Posted on 11/30/2016 7:46:59 AM PST by shove_it
Since Election Day, President-elect Donald J. Trump has proposed a U-turn in American diplomatic relations with Cuba, boasted about negotiations with a major manufacturer, trumpeted false claims about millions of illegal votes and hinted that he might upend current free speech laws by banning flag burning.
All in 140 characters or less.
As news organizations grapple with covering a commander in chief unlike any other, Mr. Trump’s Twitter account — a bully pulpit, propaganda weapon and attention magnet all rolled into one — has quickly emerged as a fresh journalistic challenge and a source of lively debate.
How to cover a president’s pronouncements when they are both provocative and maddeningly vague? Does an early-morning tweet amount to a planned shift in American policy? Should news outlets, as some readers argue, ignore clearly untrue tweets, rather than amplify falsehoods further?
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HAHAHA!
Print in, stooges.
You have to wear these next four, possibly eight years!!
LOL, I can hear it now:
MSM: And now for the PRESIDENTIAL TWEETS of the day...
“Is it news?” I don’t care. I read the tweets myself. I don’t read the NY Times. What a pointless question!
is it really that much different than FDR’s fireside chats over the radio?
President Trump is able to BREAK THROUGH the MSM blockade and they hate it.
NY Slimes is desperatly trying to remain relevant.
The character limit.
It’s news....and unedited, direct from Trump’s mouth news. The evil MSM has no way to alter the words to fit their narrative.
Trump’s tweets are important, relevant news, unlike any reporting from the New York Times.
Buh-bye NYT! Don’t let the door slam you on your way to obscurity!
I hope he keeps them on the run.
He’s playing them like a carney in a kindergarten!................
If the LSM retweets it, is it Fake News?
The MSM leftist lackeys are pissed that President Trump continues to do an end run around their BS leftist/communist/democrat propaganda firewall.
Not bad for a guy who hasn’t even taken a seat in the Oval office yet!
He will...it’s fun!
They just can’t admit they’ve been on their knees before him for over a year, and they haven’t changed position ... and THEY LOVE IT !
Nobody needs the MSM to decide & tell us what is news. We can decide on our own.
Trump is by passing the left wing mediots each day he uses the internet to get his reality out without their bs bias.
The MSM opened their mouths voluntarily .. Trump didn’t do a thing but discharge
Kinda like Touche!
There is no such thing as “news” at this point. There is only “persuasion”.
All of the MSM pundits and anchors want to persuade people that Trump is a monster and the voters were wrong and Progressives should still be calling all the shots. Sending out this propaganda message and persuading people to believe this is what the “news business” does for a living.
Trump will continue to Win in a big way through simple things like Tweets until these fools give up on persuasion and just go back to: “Here’s what happened today”.
But it may take a long time for them to realize this easy solution.
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