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He didn't find a loophole to get his message out. He's the President of the United States. He can call a press conference and everyone will report on his messag
by daveFNbuck 8y ago
He didn't find a loophole to get his message out. He's the President of the United States. He can call a press conference and everyone will report on his message across the country. There's no need for a loophole. The complaint is that he's communicating irresponsibly in a way that needlessly hurts others.
- Amezarak 8y agoSince at least the early 2000s, and certainly throughout the Bush and Obama administrations, the media has felt perfectly free to basically ignore any Presidential press conference they didn't think was interesting. You were doing good if the media passed on a few soundbites or put a story about it (in their words, with their framing) on the front page. Twitter, for better or worse, gives you direct access to normal people. I'm no fan of Musk, but I'm inclined to believe that if our financial (and in the example, political) system is so fragile that tweets can blow it all to hell, we have a serious problem and system collapse is inevitable.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoNo one is complaining about the tweets that aren't interesting. Obama tweeted too.
- andys627 8y agoI think he did. No one reads press releases... I am not a fan of Trump but I think it's cool (terrifying?) that we can get his stream of consciousness through Twitter.