On today’s BradCast, U.S. media failed to report on the rise and dangers of Mussolini and Hitler with the gravity that was warranted in the 20s and 30s. Are they making similar mistakes today with the rise and elevation of Donald Trump to President of the United States? [Audio link to show is posted below.]
Media Matters’ Matt Gertz joins me to today to argue Trump’s bizarre press conference on Wednesday, his first since the November election (first since last July, actually), revealed more than a dozen “signs of how bad press treatment will be under Trump”. At the presser, the day after the release of an unsubstantiated dossier charging personal and financial compromise with Russia, Trump refused questions from either CNN or BuzzFeed News, declaring them both to be “fake news” for breaking various elements of the story. Gertz suggests the way it played out illustrates that the media are both failing to push back against Trump, and are likely underestimating how bad things are likely to get for them (and all of us) once he becomes President.
“This was not something that came out of nowhere,” Gertz tells me. “This was clearly the strategy going into the press conference: to attack Buzzfeed, to attack CNN, to tie the two of them together, and to suggest that all of their reporting was illegitimate.”
“They’re going to go on trying to de-legitimize the media, one by one, piece by piece, to make it impossible for anyone to try to get out critical news analysis about what his administration is doing. This was the first step, and it’s going to keep getting worse,” he warns. “Trump bragged on the campaign trail that he could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and could shoot somebody and he wouldn’t lose voters. Rhetorically speaking, that’s what he basically did to [CNN’s] Jim Acosta. He basically took him out in front of the entire press corps, humiliated him, pretty brutality, and other reporters just sort of moved along. They went on and they asked their questions, and they just kept going.”
But were CNN and BuzzFeed wrong to report as they did in the first place? And do the media, in general, have only themselves to blame for the spot they’re in at this point? Have they learned anything from last Wednesday, much last the past year? And is that Breitbart clown “reporter” Matt Boyle the new “Jeff Gannon”? We discuss all of that and much more during today’s conversation.
Also today: The GOP Congress gets one step closer to dismantling health care for millions of Americans; What’s up with the cancellation of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s second day of confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate?; Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report as Obama bids farewell and seeks reason on climate change; And a particularly smelly Inauguration Day cover-up is revealed…
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What is scarier to me is the way his supporters treat the news. Once they don’t like it, it’s fake news. Ask them to say what exactly is fake, they won’t answer. They are pathetic and scary. Because “wonderful” Republicans like Jason Chaffetz wants to go after ethics people, I fear this country is coming to an end.
credibility already been destroyed, by it’s awareness of Lord Monckton. (if they who OPERATE BB don’t have awareness then they ain’t journalists!) A fast look at this blog, and one can see BB sat and attacked nearly every aspect of trump instead of getting busy and checking the climate math for the truth as was so graciously pointed out to you. nary even a look at podesta. Nada nothing – silence. well you do have a right to be silent but I wouldn’t call you a journalist
I ain’t going to LET you LIE to the PUBLIC, “you were made aware of these newly found math errors”
Ya don’t respond cause it’s a BIG fraud.
That’s the situation.
The other ironic joke is out of all this time you ain’t taught one person one DIY trick to save electricity.
For those with a sense of humor, I will give some REAL alternative energy news in your wake.
RIP green news,
JELLO GREEN TROLL NEWS
TROLLIN YOUR MISDIRECTED LAZY SOULS WITH THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
First Issue
1-16-2017
title: alkaline waste
instead of using alkaline batteries one time and into the trash bin. re-use alkaline batteries in a charger for an hour.
but it says don’t do it.
Can be repeated to recharge 8 times and then throw away to avoid the manufacturer’s warning about any sudden squirrel pee coming out of it. keep track of recharges, use a sharpie.
when a battery has really low or Zero Volts throw it the hell away, it won’t recharge. Get a cheap electrical timer wall shutoff switch, don’t go over an hour charging at a time. Be observant instead of lazy, if somethings leaking toss it out and clean it up.
Can thank me later after you go WOW hot damn.. with your plastic bowls of recharged bats.
want to say thanks?
Each of you who benefited from todays green troll news, Please ask brad about the faulty Climate Change Math Errors Lord Christopher Monckton has exposed.
Till next time
EFGN
I have a life.
Why do I want to listen to SOROS propaganda.
media matters is soros funded. For this FUNDING they are tainted by the soros propaganda family umbrella.
This is gonna be good!
A Colosseum full of Trump supporters, shouting down the journalists in the tiny cage. 🙂
ENDFakeGreenNews:
That name from your mothers or fathers side?