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In reply to the discussion: Cohen gives credit where it's due: "The free press gave America Trump." [View all]gulliver
(13,168 posts)33. They've learned a lot. They're fine. Except Fox "News"...
...which should go down with the SS Trump.
Thanks to Trump, the legitimate news now has a new arsenal of tactics and publication guidance. They screwed up. No doubt about it. You can tell they know it by what they've been doing now with all the trivial, dummy-bait stories Trump used to thrive so much on.
Trump II pops up, and he or she's going to be tromped by the legitimate media and, if I had to guess, even in Republican bubble porn entertainment sources such as Fox News.
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Cohen gives credit where it's due: "The free press gave America Trump." [View all]
kpete
Sep 2020
OP
In Mary Trump's book she alluded that most of the press has been giving the trump family
still_one
Sep 2020
#1
He says specifically in the quote that he does not mean free as in freedom of expression.
enough
Sep 2020
#5
They knew it was bullshit, and they spread it with great enthusiasm - verbatim, at no charge.
dalton99a
Sep 2020
#12
Oh for sure! They all did. They showed his rallies every damn day, from preshow to end.
hedda_foil
Sep 2020
#17
Will the Corporate Media do it again on election night before all the votes are counted?
jalan48
Sep 2020
#14
Trump's like COVID. The US free press "immune system" had never encountered something so bad.
gulliver
Sep 2020
#18