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Should Trump plant fake news to embarrass media?

Posted on 02/02/2017 7:24:24 PM PST by LeonardFMason

Thanks for indulging me.

What is the chance Trump will begin "seeding" the fake news media in an effort to destroy their reputation and force them back to more legitimate and fair coverage?

And

Is it worth the WH holding a weekly presser to detail every fake news report aired by the media? This would serve a couple purposes. It would would continue to erode the credibility of the media AND it would sow doubt to the point they wouldn't know what story to run with.


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KEYWORDS: fakenews; realnews; realpropaganda; vanity
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1 posted on 02/02/2017 7:24:24 PM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: LeonardFMason

Exposing the truth is far more effective and extremely embarrassing for the fakenews media. You become your enemy, then who can save you?


2 posted on 02/02/2017 7:26:20 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: LeonardFMason

Hasn’t he been doing so since he entered the primaries?
A more valid question would be “should he stop?”
The answer to that would be “no.”


3 posted on 02/02/2017 7:26:55 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: LeonardFMason

The media does a great job embarrassing themselves...LOL


4 posted on 02/02/2017 7:28:24 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: LeonardFMason

They seed their own newspapers with so much fake news there is no need for Trump to do anything except maybe sniff and say #stillfake


5 posted on 02/02/2017 7:29:12 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: LeonardFMason

Marked “leaks” to ferret out Bozo traitors would be prudent.


6 posted on 02/02/2017 7:30:12 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: LeonardFMason

*Nattering nabobs of negativism.”

As true today as it was fifty years ago.


7 posted on 02/02/2017 7:32:01 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: LeonardFMason

He does not need to “plant fake news”. And, it would be dangerous.

He simply needs to continue to expose the fake news that exists.

Sometimes I think he sets traps for the Establishment media, and they fall for it.

That is simply good strategy on his part.


8 posted on 02/02/2017 7:32:24 PM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: LeonardFMason

Drag them into court again and again etc


9 posted on 02/02/2017 7:34:29 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: LeonardFMason

The media needs no help finding fake news. However, they do not appear to be embarrassed.


10 posted on 02/02/2017 7:35:27 PM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: butlerweave

Trump has no need to do that. He is an adult and a professional, the press are blithering idiots and compulsive liars...that is a KNOWN (with hat tip to Ruumsfeld :-)


11 posted on 02/02/2017 7:36:33 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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To: LeonardFMason

That’s what I’ve been wondering. There seems to be even more fake news and unsubstantiated reports then ever.


12 posted on 02/02/2017 7:38:55 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: LeonardFMason

First of all it’s a bad idea, and second there’s no need. They keep driving into concrete walls without any help from DJT.


13 posted on 02/02/2017 7:42:09 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: LeonardFMason

The media should be exposed and mocked for their lies. Getting in the mud with them tarnishes you the same as them, but only yours will get reported..


14 posted on 02/02/2017 7:42:20 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: LeonardFMason

maybe just to find out who on his team is leaking....


15 posted on 02/02/2017 7:49:28 PM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: LeonardFMason

#real-dtrump As soon as that Ginsberg broad face plants, I’m putting up Roy Moore


16 posted on 02/02/2017 7:49:49 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: LeonardFMason

He doesn’t have to - the media is doing such a bang-up job of destroying themselves.


17 posted on 02/02/2017 7:53:30 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: LeonardFMason

“Today president Trump nominated long time GOP-climate expert Woody Chuck to head up the Whitehouse team on climate change”


18 posted on 02/02/2017 7:56:09 PM PST by blackdog
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To: LeonardFMason

I don’t think the people who listen to and believe fake news even care that it’s fake. It fits their agenda so what does it matter?


19 posted on 02/02/2017 7:58:49 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: LeonardFMason

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Because after all this is an information war!

He could also flush out where the leaks are coming from.

The feds are such a mess he almost needs an internal investigation department.


20 posted on 02/02/2017 8:25:58 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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