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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCBS' John Dickerson: Trump Is "Trying To Define All News As Fake News"
https://mediamatters.org/video/2017/01/11/cbs-john-dickerson-trump-trying-define-all-news-fake-news/214987SCOTT PELLEY (HOST): It was hard to tell in the president-elect's news conference today whether he was more disgusted with his intelligence community or with the media. John Dickerson is here, our CBS News political director and anchor of Face The Nation. John, Mr. Trump is rewriting the relationship with the press.
JOHN DICKERSON: He is. All presidents try to do this. They try the control the message by controlling the press. Donald Trump is trying to do it through intimidation, to soften up the stories about him, but he's also seeking to delegitimize the press. That isn't to say -- he's not complaining about a specific story. He's saying that there is a battle between himself and the press and that's an attempt to basically take the value away from what the press does.
PELLEY: Let's have a look at something else he said in the news conference today.
[...]
PELLEY: So does Donald Trump need the press the way other presidents have?
DICKERSON: You see he's trying to define all news as fake news, and he can also use Twitter to get his message out. Usually presidents, in their attempts to control the press, fail because they ultimately need the press to get their message out. He has Twitter, he also has a following that is more apt to believe that the press is out to get Donald Trump.
But, his favorability ratings are about 43 percent. To get the rest of the country, to speak to the rest of the country, he needs the validation of the press to get his message across from something that's not just his own mouth, and that's where usually it breaks down for presidents who try and go after the press.
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CBS' John Dickerson: Trump Is "Trying To Define All News As Fake News" (Original Post)
TomCADem
Jan 2017
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babylonsister
(171,054 posts)1. Trump is imploding.
He knows not what he talks about.
niyad
(113,232 posts)2. hey, scott, until he is sworn in, it isn't HIS intelligence community.
and if you assholes had DONE YOUR JOBS, instead of kissing his ass and giving him billions in coverage, we would not be in this mess.
mountain grammy
(26,614 posts)4. Exactly!
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)3. News Trump doesn't like or disagrees with equals fake news.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)5. Fuck Trumpf.
herding cats
(19,558 posts)6. Not all news, just any that isn't favorable to him.
All they have to do is praise Trump as brilliant, sexy, manly, rich, amazing, awe inspiring, wonderful, etc., and he'll lay off. But, be warned, if you slip and report something unflattering (or print/post a photo of him from a bad angle) He will OWN you!!
What's so difficult to understand about that?!