Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump makes it explicit: Negative coverage of him is fake coverage
Trump makes it explicit: Negative coverage of him is fake coverage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/09/trump-makes-it-explicit-negative-coverage-of-him-is-fake-coverage/?utm_term=.2d11f1124afe
by Philip Bump May 9 at 9:17 AM
A generous interpretation of President Trumps views on fake news is that he believes that media outlets are overly quick to be critical of his decisions and his administration. In other words, he applies an overly broad term to a perceived phenomenon for which there can at least be an argument made.
Theres no evidence that this is the boundary that Trump observes, of course. We often consider Trumps actions as president through the lens of what presidents do instead of the lens of what Trump does. A president wouldnt simply wave away negative coverage as phony, contrived or dangerous to the country. Trump would. Hes made this clear since he launched his campaign, lashing out against news outlets that covered him critically, including barring them from his events. And he just made it explicitly clear.
Finding the balance between what Trump does and what a traditional president does is where media outlets can fall into the trap outlined in that first paragraph. Sometimes Trump does normal-president things, but theyre perceived negatively because its Trump doing them. In the case of his critiques of fake news, though, were pretty squarely in Trump territory as he illustrated in a tweet on Wednesday morning.
[Trump muses about yanking news media credentials in response to negative coverage]
He was spending his morning watching Fox and Friends, as he is wont to do, and up flashed a report from the Media Research Center stating that 91 percent of network news coverage of Trump from January through April was negative. The Media Research Center, well note, is part of the conglomerate of conservative enterprises funded by Robert Mercer and his family, the folks that also funded Cambridge Analytica, Breitbart and former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon.........................................
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
3 replies, 665 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (2)
ReplyReply to this post
3 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Trump makes it explicit: Negative coverage of him is fake coverage (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2018
OP
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,481 posts)1. Trumplethinskin cannot handle the truth.......
That he is, according to former SoS Rex Tillerson, "a FUCKING MORON!"
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)2. The only reality that matters is his own
everything else is fake and forbidden
Backwoodsrider
(764 posts)3. they are prepping the Trump base
...for some really BAD news
its going to be an exciting summer