Posted on 12/04/2016 7:51:47 AM PST by jennychase
I think one of the reasons people get so concerned about the tweets is it is sort of a way around the press. He doesn't have to rely upon, uh, rely upon -- this is the modern era, modern technology. He's at the point where we don't need you guys anymore.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Cheney’s aim is true...BAM!
Actually, it is the cut that will go the deepest and hurt the most.
Roosevelt understood that his administration's success depended upon a favorable dialogue with the electorate — possible only through methods of mass communication — and that the true power of the presidency was the ability to take the initiative. The use of radio for direct appeals was perhaps the most important of FDR's innovations in political communication.[1]:153 Roosevelt's opponents had control of most newspapers in the 1930s and press reports were under their control and involved their editorial commentary. Historian Betty Houchin Winfield says, "He and his advisers worried that newspapers' biases would affect the news columns and rightly so."[2] Historian Douglas B. Craig says that he "offered voters a chance to receive information unadulterated by newspaper proprietors' bias" through the new medium of radio.
Cheney gets it! ;)
Actually, it is the cut that will go the deepest and hurt the most.
Dinosaurs meet meteor ( The Donald) you are extinct.....
So a Twitter account may be needed?
I’ve rejected Facebook,
But I like being “cutting edge “
That’s why I am a FReeper ,and
Drudge.
Twitter,,,
Best Vice President ever.
An interesting comparison - Since MOST of FDR’s “country stories” were complete lies about never-seen “old folks” who “advised” him on national policy and international relations!
The MSM finally jumped the shark and has squandered its influence by obsessively promoting a political agenda instead of reporting the news. Fake news has displaced the truth and the media feel justified because they believe they ultimately know what’s best for us.
It’s kind of hard break bread with a group who dishonestly tried to destroy you and still paints you in a bad light.
Trump should feel no guilt in cutting them off.
This is the big takeaway from the election, and the Barbara Starrs (whoever she is) are the last to figure it out.
For those who have desire and drive, there is no longer a need to sit in front of that talking box or wait for the paperboy to drop yesterday’s news in the driveway in order to know what is going on in the world.
And once one discovers the other avenues, the biases of the former sources become crystal clear.
All three viewers of CNN agreed.
Bingo! He's always been a square shooter (needs a bit of practice with shotguns). ;-)
Good analogy!
“Why doesn’t anyone , I mean anyone, say TEA PARTY anymore?
(Isn’t that where this movement originated?) “
I think there was a massive change in the electorate and that change was broadly referred to as the Tea Party. But I don’t think an actual party existed. I am hard put to name a spokesman who had an office rented under the name Tea Party. I think this was a real grass roots movement. With the movement’s goals of electing somebody they thought could roll back years of liberalism possibly filled, the movement has gone dark. But like shoals in the path of ships, we are still there waiting for another low tide to reveal us again.
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