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This is exactly the strategy the WH is starting to employ. Look at Russian tactics against the press in 2006-2007 and you can predict the WH next move. They ar

This is exactly the strategy the WH is starting to employ. Look at Russian tactics against the press in 2006-2007 and you can predict the WH next move. They are stealing from their playbook. Revoke. Replace. Erode.

maxerickson 10y ago
Maybe Infowars will get the president on the record about Pizzagate.
- deleted 10y ago
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- drivingmenuts 10y ago
  Alex Jones loves Donald Trump. He's unlikely to hold him to account for anything, except maybe not being paranoid enough, until his audience drops and new ideas come crawling out of whatever hole Alex keeps them in. I would say he's a joke, but it's way creepier than that.
jacobush 10y ago
I hear there are two new administration approved newspapers: The Truth and The News. (Известия)
- kahnpro 10y ago
  And it's very well known that there is no news in the Truth, and no truth in the News.
heygrady 10y ago
There is a good write up on how Putin manages his media relations and uses it as a "powerful weapon" [1]. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/how-the-media-became-putins-most-powerful-weapon/391062/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/ho...
hwang89 10y ago
What is the next move?
- Dangeranger 10y ago
  Here are some examples: https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-media-from-russia-6e2e76eeae77 https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-medi... https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/you-thought-this-was-rock-bottom-america-but-the-russians-are-knocking-from-below-56789 https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/you-thought-this-was-roc...
  - smsm42 10y ago
    I don't see anything about next moves in either. The only thing I could get from the first one is that Trump will produce a lot of bullshit. That's not exactly next move, he's doing it for years now. The second one mostly devoted to mocking Trump's first press-conference, still no next moves.
    - mturmon 10y ago
      The linked piece says much more than that, of course.
      - smsm42 10y ago
        More words, same content.
- mturmon 10y ago
  Masha Gessen's outstanding piece from November is holding up pretty well: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/ http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autoc... "The national press is likely to be among the first institutional victims of Trumpism. There is no law that requires the presidential administration to hold daily briefings, none that guarantees media access to the White House. Many journalists may soon face a dilemma long familiar to those of us who have worked under autocracies: fall in line or forfeit access."
toyg 10y ago
"Stealing"? Vladimir let Donald borrow the book and make photocopies, and he's happy to explain all the parts that are not clear.
- BrailleHunting 10y ago
  Vlad also showed off his bling to The Donald that he stole from Robert Kraft.
smsm42 10y ago
Right. Because last I heard Trump just nationalized CNN and had state-controlled oil monopoly buy NYT and replace all previous editorship with his cronies.

maxerickson 10y ago

Maybe Infowars will get the president on the record about Pizzagate.

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drivingmenuts 10y ago
Alex Jones loves Donald Trump. He's unlikely to hold him to account for anything, except maybe not being paranoid enough, until his audience drops and new ideas come crawling out of whatever hole Alex keeps them in. I would say he's a joke, but it's way creepier than that.

jacobush 10y ago

I hear there are two new administration approved newspapers: The Truth and The News. (Известия)

kahnpro 10y ago
And it's very well known that there is no news in the Truth, and no truth in the News.

heygrady 10y ago

There is a good write up on how Putin manages his media relations and uses it as a "powerful weapon" [1]. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/how-the-media-became-putins-most-powerful-weapon/391062/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/ho...

hwang89 10y ago

What is the next move?

Dangeranger 10y ago
Here are some examples: https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-media-from-russia-6e2e76eeae77 https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-medi... https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/you-thought-this-was-rock-bottom-america-but-the-russians-are-knocking-from-below-56789 https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/you-thought-this-was-roc...
- smsm42 10y ago
  I don't see anything about next moves in either. The only thing I could get from the first one is that Trump will produce a lot of bullshit. That's not exactly next move, he's doing it for years now. The second one mostly devoted to mocking Trump's first press-conference, still no next moves.
  - mturmon 10y ago
    The linked piece says much more than that, of course.
    - smsm42 10y ago
      More words, same content.
mturmon 10y ago
Masha Gessen's outstanding piece from November is holding up pretty well: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/ http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autoc... "The national press is likely to be among the first institutional victims of Trumpism. There is no law that requires the presidential administration to hold daily briefings, none that guarantees media access to the White House. Many journalists may soon face a dilemma long familiar to those of us who have worked under autocracies: fall in line or forfeit access."

toyg 10y ago

"Stealing"? Vladimir let Donald borrow the book and make photocopies, and he's happy to explain all the parts that are not clear.

BrailleHunting 10y ago
Vlad also showed off his bling to The Donald that he stole from Robert Kraft.

smsm42 10y ago

Right. Because last I heard Trump just nationalized CNN and had state-controlled oil monopoly buy NYT and replace all previous editorship with his cronies.