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If Trump Tweets It, Is It News? A Quandary for the News Media
The New York Times ^ | November 29, 2016 | Michael M. GRYNBAUM & Sydney EMBER

Posted on 12/18/2016 10:36:14 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

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To: butlerweave

Tweet-
It’s the beautiful sound of a young bird, and a Tweet is the Twitter’s message.

Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and read short 140-character messages known as Tweets.


41 posted on 12/18/2016 11:27:07 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

If it’s informative and new, it’s NEWS! Simple.


42 posted on 12/18/2016 11:29:55 AM PST by mancini
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

NYTimes you burned your news card! The Enquirer provides more news that the commie grey lady!


43 posted on 12/18/2016 11:30:19 AM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
not a quandary.
they will not ignore it.
to do so, they give up any attempt to control any dialog.
44 posted on 12/18/2016 11:33:43 AM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas to include mom in law - nah, nah, nah, nah - hey hey goodbye)
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To: M. Thatcher

Thanks.
The quandary the msm faces is how to escape the quagmire of being forced to report truthfully.


45 posted on 12/18/2016 11:39:03 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Add up all the subscribers to NYT, WaPo, and the views of CNN and it’s not 17.3 million. Now you know why they don’t like him tweeting.

And it’s what he tweets is more credible and newsworthy than all of their articles or shows.


46 posted on 12/18/2016 11:40:57 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: tennmountainman
Of course it’s news.

Yep. Straight from the primary source. So tell me again why I would need the NYT to tell me what DJT said when I already have it myself?

47 posted on 12/18/2016 11:43:13 AM PST by Gulf War One
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To: Jeff Chandler

I agree, news was able to ‘leak out’ around the ‘mainstream media’. But they will have a REALLY TOUGH TIME now. They must cover the president...they can spike anything else they want, but they cannot get away with spiking the president...and they will not, as they didn’t under Reagan and other Republicans, even though they DESPISED those men.

That’s why this election was so important...it does end the media’s control over the people - they just don’t realize it yet.


48 posted on 12/18/2016 11:44:20 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: snarkytart

Trump will have 20 million Twitter followers by the time he assumes office.

He picked up 1 million more followers in the past 20 days.


49 posted on 12/18/2016 11:45:32 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: BobL

Winning again and the ripple effect from his Twitter and the media being forced to report, refute, or object to his Tweets will keep talking heads spinning all day long.

@realDonaldTrump dominates the news. He is sucking all the air out of their newsrooms. (pity the fools)


50 posted on 12/18/2016 11:50:30 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: chuck allen

“Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company”

pretty much SOP for company officers to sit on the board of subsidiaries that they own.

BTW, what’s the point of spamming this article as well as others today with this bot of irrelevant information?


51 posted on 12/18/2016 11:53:03 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: BobL
it does end the media’s control over the people - they just don’t realize it yet.

But they DO realize it. That's why they're setting up mechanisms to plug the holes in the wall. We need to stay one step ahead of them.

52 posted on 12/18/2016 12:06:15 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Robert Benchley spent Ten Years in a Quandary. It was in the 1920s and ‘30s.


53 posted on 12/18/2016 12:21:52 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Paladin2

If they don’t report it, the presumption is that it wasn’t fit to print.


54 posted on 12/18/2016 12:23:58 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Jack Kelly
People who work at journalism full time ought to be able to do a better job of it than people for whom it is a hobby. But that's not going to happen as long as we "professional" journalists ignore stories we don't like and try to hide our mistakes.

We think of ourselves as "gatekeepers.”
But there is not much future in being a gatekeeper when the walls are down.

55 posted on 12/18/2016 12:31:23 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘Liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

like the man said...... a man that buys ink by the barrel should not go to war with a President with a Twitter account


56 posted on 12/18/2016 12:33:20 PM PST by Thibodeaux (Exile Barack, Exile the Wookie, Exile Malia, Exile Shasha)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

They have been the gatekeepers from the truth.


57 posted on 12/18/2016 12:35:20 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

MSM should just totally ignore the Trump Administration and not report anything at all that Trump or his Administration do or say. That would really put a crimp in those hateful White Supremacist Islomophobic racists! But can we shut down the Internet first, maybe?


58 posted on 12/18/2016 12:49:14 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Quandary or Quagmire?


59 posted on 12/18/2016 12:50:26 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Cowboy Bob

If the NYT publishes it, it is by that fact True and for no other reason. It can change to being Untrue if the NYT feels a need to do a retraction.


60 posted on 12/18/2016 12:54:39 PM PST by arthurus
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