I did not say they were for him. I said they gave him free coverage. I implied they put ratings and profit over politics. The coverage they gave him benifited him. The lack of covereage to his opponents hurt his opponents and helped him.The so-called mainstream media gave invaluable help to Trump during the campaign. His speeches and rallies were covered start to finish on all the major networks. The brainwashed follow the propaganda about the MSM giving a special advantage, but they are in reality profit driven entities and that is their priority. Trump was a rating magnet and so he got the billions of dollars worth of free coverage from the media. No other candidate got their speeches and events covered the way Trump did.Of course, the media will have a meltdown over this. They hate the thought of not being able to put their spin on things before letting the American people hear about the latest events. This way, Trump's words can't be twisted though you can bet the media will still try to spin things by claiming he means something other than what he is saying or they'll just claim it's false.
The media doesn't want people to make up their own minds and that is why they pick and choose which information to report. This should infuriate them that Trump doesn't see the need for bias middle men when talking to the American people.
"Incoming President Donald Trump will go around the mainstream media by making public policy announcements directly on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
The move, which is unprecedented for a president, is designed to limit the mainstream media’s role as an information filter by reaching the American people directly through social media.
“The fact of the matter is that when he tweets, he gets results,” incoming Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday. “You know, with all due respect, I think it freaks the mainstream media out that he has this following of over 45 plus million people that follow him on social media, that he can have a direct conversation.”
“He doesn’t have to have it funneled through the media.”
The president’s use of Twitter will curtail the media’s ability to spin his message because mainstream reporters will no longer have insider privilege at the White House, which they did under past administration thanks to press events closed to the public.
And Trump’s move will likely spark a new era of citizen-journalism similar to colonial America in which independent newspapers thrived because, at the time, there wasn’t an establishment media controlling the flow of information.
The public will now have the same sources of information as mainstream reporters, which means the public will be able to draw their own conclusions about the Trump administration without being led like cattle to a predetermined “opinion” pushed by the establishment media.
Without public ignorance to the truth, the media will fail to advance the globalist agenda which accelerated after the technocratic takeover of the Carter administration.
It’s a new era of independent thought, so it’s not surprising why the mainstream media is having a panic attack.
“…The fact that the media suddenly finds itself locked out in this most important of information dissemination and filtration pathways, has unleashed the biggest period of soul-searching for the conventional press in decades,” Zero Hedge pointed out."
Trump to Bypass Mainstream Media, Take Message Direct to the People
Its a damned good idea and the reason he got elected. He got his message out there and it wasn't though the LSM.
He used Twitter and boy howdy did it work.
How he deals with the media will be interesting to watch. He doesn't really need to deal with them as long as Twitter is around but it should be interesting. LOL
The so called msm were against Trump, and behind clinton, all the way, as were many in the republican party. That they couldn't not cover his rallies doesn't mean they were on his side.