President-elect Donald Trump met Monday with television news executives and some well-known TV journalists and repeatedly told them that the campaign reporting about him was “unfair” and “dishonest.”
Participants in the meeting at Trump Tower in New York described it as a contentious but generally respectful gathering.
But if the media elite attended in hopes of improving relations with the forthcoming Trump administration, that wasn’t quite in the cards. The president-elect specifically called out reporting by CNN and NBC that he deemed unfair, according to four people who attended the meeting, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was off the record. (The ground rules prevented the networks from reporting the very story they were part of.)
Meanwhile, Trump has pretty much made no contact with the Washington Post (who might as well have been on the Clinton payroll) and cancelled a last minute meeting with the NY Times (who he has deemed to be unfair).
The media went all out in their attempts to make Hillary Clinton the 45th President, and that included being less than fair and impartial with Donald Trump. Trump is now the President, and the media will have to figure out a way to deal with that. In the meantime, I don't expect (nor should anyone expect) that Trump is going to bend over backwards to be nice or fair to those who were not nice or fair to him.
Keep in mind, this is not unprecedented. Barack Obama criticized FOX News over and over, and refused to be interviewed by FOX News during most of his Presidency. What's good for the goose (Obama) should be good for the gander (Trump). In fact, to be fair, perhaps he should "only" do interviews with FOX News to make up for the past Administration.
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"The Trump Effect"
Yep, get used to it , he has more followers on Social Media then those news org do. He is out working other half his age, the media can't keep up.
They showed their yellow bellies during the election, in-bed with Hillary, so now, ignore them.
I can not get Enough of this kind of Lame Stream Meltdown on Election Night
They speak of great loss, they mean Hillary and the Part they played unable to hide her leftist failed policies and the promise of more economic damage with a third Obimbo Term.
They have done damage that I think can not be repaired.
In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, Kellyanne Conway, the former Trump campaign manager and a senior adviser to his transition, said the president-elect wanted to “move beyond the issues of the campaign” and confirmed that Mr. Trump did not want his promised Clinton investigations to take place.
Odd. I thought nearly all respected people in the media were embarrassedly aware how Trump was given a free ride by the vast majority of the media, not holding him accountable for statements that were patently, egregiously untrue while giving him cost-free publicity worth millions upon millions of dollars.
and confirmed that Mr. Trump did not want his promised Clinton investigations to take place.
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attorney general session might have other ideas, however.
In what alternate universe did Trump get a free ride by not being held accountable for statements? That had to come out of Plato's Cave or something.
Trump got free publicity by journalists trying to one-up each other in lambasting him. They foolishly believed that they were ensuring the election of Clinton.
Accountable by who? The very same people who lied and distorted the truth because "It was our mission to ensure Donald Trump is defeated"?
Right now the media has almost no credibility with the people.
They forgot the lesson of Machiavelli;
"If you strike at the prince, you must kill him."
I thought nearly all respected people in the media
Let's see... "nearly all" out of a poll of next to zero equals?
Anonymous wphamilton said...
In what alternate universe did Trump get a free ride by not being held accountable for statements? "
WP welcome to the Alt-Left Diaper Pin Wearing universe.
The left will never get over the drumming Trump and his very long elegant Formal Men's Wear coat tails hand them.
This is above the moaning to this day of the Gore Defeat.
CNN is still reporting the staged "hiking photo" as if Clinton really was hiking in the woods. Along with "spending time with the family". I wonder if they really expect anyone to believe that nonsense, or if their target audience has shrunk to those poor souls who believed everything from the campaign?
FWIW, the video of the Clinton celebration, with Bill jumping up and down, was also clearly staged. I'm sure that the intention was to release it after the victory, or more likely one of the other half dozen takes they probably made.
wphamilton said...
CNN is still reporting the staged "hiking photo" as if Clinton really was hiking in the woods.
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and the woman granny just happened to bump into was a clinton campaign supporter/worker...
who has supposedly received death threats since that photo was posted.
what was it that 0linsky was saying about "fake news?"
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