Listen as Larry spoke with Nick Johnston, Editor-in-Chief of Axios, regarding Jim VandeHei‘s latest article, Trump’s mind-numbing media manipulation machine.
There is a very specific — and dangerous — formula for manipulating the media and hijacking the Twitter/cable/conventional media industrial complex. Trump sets this formulaic trap increasingly often. And news organizations keep falling for it.
Step 1: Throw an early morning Twitter bomb, usually but not always timed to “Fox & Friends” fodder or reinforcement. The Tweet-bomb frequently hits “fake news” or some social topic with racial undertones. [Read More]
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