Press got him elected. He would not have won without CNN. I wonder how much more value CNN has as a brand now due to Trump's own promotion of them.

CNN was third rate cable news, like the third place out of the three behind Fox and MSNBC. Now they seem like the biggest lol. Fox News is the biggest mainstream news though, and they cup Trump's balls.

He gets his own news station, the biggest media station on earth probably, and you act victimized on que. Poor ting.

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trump implied a larger percent of migrants are rapists and murderers than is fact to rile up supporters, even his GOP colleagues disliked his rhetoric. the media reported well in line with his colleagues, and the war began from that point.

it was ping pong from that moment forward of media lies vs slanted reporting.

thats about as simple as we can get without doing 2 hours research into age old articles and its accurate enough to paint the picture.

Give up. You're just wrong on this hill. The media is corrupt and a tool of Soros/Carlos Slim/China.

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how does that undercut my point that Trump was shortsighted in his approach to battling the media?

North Korea is corrupt, that doesnt make compliance by citizens under the 3 generation punishment rule idiots. for an extreme example.

if u want to change the media u can work with them to get better reporting to the american people, or u can come out guns blazing then cry when u get shot down by superior gunpower.

Trump just hands them ammo on a daily basis, even if u cut through the slant. the second he gets off the script he exaggerates, boasts, and plays the victim as if he's never told a lie in all his life. even in the best viewpoint he's a deeply flawed messiah character in the battle against the media.

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Trump's imperfection isn't relevant.

The media doesn't want to work together. Obama had the media by the balls because he used mob tactics to jail dissenters. Your perception of the choices is simply wrong.

it isn't relevant because it inconvenient to your argument which is a strawman. i never said the media is fair, balanced, or unbiased. you went there as a strawman, plain and simple.

so trump can work with fox news but if he gets a question he doesnt like from a reporter he doesnt like he can just walk away and play the victim? cool.

if he was more measured and poignant he could get more fair treatment, not fair totally but more fair. he's too flawed as it is to even get good treatment from a balance press. he trips over his own words.

It's just par for the course for Trump and his cronies:



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The mainstream media was fellating Hillary and gave her the nod way before Trump started to mouth off. You could google articles from 2016 from outlets like CNN talking about how if you don't vote for her it's because you hate strong women and are sexist. Naturally the likes of CNN started to attack Trump being he was her opponent. These attacks only really started to happen as he was clearly going to be the nominee, before that he was just viewed as the next Ron Paul who will fade out of the race once the Bush/Rubio/Kasich establishment types shine.

That's not fair b/c the NY Times doesn't have a network. You also need to add OANN to the left and it should balance out pretty well.