And how is that working for them?
[And how is that working for them?]
Considering the number of emails I get from my local newspapers practically GIVING AWAY subscriptions, my guess is not very well.
To the radical far left extremists it may be a good come on for them. To people with a brain, not so much.
This sort of thing used to work really well. I remember back in 1970 as a photographer for my school newspaper, discussing an op ed with the editor that he wrote. I knew that it was not really what he believed. He said, my goal is not to say what I believe. My goal is to get people to read it and have a strong emotional response.
Or something like that.
It enlightened my perspective on “non-news” information in all publications and TV/Radio from that day forward.
But today, we are in a cold Civil War. People respond by cancelling subscriptions.
Talk about a fool’s errand. Trying to talk down Trump, when he goes right around the media and talks to the people (the whole purpose of his frequent rallies), shows their cognitive dissonance, and that they are now out of sync with a growing proportion of the public.
Sure, Donald J. Trump is crude and rude, and sometimes a little lewd, but he is also shrewd, and that manages to make him look like a REAL person, which counts for a lot when matched up against the cardboard caricatures of him painted by the media, who are not only tone deaf, they have also a poor eye in describing details.