Why is the corporate media encouraging Trump and repeating his message

[malaise]

of hate 24/7. Clearly they want the message spread far and wide.
Trump reminds me of an ignorant drunk who doesn't know shit about a damned thing but thinks he's an expert. Nothing he says is linked to a single fact.

[fredamae]

1. It's Corporate Messaging at it's Finest

It must be the direction They want the country to go in?

[99th_Monkey]

2. Is a great question.

Now on M$M it is ALL either about ISIS/Terror, the latest shooter(s) or Trump.

I've pretty much stopped watching altogether. I used to be a news junkie, but
my waders aren't high enough for this river of bullshit.

[malaise]

3. Same here

I find Cake Boss more interesting these days

[jeff47]

4. Same reason they talk about the Kardashians. Ratings. (nt)

[C_U_L8R]

5. Ratings

As long as there's an audience to monetize, they'll keep on covering car-crashes like the Republican Party

[daleanime]

6. Because if we're not scared enough.....

we might reject the rule of our corporate owners.

[malaise]

7. I can't wait to see which country will ban him first

for hate speech.
Don't rule out a golf course or two in the ME shutting him down. He's going to pay for this one

[daleanime]

11. God, I hope so....

his whole bit is really beginning to freak me out.

[Whiskeytide]

12. I'm not so sure about that...

... I think other countries banning him will stoke his supporters. They will take it as a personal affront by stoopid, wussy-fied, gunnless foreigners, and jump to his defense.

I expect a yooooge poll bump.

And if you're referring to global 1%ers wagging their fingers at him, I really don't think he cares. He's always - in my eyes - been more of an entertainer than a true mogul. I don't think they ever really accepted him.

[deminks]

8. to make more money

They love conflict cause more candidates will buy ads. Trump raises more money. He buys more ads. Sanders raises money off of Trump. He buys more ads. The MEdia wins!

[MohRokTah]

9. Eyes on glass.

Ratings.

In other words...

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[RecoveringJournalist]

15. ^^^^WE HAVE A WINNER^^^^

You put your terrorism in,
You pull your terrorism out,
You put some radicals in,
Then you shake it all about.

[kydo]

10. That was my first thought, "Why is the hair on my tv?" But then

I heard what he was spewing. Its crazy non sense bullshit sprinkled with tons of hate. Maybe they are trying to ruin him by showing us how hilterish he really is. Maybe this is the rnc's grand plan for getting rid of him. Give him the rope while talks let him do the rest. Sadly there are those that think he is great. Those people have lots of issue and are sick and really the minority. The sane people though will be able to see what a fool he is. Maybe that's the plan.....

But it does suck when you are in the "trump is idiot racist ego driven piece of hair that lies" camp. We are forced to watch him instead of the real news that matters.

[phantom power]

13. Because they've long forgotten how to do anything except both-siderism

Every time you had to “leave it there” after ideologies clashed mindlessly, fruitlessly. Every dubious truth claim you had to let pass because challenging it might interrupt the flow or make you sound too partisan. Every time you defaulted to “will it work?” when the bigger question was “is it so?” Every dutiful effort you made to “get the other side” without asking if the number of sides was really two. Every time you asked each other “what’s the politics of this?” so you could escape the tedium and complexity of public problem-solving. Every time you smiled weakly to say, “depends on who you ask” before launching into a description of public actors who dwell in separate worlds of fact. Every time you described political polarization as symmetrical when it isn’t. Every time you denied that being in the middle was a position so you didn’t have to ask if it was a defensible one. Every time you excluded yourselves from a faltering political class. Every pox you put on both houses because it felt good to float above it all. Every eye you rolled at the humorless scolds who rage at the White House Correspondents dinner. Every time you jeered at the popularity of “partisan media” without reminding yourself “…there goes our audience.” Every time you laughed at the Daily Show’s treatment of you with no companion sense of dread. (They’re on to us.) Every time you said “the truth is probably somewhere in the middle” when you really had no clue. Every time you pointed with pride to the criticism you were getting from both sides, assuming it meant you were doing something right when you might have been doing everything wrong. Every operative you turned into an expert. Every unprincipled winner you admired for their savvy. Every time you thought it was not up to you to judge when it was on you — especially on you — to assess, weigh and, yes, judge.

http://pressthink.org/2015/12/tone-poem-for-the-leave-it-there-press/

[sinkingfeeling]

14. He sounded like a ranting lunatic this morning on GMA. They did just a voice nterview and

OMG he was insane!

[Blue_Tires]

16. Because people have consistently been tuning in

Trump has been a huge ratings driver?

If DU is anything like my mom, then you all watch 2-3 hours of CNN/MSNBC commentary nightly just so you can get outraged over the latest Trump shenanigans...

[bullwinkle428]

17. It's the ultimate sick co-dependent relationship. Trump is addicted to attention

like few others walking the face of the earth, and the media is desperately ratings-driven. Remember Trump's "boycott" of Fox News? That didn't last too long, once he realized that a good chunk of his crowd never changes the channel from that one, and he couldn't possibly deprive them of his fountains of wisdom.