WHERE's the FFFFFing coverage of the crooked Trump Foundation?

[Gabi Hayes]

can you believe they're barely discussing it at all, instead choosing to dwell endlessly on Trump's nauseating performance today, with tweety, that cretin, PRAISING his tone today. did he think Trump was wearing Dumbo's flight suit, or what?

Mission Accomplished, once again.

Mark Hertsgaard's book, On Bended Knee, looms very large in this campaign, in which Trump's behind the scenes guys took very seriously the photo op genius of Reagan's puppetmasters, in which the words that ran underneath the 'great' video op framing made NO difference to the gullible audiences who only saw the 2 bit actor playing the heroic president, even when the accompanying words were harshly critical. they didn't LISTEN to the words.

Trump is getting away with the exact same photo op prop BS

sickening to the core........

excerpt from a book that is commonly taught in journalism courses:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/On_Bended_Knee.html

The "killers" primarily responsible for generating positive press coverage of Reagan were Michael Deaver and David Gergen, and if they did not exactly get away with murder, they came pretty close. Deaver, Gergen and their colleagues effectively rewrote the rules of presidential image-making. On the basis of a sophisticated analysis of the American news media-how it worked, which buttons to push when, what techniques had and had not worked for previous administrations-they introduced a new model for packaging the nation's top politician and using the press to sell him to the American public. Their objective was not simply to tame the press but to transform it into an unwitting mouthpiece of the government; it was one of Gergen's guiding assumptions that the administration simply could not govern effectively unless it could "get the right story out" through the "filter" of the press.

The extensive public relations apparatus assembled within the Reagan White House did most of its work out of sight-in private White House meetings each morning to set the "line of the day" that would later be fed to the press; in regular phone calls to the television networks intended to influence coverage of Reagan on the evening news; in quiet executive orders imposing extraordinary new government secrecy measures, including granting the FBI and CIA permission to infiltrate the press. It was Mike Deaver's special responsibility to provide a constant supply of visually attractive, prepackaged news stories-the kind that network television journalists in particular found irresistible. Of course, it helped enormously that the man being sold was an ex-Hollywood actor. As James Lake, press secretary of the Reagan-Bush campaign, acknowledged, Ronald Reagan was "the ultimate presidential commodity . . . the right product."

The Reagan public relations model was based on a simple observation, articulated to me by longtime Reagan pollster Richard Wirthlin: "There's no question that how the press reports [on] the President influences how people feel about the President. People make up their minds on the basis of what they see and hear about him, and the press is the conduit through which they get a lot of their information." Because the news media were the unavoidable intermediary between the President and the public, Wirthlin, Deaver, Gergen, Baker and their colleagues focused their talents on controlling to the maximum extent possible what news reports said about the President and his policies. The more influence they could exercise over how Reagan's policies were portrayed in the press; the greater were the White House's chances of implementing those policies without triggering widespread disaffection or endangering Mr. Reagan's re-election chances.


To be sure, Reagan's was hardly the first administration to establish a public relations apparatus within the White House. But few, if any, administrations had exalted news management to as central a role in the theory and practice of governance as Reagan's did. Leslie Janka, a deputy White House press secretary who resigned in protest after the administration excluded the press from the Grenada invasion, went so far as to say, "The whole thing was PR. This was a PR outfit that became President and took over the country. And to the degree then to which the Constitution forced them to do things like make a budget, run foreign policy and all that, they sort of did. But their first, last, and overarching activity was public relations."

What made relations with the press especially vital to the success of Reagan's presidency was the fact that much of his agenda was at odds with popular sentiment. On the basic political issues f his day, Ronald Reagan was much farther to the right than the majority of his fellow citizens. (Contrary to the widely accepted conventional wisdom of the time, American mass opinion in the late 1970s and early 1980s was not galloping to the right. As political economists Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers have demonstrated, public opinion was shifting, if anything, slightly leftward during that period, with Reagan's policies themselves apparently providing some of the impetus.)

[uponit7771]

1. 20% of air time over 18 months needs to be spent on the tRump Foundation !!!

[Gabi Hayes]

2. well....there are less than sixty days that matter at all.

it should have STARTED eighteen months ago

might already be too late, just like climate change

that train left the station YEARS ago

some fun is going to be up on that front

sell your coastal property soonest!

[Gabi Hayes]

6. make that less than FIFTY!

the horror

the horror

who's fatter? Trump, or Brando, when he made Apocalypse Now?

[OhZone]

3. NPR discussed it tonight on NY radio. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

4. HUUUUUUGE audience for that, right?

WADR, if it's not on TV over and over and over, like the emails, for example, it will NOT make an iota of difference

repetition is key

and, everybody, if you read any political books this year, read Hertsgaard's classic

OR

The Hunting of the President

OR

Fools for Scandal

[OhZone]

9. Well, yeah , it needs to be more than NPR, but -

you'd be surprised how much they don't report on anything.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. no...I would not. Does the name Kevin Klose ring a bell?

NPR has been a useless, toothless tool of the corporate hierarchy since Bush the dumber

[Gabi Hayes]

5. Chris Hayes teased it in his number two slot at the start of his show,

as I was typing the OP

CNN....crickets

they're running a seg on the shooting of yet another unarmed African American, this time in Charlotte

[Gabi Hayes]

7. CNN continues Black Crime saga; going to Trump/StopnFrisk next.

no mention of his crooked foundation so far

I imagine they'll get to it, but they have other fish to fry at this point

MSNBC still on the shootings, too.

they WILL do the foundation, though....they promised

[malaise]

8. They're spreading more of his lies

like his recent 'love' for African Americans

[Gabi Hayes]

10. only HIS African Americans...the ones he'd like to own, like when

Amerika was GREAT!

bring back the GREAT old songs by Steven Foster!

my favorite was Camptown Races....or was it Old Black Joe

ever seen the C**n Chicken ads?

[Gabi Hayes]

11. Hayes going with it now:

$250,000 plus to pay for lawsuits

now quoting Pence saying there were factual errors, declining to point ANY out, then showing Trump campaign reassertion that the story was wrong, then not answering any requests for amplification

pretty damning stuff so far, showing clip of him bragging about using OPM!

[Gabi Hayes]

13. not even FiVE FFFFFing minutes for Hayes on this!!!!

when are they going to get back to Hillary's emails?

wait....they accomplished their purpose with that, to Swiftboatingly devastating effect, didn't they?

good job, liberal media

[Gabi Hayes]

14. FFFFFing CNN going with the Wiener sexting scandal now!

still NO mention of the crooked foundation

what a surprise

what's next? a follow up on the woman who got her face eaten off by her pet chimp?

[kacekwl]

15. Some deep dark place where the corporate

media mogals keep it in reserve when they need a favor from Trumpet.

[Gabi Hayes]

16. like not bringing out the 105mm howitzers and parking them in front of their offices?

[treestar]

17. It is so blatant

There is a lot more there than to the emails yet they show no interest.

[Gabi Hayes]

18. so many similarities to what they did to Gore and Kerry.

this time they did it much more on their own, without the republican shill/big money behind the scenes prompting, ala T Boone Pickens and his Swiftboat Bountying