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Trump got about $5 billion in free advertising [0] That seems like far more impact than $50k from some memes. It’s clear the media is picking Kamala Harris as

Trump got about $5 billion in free advertising [0] That seems like far more impact than $50k from some memes. It’s clear the media is picking Kamala Harris as their choice [1] And already positioning her as the best candidate to beat Trump [2] This is all after how from the 2018 midterm they positioned her as one of the top Democratic contenders [0] - https://www.thestreet.com/story/13896916/1/donald-trump-rode-5-billion-in-free-media-to-the-white-house.html https://www.thestreet.com/story/13896916/1/donald-trump-rode... [1]https://thehill.com/homenews/media/426349-cnn-to-host-kamala-harris-town-hall-event-in-iowa https://thehill.com/homenews/media/426349-cnn-to-host-kamala... [2] https://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/andrea-mitchell-asks-kamala-harris-why-she-s-best-suited-to-beat-trump-1429587011663 https://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/andrea-mitchell-asks-ka...

blancheneige 8y ago
>free advertising you mean 24/7 attempts at character assasination?
- akhilcacharya 8y ago
  Is it really character assassination to report what you say verbatim? If it is, that says more about ones...character than anything else.
  - blancheneige 8y ago
    Right, if only that's all they were doing. Just innocent verbatim reporting and clear contextual analysis instead of ludicrous and deliberate mischaracterizations of every single one of his talking points. How many times have I read about Trump's "dislike of immigrants", conviniently leaving out the illegal part? The list goes on and on. If you read foreign news, it gets even worse and more blatant since most of their readers don't have the luxury of understanding the source.
    - akhilcacharya 8y ago
      His policies and the people he surrounds himself with have made his disdain for legal immigrants clear. Stephen Miller wants to reduce all immigration, not just the illegal kind.
      - hnuser1234 8y ago
        > His policies and the people he surrounds himself with have made his disdain for legal immigrants clear. Like the immigrants he married and fathered children with? >Stephen Miller wants to reduce all immigration, not just the illegal kind. Why is this problematic?
      - blancheneige 8y ago
        See this strikes me as very representative of the whole misunderstanding surrounding his policies (whether intentional or not). You seem to conflate his intention of reducing the influx of immigrants with some kind of intrinsic xenophopbia that's often cited by the media to trigger an emotional response. I'm a legal immigrant myself, and yet I share his stringent viewpoint -- given all the effort, multiple tests and exams, interviews, references etc. I had to go through to earn my visa, I more than support a merit based system instead of conveniently ascribing (hell, projecting?) "disdain" to his administration. Mind you I support the same policies for my home country as well, which suffers from the same issues.
        akhilcacharya 8y ago
        >You seem to conflate his intention of reducing the influx of immigrants with some kind of intrinsic xenophopbia that's often cited by the media to trigger an emotional response. Trump speaks for himself. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-... https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/12/07/trump_total_and_complete_shutdown_of_muslims_entering_united_states.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/12/07/trump_tot...
  - towaway1138 8y ago
    No. But these days they often provide an editorialized summary. Or sometimes a libelous summary. Whatever you think of Trump, you have to think less of the media for this.
- philwelch 8y ago
  Trump's whole appeal is that he's an antiestablishment figure who says things nobody else is willing to say, that there is a shadowy establishment conspiracy to tear him down, and that it's also amusing when he "triggers the libs". When the media alternates between behaving like a shadowy establishment conspiracy to tear him down and behaving like "triggered libs", it helps him. The media might not realize this, but that's because this is one of the ways in which Trump has outsmarted the media and political establishment.
ideonexus 8y ago
The free advertising infuriated me bitterly. I remember when Hillary Clinton had scheduled a major policy speech. So I took my lunch in a cafe to watch it on CNN. When I got there, the speech wasn't broadcasting and instead I got to see 30 minutes of an empty podium because Trump had announced a last-minute speech himself with reporters breathlessly speculating on what he might say whenever he took the stage. It's not liberal or conservative bias for CNN, it's sensationalism bias.
- jessaustin 8y ago
  It was just self-interest. Trump got better TV ratings than Clinton or indeed any other candidate got. (HRC could hardly complain because she got better ratings than decent humans like Sanders, Stein, and Johnson.) Until DJT retires from politics or someone with a comparable built-in potential news audience challenges him, that will continue to be the case. If you want to know who will be a serious contender in 2024, pay attention to who has a reality show in 2021 (if not reality show, whatever moves the needle for the masses in that barely-imaginable future [hint: watch to see what Chris Christie does the only thing that can stop that guy is a heart attack]). Forget about 2020. DJT already had it comfortably, and now Mueller and the House Ds are doing their damnedest to trigger a landslide... The point is, the news orgs pretend to oppose Trump, but when no one is listening they say things like Les Moonves said before he got blackballed for doing what Hollywood bigwigs do: ""It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." [0] They don't actually care why advertisers pay them money, so long as the money gets paid. [0] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leslie-moonves-donald...

