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Afromania

(2,771 posts)
Sun Dec 4, 2016, 08:30 PM Dec 2016

Trump tweeting and the "news" media

I don't know if this has been said here already so I'm sorry if it's a rehash. Anyway what's with the "news" constantly reporting on his tweets as if they were gospel. How do we know it's not Mike Pence, Putin, or frigging Steve Bannon back there playing keyboard commando???? By reporting on every tweet as if it was 100% legit. The media is encouraging him to dictate policy from a bunker someplace. It's a dangerous thing for him to do it and even more so for it to be validated and assigned any sort of legitimacy by the media.

What happens if/when some foreign entity takes over the account and says something completely inflammatory? Are we going to hear "I was hacked" over and over again during this nitwits term(singular) as president? That's not going to do anybody any good when relations with some other nation is Jeopardized.Does anybody around him understand how fundamentally unsound and dangerous trying to craft national policy from a bunker in secret could be? I don't really expect anything resembling journalistic integrity from the "news" media at this point, but cmon' don't normalize this garbage. bah.........

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Trump tweeting and the "news" media (Original Post) Afromania Dec 2016 OP
REALLY! elleng Dec 2016 #1
Furthermore, while the media obsesses over the tweets, they are ignoring his other actions liberal N proud Dec 2016 #2

liberal N proud

(60,348 posts)
2. Furthermore, while the media obsesses over the tweets, they are ignoring his other actions
Sun Dec 4, 2016, 08:36 PM
Dec 2016

Isn't it funny that after creating an international incident, we have another worthless tweets torment obsession?

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