NP - Trump's Chumps

[David Morris]

They, those media giants, were all played with this "off the record" scam.
Drudge & Breitbart were first with stories of Trump scolding them.  If they
grew a pair, that might be a start. Only the Washington Post proved worthy
before the election.  Ratings, alas, they value more than integrity and
truth.  And in these days of fake news, even independent journalism (blogs)
have been devalued.

David Morris

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:59 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sundayjb at gmail.com');>> wrote:

> Off the record isn't a legal term, and while it would be ethically
> poor of the journalists involved to directly report the contents of
> the meeting, there are ways around it. Hell, my first newspaper editor
> said that the first sentence uttered after "this is off the record"
> is, well, off the record, and from then on it's entirely negotiable.
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:06 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
> > When will they ever learn?
> >
> > http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/22/1602927/-Trump-
> makes-New-York-Times-wait-for-their-beating
> >
> > The network execs Trump harangued on Monday agreed to meet
> off-the-record, a
> > condition that allowed Trump and his team to characterize the meeting
> > however they liked while journalists were forced to bite their lips and
> > mumble in response. It was a power-play that drew raves from white
> > supremacist web sites, where the scream session was seen as an extension
> of
> > Trump’s penning up the press for the amusement of those at his rallies.
> >
> > ... after details of Mr. Trump’s hectoring leaked on Monday in The New
> York
> > Post, it seemed the meeting was being used as a political prop,
> especially
> > after Trump-friendly news outlets trumpeted the session as a
> > take-no-prisoners move by a brave president-elect.
> >
> > “Trump Slams Media Elite, Face to Face,” blared the Drudge Report. “Trump
> > Eats Press,” wrote Breitbart News.
>
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