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Miller's 'election media 90% anti-Trump' claim is untrue. A reminder.
Weary Press Corps Can Celebrate Election's End, Then Survey Wreckage
November 8, 20168:11 AM ET
David Folkenflik
Hillary Clinton is seen on screens in the media center Sept. 26, during her debate with Donald Trump at
Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
John Locher/AP
From pretty much the very start of this election season, Donald Trump grabbed the media by the press pass. He didn't even wait.
As Trump, a former reality show host, once said in a slightly different context, "When you're a star, they let you do it."
[...]
It's been decades since the press has been so owned by a major candidate
[...]
During the primary campaign, the cable networks featured Trump constantly, the other 16 candidates often seeming like afterthoughts. The networks were rewarded for their devotion to Trump with massive audiences — and an unexpected windfall from advertisers. Traffic online soared as well, tempting even established news organizations that often did break big stories about the candidates, such as The Washington Post (and NPR, per our ombudsman), to turn their sites into smorgasbords of Trump news.
https://www.npr.org/2016/11/08/501033242/weary-press-corps-can-celebrate-election-s-end-then-survey-wreckage
See also:
"Leslie Moonves, the chief executive of CBS and a man whose 2015 compensation totaled $56.8m, had this to say about the Trump campaign. “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS. The money’s rolling in and this is fun … this [is] going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But bring it on, Donald. Keep going.”"
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Weary Press Corps Can Celebrate Election's End, Then Survey Wreckage
November 8, 20168:11 AM ET
David Folkenflik
Hillary Clinton is seen on screens in the media center Sept. 26, during her debate with Donald Trump at
Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
John Locher/AP
From pretty much the very start of this election season, Donald Trump grabbed the media by the press pass. He didn't even wait.
As Trump, a former reality show host, once said in a slightly different context, "When you're a star, they let you do it."
[...]
It's been decades since the press has been so owned by a major candidate
[...]
During the primary campaign, the cable networks featured Trump constantly, the other 16 candidates often seeming like afterthoughts. The networks were rewarded for their devotion to Trump with massive audiences — and an unexpected windfall from advertisers. Traffic online soared as well, tempting even established news organizations that often did break big stories about the candidates, such as The Washington Post (and NPR, per our ombudsman), to turn their sites into smorgasbords of Trump news.
https://www.npr.org/2016/11/08/501033242/weary-press-corps-can-celebrate-election-s-end-then-survey-wreckage
See also:
"Leslie Moonves, the chief executive of CBS and a man whose 2015 compensation totaled $56.8m, had this to say about the Trump campaign. “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS. The money’s rolling in and this is fun … this [is] going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But bring it on, Donald. Keep going.”"
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125730480
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130846307
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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