NP - Trump's Chumps

[David Morris]

Maybe they ARE learning.  Slow Learners.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-personally-blasts-the-press

Another participant at the meeting said that Trump’s behavior was “totally
inappropriate” and “fucking outrageous.” The television people thought that
they were being summoned to ask questions; Trump has not held a press
conference since late July. Instead, they were subjected to a stream of
insults and complaints—and not everyone absorbed it with pleasure.

“I have to tell you, I am emotionally fucking pissed,” another participant
said. “How can this not influence coverage? I am being totally honest with
you. Toward the end of the campaign, it got to a point where I thought that
the coverage was all about [Trump’s] flaws and problems. And that’s legit.
But, I thought, O.K., let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. After the
meeting today, though—and I am being human with you here—I think, Fuck him!
I know I am being emotional about it. And I know I will get over it in a
couple of days after Thanksgiving. But I really am offended. This was
unprecedented. Outrageous!”


On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> "There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."--L Cohen,
> of course.
>
> It was all leaked by at least two sources and not via any Drudge or
> Breitbart stories. From the NYPOST(!)--probably a Repub insider leak---thru
> the major newspapers and some TV. One way the truths of 'off the record'
> meetings gets out.
>
> Re the campaign, remember that it was an NBC employee of attendee Phil
> Griffin who got the ACCESS HOLLYWOOD tape to Fahrenthold at WA PO.
>
> There were some others at other media who did Pulitzer-competitive and
> award worthy work, including NBC's MSNBC imho.
>
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> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:58 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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> 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> wrote:
>> > When will they ever learn?
>> >
>> > http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/22/1602927/-Trump-ma
>> kes-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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