Dana Milbank: Media should turn the tables on mistreatment by Trump

[spanone]

Donald Trump’s ban of Washington Post journalists has left other news outlets with a stark choice: your ratings or your responsibility as journalists in a free society?

Trump’s announcement that he is barring Post journalists from his events follows similar bans he put on reporters from Politico, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Gawker, Foreign Policy, Fusion, Univision, Mother Jones, the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Des Moines Register and the Daily Beast. Trump goons have been known to kick out undesirable reporters at Trump events.

For those journalists and media executives who still don’t share the view of Post Executive Editor Martin Baron that Trump’s action “is nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press,” it won’t be long before Trump comes for you, too.

Trump has said he’d “open up” libel laws – in other words, dispense with the First Amendment – to make it easier for him to sue news outlets. He has suggested that, if president, he would use antitrust laws to harass Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who owns the Post. And longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone has proposed that a President Trump seek retribution against CNN: “Turn off their FCC license.”

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/06/16/dana-milbank-media-should-turn-the-tables-on-mistreatment-by-trump/

[tonyt53]

1. The time has come and gone for the press to do just that. Ignore the prick.

[drray23]

2. the media outlets could start

by not broadcasting his campaign events. A few days ago I was in my car and listening to msnbc (i have sirius xm) . They cut to Trump and broadcastwd his rantings in full. I flip to CNN, same thing..
It was so infuriating.

[winetourdriver]

3. oops

I sense great butt hurt in the force.

[One Black Sheep]

4. One reason why this won't work is Fox news would never go along with it

Also, Trump has a huge youtube presence with conservative channels covering all his speeches.

Basically, all the right wing media would never participate in this sort of media blackout proposed.

Not in any way I can see, anyway.

[Scientific]

5. They choose ratings over responsibility. It's a Republican thing.

[One Black Sheep]

6. Yea, but more like a corporate thing

I was just thinking about this, let's say CNN announced they would no longer cover Trump, well, I bet MSNBC would then double down on Trump coverage, and see a ratings spike, because of less competition.

Basically, the corporate media really only cares about the bottom line, IMHO.