Trump update 4/03/2018..negative coverage of Trump becoming ineffective

Elite media’s negative coverage of Trump becoming ineffective?

Critics hit Trump as ‘worst president ever’ despite approval

Why Trump is more popular than ever

……It’s not surprising that after little more than a year in office many people who voted for a president still support him. But it’s also surprising that a president who has been the object of more negative reporting than any in our history still enjoys something like the same middling base of support he had before taking office. Unless it’s the negative reporting that is the problem, which I suspect is very largely the case. You can only ask adults to participate in the fiction that a retweet of a wrestling GIF is a credible threat of violence against some nerd reporters at a cable station or delight in what you hope will be the failure of American trade policy before they decide to tune you out. Very largely this had already happened by Inauguration Day, but now the work of MSNBC and The New York Times and PolitiFact is complete. Millions of Americans do not know the difference between what is true and what is false and have decided that they do not much care either.

There was, I like fondly to imagine, a different course that might have been taken here. It is just possible, I suppose, that members of my profession could have exercised their reasoning faculties to decide what in the administration was good, what was bad, what was unremarkable or indistinguishable from what any modern president would do, what was painfully idiotic, what was, perhaps, evil. We chose not to exercise this responsibility. Instead we decided to indulge in our live-action roleplaying fantasies about being brave selfless journos taking on a mean demagogue because we love the Constitution so much.

There is, however, a faint glimmer of hope for Trump’s enemies in the
media. Making it work would require the coordinated efforts of a vast
number of persons — conspiracy is the word for it, or maybe even
“collusion” — but that shouldn’t be difficult in the era of modern
internet-based communication. If we want to convince people who voted
for him that the president no longer deserves their support, we need to
stop talking about him. Or to be more precise, we need to stop making
Trump the universal metric according to which all of human conduct is
weighed and considered.

If Trump argues
against free trade, consider the issue on its merits. The idea that
liberalizing the production and distribution of goods and services
across national borders will automatically enrich everyone — instead of
just the already wealthy in rich and poor countries alike — has had its
critics on the left and the right for centuries; even President Obama
was skeptical of NAFTA during his first Senate campaign and as late as
the 2008 election he was telling audiences that it should be
renegotiated. When Trump criticizes Amazon for its monopolistic
practices, don’t turn it into a tedious finger-wagging exercise in
fact-checking (and if you work for a newspaper owned by its founder and
CEO, maybe avoid saying anything if you don’t have to); subject the
company to the same scrutinty you would reserve for any other giant
corporation that treats America’s cities as its fiefdoms and her people
as its grateful serfs.

Pretending that anything the
president says or does is bad because he is the one saying or doing
isn’t just bad journalism. You might as well be wearing a MAGA hat and
whooping about the Wall.

Donald Trump convinced he’s his own best Adviser

President Trump Hosts a Press Conference with Baltic States Leaders April 3

Gen Michael Hayden on Donald Trump: Nobody has been tougher on Russia than me

‘We’re going to be guarding our border with the military’ until wall complete.

“UNTIL WE GET THE WALL THE MILITARY WILL GUARD OUR BORDER”

Should the US military guard the border with Mexico?