one of the DFW primitive's colleagues explains what Trump's doing to the media

[franksolich]

https://www.thenation.com/article/weapons-of-mass-distraction/

Oh my.

This WWII Military Strategy Perfectly Explains What Trump Is Doing to the Media
He’s making it difficult to pick out the signal from the noise.

The British called it “Window”; the Luftwaffe dubbed its version “Düppel.” For the Americans, “Chaff” was the code name for the top-secret weapon that, in July 1943, allowed the US Army Air Forces to obliterate Hamburg in broad daylight. For the past two weeks, the Trump administration has been using a Chaff approach to media management—and if we don’t learn how to deal with it, we may suffer the same fate as Hamburg......

[SVPete]

Ummm, no. Trump does troll the MSM, and they, consistently, bite. But also part of the current picture are the Ds, who have created publicity for the Trump Administration by badgering and obstructing every Trump nominee and howling every time Trump sneezes, There's whacked out activists, like those who call for boycott on outfits like New Balance and Under Armor or the Trump-hating Nordstrom's exec who dumped Ivanka's line. And then there's the MSM themselves, who were trolled into dropping their last shred of pretense of non-partisanship who gin up silly false @#$%, like the NewSpeak "reporter" who falsely claimed Trump or his peeps had removed a bust of MLK from the Oval Office.

Trump can control his trolling, but most of the crazy @#$% in the MSM is generated by Lib/Prog/D pols and activists, and MSM unwillingness to control their hysterical loathing of Donald Trump. Were the MSM suddenly and magically start doing their jobs, reporting actual, fact-checked, news, without regard for narratives or who was "hurt" or "helped" by reporting facts, Trump's trolling would quickly taper off, and half the @#$% in MSM content would disappear. But the chances of the MSM doing that are slightly higher than TMN's crazy hysterical predictions-of-doom.

[franksolich]

What Trump's doing now is something I've thought Republican presidents should be doing ever since way back, when I was a kid and Richard Nixon was president--spreading chaos and confusion among the news media, getting them all riled up, all in a frenzy.

A very few years earlier, I'd watched as they destroyed Lyndon Johnson.  Even though I was a staunch Republican (even at the age of 10 years), it pissed me off to no end.  It's not the news media's job to lie about people.

[FlaGator]

It amuses me to realize that the attacks on Trump by the media, Congressional democrats and liberal protesters are causing him to be viewed as a sympathetic figure. The treatment by Senate democrats of Trumps cabinet appointees is doing more to help Trump in the eyes of the public than it could ever hurt him.

[SVPete]

What Trump's doing now is something I've thought Republican presidents should be doing ever since way back, when I was a kid and Richard Nixon was president--spreading chaos and confusion among the news media, getting them all riled up, all in a frenzy.
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I was thinking similarly. Nixon was the last R President to seriously call out and attack MSM bias. Reagan scarcely did that, choosing to bypass the MSM and speak to the people directly. Trump is doing both, and has the tools of Twitter and FB that Reagan didn't have. That's the real reason why DU-folk and other Progs want Trump's Twitter and FB accounts shut down - cut off his direct communication to millions of people.