Steve Bannon - "The media is the opposition party"..."Should keep it's mouth shut!"

[HereticBD]

You're not too sharp are you?

You bore me.

...and everyone else, apparently.

 

[Octavian]

You bore me.

...and everyone else, apparently.

You still don't get it

 

[Jack V Savage]

I'm happy that I've perma-rustled you.

Clown.

So your reponse to the fact that you're being suckered in is to lash out. Cool.

 

[HereticBD]

You still don't get it

I get that you're purposefully trying to disrupt this thread with troll bait.

Any thoughts on the matter, or are you content with being a pathetically low like-to-post ratio twat?

 

[7437]

Why does Steven Bannon hate the constitution?

 

[HereticBD]

So your reponse to the fact that you're being suckered in is to lash out. Cool.

*response

 

[Octavian]

I get that you're purposefully trying to disrupt this thread with troll bait.

Any thoughts on the matter, or are you content with being a pathetically low like-to-post ratio twat?

Rustled and triggered ... weak

 

[HereticBD]

Rustled and triggered ... weak

The latter then.

Noted.

 

[Octavian]

Why does Steven Bannon hate the constitution?

Because he's a fat, abusive, anti Semitic, paranoid, fascist alcoholic fuck. Those tend to not respect rule of law.

 

[HomerThompson]

Ok serious question here - what's the proper way to cover Trump? How is the media supposed to react when he lies and acts like a little kid? If the Trump says 2 + 2 = 5 should everyone meet him in the middle and say it's 4.5? Wouldn't want to be biased.

They need to focus solely on his shit policy. They, as always, spend a lot of time on the theatricality of it all. The terrible regressive nature of his policies would be laid bare if the media focused on it and tried to do some real investigative journalism again.

 

[Octavian]

The latter then.

Noted.

Don't skulk off with your tail tucked between your legs.

 

[HomerThompson]

Bannon shamelessly fomenting the will for state media. I'm sure he'd like to be in charge of his own RIA Novosti.

It's pretty blatantly obvious at this point. I'm not sure how his true believers can't see it.

 

[Blackened]

As I was just mentioning in my last post, we have to stop looking at "the press" as a single, monolithic entity. Instead, we should support those agencies and reporters who do the best jobs, and we should call press members out when they fuck up.

As for the press digging their own grave, the thing is, we really don't want that. What we want is for them to do the best job they can. Because like I said before, literally try to imagine the world without the press. With no newspapers or news sites, no news radio or TV broadcasts, no magazines, none of that shit--with no reporters--you wouldn't even know what's going on in the next city, much less the next state, the next region or the next country.

To be honest, Bannon is kind of sounding like Dr. Goebbels. That said, the media is out of control and have way too much power.

 

[Bendo MMA Hero]

Threads like this one make it evident which Trump supporters will follow him down the rabbit hole that he is inevitably going to go down. Keep picking fights with the media.


Triggered and in need of a safe space?

 

[Fawlty]

It's pretty blatantly obvious at this point. I'm not sure how his true believers can't see it.

Well we can't let all that ground-laying for the Trump network go to waste, now can we?

 

[Guestx]

To be honest, Bannon is kind of sounding like Dr. Goebbels. That said, the media is out of control and have way too much power.

I would agree that many media members are being assholes. They are supposed to at least attempt to be objective and it seems pretty clear that we're not seeing much of that. These media outlets need to remember that the trust of the people has been placed into their hands and it's their responsibility to honor that trust by doing their best to leave personal agendas behind while reporting the news.

I'm not sure that I agree about the media having "way too much power" though. Power to the media is really power to the people, especially since literally anyone can instantly make themselves a member of the press by going out and reporting on something. It requires no license or degree, and now with the Internet it's very easy to get your information out there. If you wanted to grab a notepad and a pen, or a video camera, and go out into the world tomorrow and start reporting, you could do it and you're instantly part of "the media." And there are plenty of independent news organizations out there who aren't part of these huge corporations that we usually think of when we think of the press.

 

[Guestx]

Threads like this one make it evident which Trump supporters will follow him down the rabbit hole that he is inevitably going to go down. Keep picking fights with the media.

Triggered and in need of a safe space?

I'm a Trump supporter and he got me out to cast a vote for the first time in 16 years, but I have no problem on calling him on his bullshit. A candidate doesn't have to be perfect for them to gain my support though, they just have to be better than the alternative.

 

[Blackened]

I would agree that many media members are being assholes. They are supposed to at least attempt to be objective and it seems pretty clear that we're not seeing much of that. These media outlets need to remember that the trust of the people has been placed into their hands and it's their responsibility to honor that trust by doing their best to leave personal agendas behind while reporting the news.

I'm not sure that I agree about the media having "way too much power" though. Power to the media is really power to the people, especially since literally anyone can instantly make themselves a member of the press by going out and reporting on something. It requires no license or degree, and now with the Internet it's very easy to get your information out there. If you wanted to grab a notepad and a pen, or a video camera, and go out into the world tomorrow and start reporting, you could do it and you're instantly part of "the media." And there are plenty of independent news organizations out there who aren't part of these huge corporations that we usually think of when we think of the press.

Hey man, don't be so quick to defend them. They've convinced half the population this is normal. Something has to be done.

 

[Bendo MMA Hero]

I'm a Trump supporter and he got me out to cast a vote for the first time in 16 years, but I have no problem on calling him on his bullshit. A candidate doesn't have to be perfect for them to gain my support though, they just have to be better than the alternative.

I've got no issue with any of that. I voted Clinton for the exact same reason.

But if Clinton had won and were lashing out like this I would have the exact same response. The web Trump and his team are spinning should be troubling to any objective voter. Trump, Clinton, or third party.

 

[Guestx]

Hey man, don't be so quick to defend them. They've convinced half the population this is normal. Something has to be done.

I've done a fair amount of freelance writing for magazines over the past few years and I'm also working on becoming a documentarian (I've made a couple of short docs already, just amateur stuff), so I realize that if I attack the media I'm actually attacking myself and the profession that I'm working my way into.

So I'm very careful to separate "the press" from individual assholes and assholes organizations that fall under the label. To me, "the press" or "the media" is more of an idea . . . a concept . . . the belief that people should have access to information, than it is some evil entity out there that we need to battle against.

If a particular media outlet or reporter fucks up, then give them shit about it. Just remember that we'd be in a VERY bad spot informationally if no one was out there doing the job.