blancheneige 8y ago

>free advertising you mean 24/7 attempts at character assasination?

akhilcacharya 8y ago
Is it really character assassination to report what you say verbatim? If it is, that says more about ones...character than anything else.
- blancheneige 8y ago
  Right, if only that's all they were doing. Just innocent verbatim reporting and clear contextual analysis instead of ludicrous and deliberate mischaracterizations of every single one of his talking points. How many times have I read about Trump's "dislike of immigrants", conviniently leaving out the illegal part? The list goes on and on. If you read foreign news, it gets even worse and more blatant since most of their readers don't have the luxury of understanding the source.
  - akhilcacharya 8y ago
    His policies and the people he surrounds himself with have made his disdain for legal immigrants clear. Stephen Miller wants to reduce all immigration, not just the illegal kind.
    - hnuser1234 8y ago
      > His policies and the people he surrounds himself with have made his disdain for legal immigrants clear. Like the immigrants he married and fathered children with? >Stephen Miller wants to reduce all immigration, not just the illegal kind. Why is this problematic?
    - blancheneige 8y ago
      See this strikes me as very representative of the whole misunderstanding surrounding his policies (whether intentional or not). You seem to conflate his intention of reducing the influx of immigrants with some kind of intrinsic xenophopbia that's often cited by the media to trigger an emotional response. I'm a legal immigrant myself, and yet I share his stringent viewpoint -- given all the effort, multiple tests and exams, interviews, references etc. I had to go through to earn my visa, I more than support a merit based system instead of conveniently ascribing (hell, projecting?) "disdain" to his administration. Mind you I support the same policies for my home country as well, which suffers from the same issues.
      - akhilcacharya 8y ago
        >You seem to conflate his intention of reducing the influx of immigrants with some kind of intrinsic xenophopbia that's often cited by the media to trigger an emotional response. Trump speaks for himself. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-... https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/12/07/trump_total_and_complete_shutdown_of_muslims_entering_united_states.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/12/07/trump_tot...
- towaway1138 8y ago
  No. But these days they often provide an editorialized summary. Or sometimes a libelous summary. Whatever you think of Trump, you have to think less of the media for this.
philwelch 8y ago
Trump's whole appeal is that he's an antiestablishment figure who says things nobody else is willing to say, that there is a shadowy establishment conspiracy to tear him down, and that it's also amusing when he "triggers the libs". When the media alternates between behaving like a shadowy establishment conspiracy to tear him down and behaving like "triggered libs", it helps him. The media might not realize this, but that's because this is one of the ways in which Trump has outsmarted the media and political establishment.

ideonexus 8y ago

The free advertising infuriated me bitterly. I remember when Hillary Clinton had scheduled a major policy speech. So I took my lunch in a cafe to watch it on CNN. When I got there, the speech wasn't broadcasting and instead I got to see 30 minutes of an empty podium because Trump had announced a last-minute speech himself with reporters breathlessly speculating on what he might say whenever he took the stage. It's not liberal or conservative bias for CNN, it's sensationalism bias.

jessaustin 8y ago
It was just self-interest. Trump got better TV ratings than Clinton or indeed any other candidate got. (HRC could hardly complain because she got better ratings than decent humans like Sanders, Stein, and Johnson.) Until DJT retires from politics or someone with a comparable built-in potential news audience challenges him, that will continue to be the case. If you want to know who will be a serious contender in 2024, pay attention to who has a reality show in 2021 (if not reality show, whatever moves the needle for the masses in that barely-imaginable future [hint: watch to see what Chris Christie does the only thing that can stop that guy is a heart attack]). Forget about 2020. DJT already had it comfortably, and now Mueller and the House Ds are doing their damnedest to trigger a landslide... The point is, the news orgs pretend to oppose Trump, but when no one is listening they say things like Les Moonves said before he got blackballed for doing what Hollywood bigwigs do: ""It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." [0] They don't actually care why advertisers pay them money, so long as the money gets paid. [0] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leslie-moonves-donald...