Corporate Media 'All Trump All the Time' Just Like 2016

Friday, September 27, 2024

It's beginning to feel like 2016 all over again. Donald Trump is locked in a heated presidential race versus a Democratic nominee who could make history as the first female President of the United States.

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Polls show a tighter race than expected -- especially given Trump's open racism, sexism and bigotry that many thought would sink his campaign.

And when you turn on cable news or read an article about the race, it's all Trump, all the time.

Except, of course, when the media is criticizing the Democratic nominee.

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"How much did corporate media help Trump in 2016?

As studies after the 2016 election documented, Trump was provided with more than $5 billion in free media coverage.

For context, that was more free media than Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio received in the 2016 campaign COMBINED-- according to data from tracking firm mediaQuant.

Why was Trump gifted such a massive amount of free corporate media coverage?

The then head of CBS Les Moonves candidly answered that during the 2016 campaign, telling us Trump "may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS."

Moonves continued, "The money's rolling in, this is fun ... I've never seen anything like this and this is going to be a very good year for us."

The former CBS head honcho added, "It's a terrible thing to say, but bring it on, Donald, go ahead, keep going."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-25 09:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I wonder how much this site counts in contributions

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-09-25 09:25 PM | Reply

The DR is corporate media?

Face it. The man is a living dumpster fire and everyone is waiting for the next explosion.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-09-25 09:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Researcher : The average radio listener listens for eighteen minutes. The average Howard Stern fan listens for - are you ready for this? - an hour and twenty minutes.

Pig Vomit : How can that be?

Researcher : Answer most commonly given? "I want to see what he'll say next."

Pig Vomit : Okay, fine. But what about the people who hate Stern?

Researcher : Good point. The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day.

Pig Vomit : But... if they hate him, why do they listen?

Researcher : Most common answer? "I want to see what he'll say next"

#4 | Posted by censored at 2024-09-25 09:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's almost all negative coverage.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-09-25 10:24 PM | Reply

Missing the point entirely... yet again.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-25 11:05 PM | Reply

I get the point. You are rationalizing. You seem the believe that incessantly negative coverage somehow benefits Trump.

It's delusional, but here we are.

Maybe if your beloved candidates stopped hiding from the media like the plague, they'd get more coverage.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-09-25 11:12 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

It's almost all negative coverage.

Posted by BellRinger

That's because the campaign in his hands is as downbeat and negative as I've ever seen in my life.

Depressing, fearful, dark, dystopian nightmare talk, etc etc. It's the darkest campaign messaging from a presidential candidate I've ever seen in my life. I bet his campaign team wishes he'd stick to the script instead of being the Minister of Doom.

#8 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-26 02:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

It's almost all negative coverage.
Posted by BellRinger

No, it isn't. They continue to sanewash him everyday.

#9 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-26 09:15 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 7

Gal for win!

And it's OK, Jeffy. You and Trump will always have Paris.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-26 12:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

" No, it isn't. They continue to sanewash him everyday.
#9 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY AT 2024-09-26 09:15 AM | FLAG: |

When measured it's absolutely intensely negative.

#11 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-09-26 05:44 PM | Reply

Maybe that is because ------- is an absolutely intensely negative candidate.

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-09-26 06:05 PM | Reply

" Maybe that is because ------- is an absolutely intensely negative candidate.

#12 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2024-09-26 06:05 PM | FLAG: "

I don't disagree. However what Corky is suggesting is that intensely negative coverage of Trump somehow benefits him. It's absurd.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-09-26 10:28 PM | Reply

@#13 ... However what Corky is suggesting is that intensely negative coverage of Trump somehow benefits him. It's absurd. ...

First, please justify your current alias' assertion about what Corky is suggesting.

Is it what it is really suggesting, or your interpreting what it is suggesting?

Then, secondarily, justify why your current alias thinks it is absurd.

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-26 10:47 PM | Reply

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-09-26 11:07 PM | Reply

- It's absurd.

Then it should have been easy for you to make a counterargument to the points made in the article... oh, wait, attention troll.

Never mind.

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-26 11:36 PM | Reply

It's almost all negative coverage.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger

Almost all corporate media is conservative and therefore pro trump. Yet you crybabies whine life isn't fair for you.

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-27 01:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Why was Trump gifted such a massive amount of free corporate media coverage?

The then head of CBS Les Moonves candidly answered that during the 2016 campaign, telling us Trump "may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS."

Moonves continued, "The money's rolling in, this is fun ... I've never seen anything like this and this is going to be a very good year for us."

The former CBS head honcho added, "It's a terrible thing to say, but bring it on, Donald, go ahead, keep going."

#1 | Posted by Corky

my first question was to be ' and whose fault was that ?

and I actually got a credible answer from something called a... " corky"

showing there's a first time for everything...:) :)

#18 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-09-28 08:28 AM | Reply

"Almost all corporate media is conservative and therefore pro trump."

I'm sorry...but what???

#19 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-09-28 02:35 PM | Reply