(np) Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down

[John Bailey]

Similar logic in the media when it comes to climate change denial - in
the interests of 'balance' coverage is provided to those whose
opinions are so far in the minority you need a microscope to find
them, while scientists shake their heads.

Except, except... there's no shortage of reporting that treats T***p
like sewer water. The worse he gets, the more coverage he gets, and he
has made no bones about the fact that this is his strategy. Starve the
opposition of oxygen. The public will side with the candidate most
embedded in their cranium. First tactic of showmen, evangelists,
dictators and PR agents.

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>> ... Among all these classes of professionals, all these institutions, that
>> whole superstructure of US politics built around two balanced sides, there
>> will be a tidal pull to normalize this election, to make it Coca-Cola versus
>> Pepsi instead of Coca-Cola versus sewer water.
>
> The US political system knows how to play the former script; it doesn't know
> how to play the latter. There's a whole skein of practices, relationships,
> and money flows developed around the former. The latter would occasion a
> reappraisal of, well, everything. Scary.
>
> So there will be a push to lift Donald Trump up and bring Hillary Clinton
> down, until they are at least something approximating two equivalent choices
> ... <
>
>
> http://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11589262/2016-general-election-is-going-to-suck
>
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