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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe media needs to stop calling them "briefings". They're not. They're campaign presentations.
When people praise a political candidate, that's a campaign spot.
When a candidate boasts about their record, their skills, their talents, their accomplishments, whatever, that's a campaign spot.
When political donors get praised and get airtime and recognition, that's a campaign event. In fact, it *has* to be a campaign event, because of it's an official event, then the officeholder is trading official acts for private gain, which is unethical if not illegal.
The network airtime should be considered a contribution-in-kind to Donnie's campaign.
Better yet, they should just ignore this crap, or give equal time to Biden.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)They do provide some info as to what happens if one cuts through BS and obsequiousness. It also forces the trump admin to try harder. For those reasons, I hope they continue.
unblock
(54,121 posts)First, it's helping his campaign directly simply because it's free. He reaches more people and doesn't have to pay for it.
Second, "no such thing as bad press," and Donnie certainly capitalizes on that. By November, when the virus is mostly under control (hopefully), he'll be able to claim that he was busy "doing stuff" and some people will think oh I guess he was part of the solution. Hey, it worked for ghouliani after 9/11....
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)There is bad press, and hes getting a load of it.
unblock
(54,121 posts)His political strategy, to the extent you could say he has one, is largely to give up on swaying anyone's opinion and instead focus on firing up those who already side with him, to make sure they donate and vote.
He's trying to position himself as someone who saved America from disaster. Part of that is for the disaster to seem and even to be as big as possible, but for him to be doing things that, come November when things are getting better, his people will remember him as having been the man in charge.
SheltieLover
(59,467 posts)K&R
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)He knows the Media will cover him daily since he threatened their FCC licenses . And Biden can not afford the Media buy time on a daily basis.
a shit show like him, all propaganda.
Shut him off. shut him down.
tblue37
(66,035 posts)Beartracks
(13,540 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)old guy
(3,292 posts)As long as they keep stroking his ego he will continue his dance.
unblock
(54,121 posts)or rather, that they think there's nothing to be learned from their abysmal campaign coverage in 2016.
lettucebe
(2,339 posts)so they're losing viewers. These things are horrible to witness.