudden I hear somebody starting to yell at her,” he recalls, “And they’re saying things like ‘Get out of our country, you don’t belong here, you’re a terrorist!’”
At that point, Lopez says, practically everyone in the store stopped what they were doing and ran to the defense of the woman in hijab.
Lopez snapped a picture, albeit a bit shaky, of the person screaming at the woman in the hijab. The lady is wearing a hat and sunglasses. A Smith’s employee appears to stand in the way to keep her back.
“There was even another woman that like went over to the woman in the hijab and put her arm around her and gave her hug and held her while the Smith’s employees came,” he says.
Employees shuffled the shouting lady out of the store, but Lopez says the screaming woman waited in the parking lot for the woman in the hijab to come out.
“So all the Smith’s employees gathered around this woman and escorted her to her car and helped her load her groceries,” he recalled
http://krqe.com/2016/11/24/picture-captures-person-accosting-woman-wearing-hijab-at-smiths/?cid=facebook_KRQE_News_13
One dictator gone, and one being sworn in to take over U.S.
Castro dead, & many in FL cheering b/c they’d never get behind an authoritarian, media-saavy leader who aligns w/Moscow, attacks protestors
https://twitter.com/MSignorile/status/802519551174815744
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