He did a GREAT job at the debate.
But the MSM isn’t the only media anymore. Social media is almost as powerful now, and of any candidate, only Trump knows how to effectively message in social media.
For example, when the Carson stories started a few days ago, they started with a company called Buzzfeed. Most people here don’t know who or what Buzzfeed is, but it is a gigantic, major player in social media. Very liberal, very clever, and very, very good at framing their narratives.
When Buzzfeed started putting up articles, I knew Carson was in trouble. Why? Because the people who read Buzzfeed for news, think it is all actually true. Then they post those articles on their FB page, they link the articles on Twitter, they post images from the articles on their Tumblr and Instagram pages, and before you know it, those that swim in the ocean of social media have seen the story dozens of times from dozens of different places in just a few hours. So it has to be true, right?
A press release or an interview in one place is not enough to counter that narrative. Nor is having a single websource print a retraction going to start to undo the damage.