'They Are a Clown Show'

[kpete]

Vanity Fair: “The COVID-19 briefings themselves have become a grim Trumpian sideshow to the catastrophic public health emergency that is sweeping the globe, and intensifying in the United States as new cases and deaths mount by the hour. Media organizations are grappling with how to cover them, given both their factually challenged content and the notion that they are, in some sense, not unlike Trump campaign events, a replacement while his rallies are on pause.”

Said one White House reporter: “They are a clown show, just a daily advertisement for Trump. He’s smart to do them, dominating earned media and blocking out the sun for Biden.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/media-orgs-wrestle-with-covering-trumps-campaign-rally-covid-19-briefings

[cayugafalls]

1. The Trump Virus task Farce! nt

[rzemanfl]

3. When my kids were little they wore teeny tiny socks. n/t

[unblock]

2. Media shifting blame again. He's not smart for doing these clown shows,

The media is stupid for covering them.

Especially frustratingly stupid if they recognize them as clown shows and still give him airtime.

[Laelth]

4. "He's smart to do them."

Free media time, every day! Sure! Why not? Who cares if people are dying and I am (at least partially) to blame?

Evil. Truly.



-Laelth

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. tRump clever on 2 things: media usage and other people's money. Everything else? Not gonna study. nt

[RockRaven]

5. It's to the point that the media's coverage of Trump's clown show is itself immoral.

The media is knowingly, and for personally and institutionally selfish reasons, aiding the spread of deadly misinformation during a medical crisis. No amount of fact-checking or correcting after the fact washes away that sin.

[alwaysinasnit]

6. +1000

[sop]

8. Trump hoodwinked corporate media into giving him $2B in earned media the last time around.

Then he announced his re-election campaign days after the inauguration, and the credulous media was bamboozled into slavishly covering all of his hours-long Nuremberg Rallies. After a couple of years of interrupting regular programming to air Trump's shit-show campaign events, the media wised up and stopped. Now Trump's at it again, and the media's taking the bait.

[GeorgeGist]

9. Said White House reporter seems content ...

to being used by the clowns.