Media (Traditional and Social Media) News

  • Thread starter Thread starter nycfan
  • Start date Start date
  • Replies: 780
  • Views: 24K
  • Politics 
I’m not so sure it’s fair to place all blame on the media here.

There are tons of polls and studies showing that people who get their news from legacy media sources are better informed than those who rely on podcasts, “influencers,” or other non-traditional sources.

It’s difficult to inform those who don’t want to be informed.
I'm not sure podcasts and influencers should be looked at as equals.

There are some really good podcast that are much more informative than traditional news.

Influencers... I've not seen one that I would want to see again.
 


The Russian interference is FINALLY being called out

I wonder if they did anything similar here
Even for skeptics, there is a growing amount of smoke around the claim that Russia is interfering on a massive scale in democracies around the world to destabilize and undermine them and put their preferred candidates into power in as many countries as possible. And their strategy seems to be working in many places - not so much in stealing elections, but in using social media troll farms and hackers to undermine candidates they don't like and build up others that they do, and influence media organizations, podcasts, influencers, and politicians in various countries to do Putin's bidding in those countries. Putin's social media troll farms have done more to destabilize Western democracies than the old KGB ever did, imo. And China has been doing the same around the world as well.
 

“ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

As part of the settlement made public Saturday, ABC News posted an editor’s note to its website expressing regret over Stephanopoulos’ statements during a March 10 segment on his “This Week” program. The network will also pay $1 million in legal fees to the law firm of Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito.

The settlement agreement describes ABC’s presidential library payment as a “charitable contribution,” with the money earmarked for a non-profit organization that is being established in connection with the yet-to-be built library.

“We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing,” ABC News spokesperson Jeannie Kedas said.

…Trump sued ABC and Stephanopoulos in federal court in Miami days after the network aired the segment, in which the longtime “Good Morning America” anchor and “This Week” host repeatedly misstated the verdicts in Carroll’s two civil lawsuits against Trump.

During a live “This Week” interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., Stephanopoulos wrongly claimed that Trump had been “found liable for rape” and “defaming the victim of that rape.”

Neither verdict involved a finding of rape as defined under New York law.

In the first of the lawsuits to go to trial, Trump was found liable last year of sexually assaulting and defaming Carroll. A jury ordered him to pay her $5 million. …”
 

In other words, as long as all of the news media does what we want and behaves like Fox we'll leave them alone, but if they criticize us or even just point out our mistakes and controversial actions too much we'll use the full power of the government against them. And I'm sure they've all gotten that message clearly - Jeff Bezos certainly has seemed to.
 
Last edited:
The so-called "librul mainstream media" - or as Rammy has been trained by his Steve Bannon podcast to say, the "legacy media" :LOL: - has done more to help the widespread normalization and acceptance of Trump and Trumpism than any of the Trumpers or the bosiders here will ever admit.

It's shameful and sad and is an indicator that our democracy is in real trouble. :(
 
Fresh off his victory over ABC/Disney …




This is actually how Trump has operated for decades, and he learned this tactic at the knee of one of his earliest lawyers and mentors, Roy Cohn. Who also happened to be Joseph McCarthy's top aide and enthusiastic participant in the McCarthyite witch hunts of the early to mid 1950s - a smaller-scale preview of what we see now. Cohn was known as "McCarthy's attack dog" and his advice to Trump was to always be on the offensive, never apologize, intimidate and bully and bluster, and threaten to sue at the drop of a hat.

The difference now is that as a second-term president with no guardrails he can use the full power of the government to bully, threaten, and intimidate any of his media critics into backing down. What's interesting is that this Iowa pollster has already been publicly humiliated with her wildly wrong prediction, and she's already announced that she's leaving the polling profession. But that's not good enough for Trump, who is nothing if not vindictive and petty. She'll be forced to bend the knee and offer profuse apologies, or suffer the consequences, even though she's not going to be a pollster anymore.
 

Trump ramps up legal threats against news outlets​


"...News organizations are on high alert after President-elect Trump filed yet another defamation lawsuit on Monday — and vowed to continue suing new outlets and influencers over their coverage.

Why it matters: While there are political levers that Trump can pull to target media companies, harassment campaigns and lawsuits that drain companies of time, money, resources and trust are often easier and just as punitive.

... On Monday, Trump filed suit against the Des Moines Register over a poll it ran showing him possibly losing the presidential race.

...Trump has been suing media companies for years, but leading up to his second term, he's taken a more aggressive stance.

  • Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS over allegedly doctoring its "60 Minutes" interview with Vice President Harris. CBS has filed motions to dismiss the complaints.
  • The parent company to Trump's Truth Social network, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), filed a $3.8 billion defamation lawsuit against The Post, claiming an article falsely accused the company of securities fraud.
Yes, but: While Trump has a long history of filing lawsuits against media companies, he doesn't have a winning track record. ..."
 
Back
Top