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He's a bullshit artist (Original Post) SHRED Sep 2016 OP
As long as M$M is making money off him, they will continue. If viewership RKP5637 Sep 2016 #1
ArtLESS. Orsino Sep 2016 #2
Trump is a celebrity. He makes news by just being trump The_Casual_Observer Sep 2016 #3
Maybe this event will finally wake them up. CNN was very pissed off. beaglelover Sep 2016 #4
Totally agree, and here's what to do about it... Starbuck2239 Sep 2016 #5
Excellent advice SHRED Sep 2016 #6
Thanks Starbuck2239 Sep 2016 #7
Grifter is the exact terminology benld74 Sep 2016 #8

RKP5637

(67,088 posts)
1. As long as M$M is making money off him, they will continue. If viewership
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 12:34 PM
Sep 2016

drops, they will drop him.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
2. ArtLESS.
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 12:35 PM
Sep 2016

We shouldn't credit Trump with smarts or talent. His bullshit simply plays well in the media.

It's not as though he has the ability to be anything other than what he is.

 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
3. Trump is a celebrity. He makes news by just being trump
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 12:38 PM
Sep 2016

Its just a fact. People are attracted to this for the entertainment value.
People voted in Arnold in California simply because they thought it would be "fun".
I think the same thing is going on now.

beaglelover

(3,460 posts)
4. Maybe this event will finally wake them up. CNN was very pissed off.
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 12:39 PM
Sep 2016

I didn't get the pissed off vibe from MSNBC too much. The entire press was rickrolled this morning.

Starbuck2239

(29 posts)
5. Totally agree, and here's what to do about it...
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 12:55 PM
Sep 2016

COMPLAIN. Email. Write. Call in. Post. I just sent CNN an email complaining about how they "covered" Drumpf's arrival this morning for 50 minutes. I also sent The Guardian an email complaining about a headline they posted this morning, using the slur "Democrat candidate Clinton," and they actually wrote me back agreeing with me, and said they'd try to correct it. Both emails took me about 90 seconds.

The Rs and cons have succeeded in scaring lots of msm gatekeepers to be SO afraid of looking like they have a "liberal bias" that they now bend over backwards to do anything to avoid it. So Drumpf gets a pass. And how did they accomplish this? BY COMPLAINING. By "playing" the refs. And they've succeeded.

We need to do the same. It does not take much energy to write media and complain, especially after you've done it once. Add their addresses to your email address accounts, and they pop up in a second. Then take 20 seconds to write a couple sentences. Tip: be civil, but let them know you're watching or listening, (or not) and why.

I've complained to "Meet the Press" and received a real response from a producer. I once wrote Brian Williams a letter (years ago) about him putting Rush Limbaugh on the 6:30 news and he (or someone) actually wrote me back.

Believe me, they are listening -- but to whom?

Starbuck2239

(29 posts)
7. Thanks
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 01:24 PM
Sep 2016

I just started at DU, and see there are hundreds of thousands of posts. I wonder what effect it might have had if just 10 percent of these comments had been sent to media (when/where appropriate).... Instead of always posting here and preaching to the choir.

Just a thought.

benld74

(9,901 posts)
8. Grifter is the exact terminology
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 01:33 PM
Sep 2016




A practitioner of confidence tricks; one who befriends another to take advantage of them, or gain something from them
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