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TSheehan

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January 15, 2019

If he had to mention China, he could have said "They are both big threats; Russia is more dangerous

right now, but China is a more powerful long-term strategic competitor and threat."

That would have been a perfectly reasonable answer. Why did he deflect, indeed!

January 15, 2019

Glenn Greenwald is incredibly annoying and a disingenuous concern troll AT BEST.

At this rate he'll be openly endorsing Trump for reelection in 2020.

January 13, 2019

Don't impeach the motherfucker...

...CONVICT him, remove him from office, indict him, his family and associates, and all of the complicit Republican politicians, and lock them up!

January 11, 2019

The cruelty is the point - as is the chaos.

This is a feature, not a bug.

January 11, 2019

Here's a story from the Columbia Journalism Review that came to mind.

Freelancing abroad in a worldobsessed with Trump

”I can’t make a living reporting from the Middle East anymore,” said Sulome (Anderson) in mid-December. “I just can’t justify doing this to myself.” The day we spoke, she heard that Foreign Policy, one of the most reliable destinations for freelancers writing on-the-ground, deeply reported international pieces, would be closing its foreign bureaus. (CJR independently confirmed this, though it has not been publicly announced.) “They are one of the only publications that publish these kinds of stories,” she said, letting out a defeated sigh. (Disclosure: Sulome was a classmate of mine at Columbia Journalism School from 2010 to 2011.)

In 2015, Sulome published 16 major feature stories, while also writing her book. In 2016, she published 12, though she was busy doing publicity for her book. In 2017, the total dropped to nine stories, though she was reporting and pitching full time. She now plans to spend her time focusing on her next book, which is about radicalism in America.

Sulome blames a news cycle dominated by Donald Trump. Newspapers, magazines, and TV news programs simply have less space for freelance international stories than before—unless, of course, they directly involve Trump.



“We heard from one freelance reporter who was reporting on a conflict and was told that unless the story directly related to Trump, there would be no room for it,” (Nathalie) Applewhite tells me. “Our reporting is purposely not breaking news. So when you have such a busy breaking news cycle, it’s going to be difficult to place those stories that are more evergreen.”


https://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/trump-impact-foreign-reporting.php
January 11, 2019

I've read that many journalists want to write substantive stories, but editors want a "Trump angle"

Regardless of whether Trump is actually involved in any important sense.

Furthermore, they make sure that Trump is in the headline of an article as often as possible.

Hmm, I can’t see how this helps Trump control the media narrative.


January 10, 2019

Happy Thursday.

I hope...

How is everyone doing, politics aside?

January 9, 2019

Here's what'll happen in the next six hours or so: He'll tweet about his media coverage.

And there won't be a teleprompter to "filter" him.

Talk about manipulating the media!

And yes, he got his free fundraising pitch in too.

January 9, 2019

What was the point of that speech? Such a letdown!

Give me Fire and Fury and American Carnage over President TelpromptTrump any day of the week. At least then I would actually be properly alarmed by what he spews.

This was just another media stunt for someone who can't stand not having a platform to vent his bullshit. Typical Trump. The status quo holds.

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Generic liberal Democrat, I guess? * shrug*
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