Trump Update 8/17/2019... Should the Public Still View the New York Times as a News Outlet? Or as Something Else? (Video)

How the New York Times became a media parody. Joe Concha with Sebastian Gorka on America First

Thank you to @SaraCarterDC. A great and legitimate reporter, as opposed to those at the Failing New York Times! https://t.co/oM7vEvt9xO

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2019

Question raised by leaked New York Times transcript, plus rollout of 1619 project: Should the public still view the Times as a news outlet? Or as something else? https://t.co/28AbrrPgnt

— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 17, 2019

AOC: All Trump Supporters Are Racist And Need To Be Educated That They Are Racist!

Sunday on Full Measure: Claims of media bias aren’t new, but they are heightened. What will this mean for the 2020 election? Find out results of our Full Measure poll. #2020 pic.twitter.com/r0H6i94NuK

— Full Measure News (@FullMeasureNews) August 16, 2019

Such a disgrace at the once great @nytimes! https://t.co/UKjP6AU0hz

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2019

New York Times chief outlines coverage shift: From Trump-Russia to Trump racism

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/new-york-times-chief-outlines-coverage-shift-from-trump-russia-to-trump-racism

The headline controversy, it appears, was a preview of a new 2019-2020 New York Times. If Baquet follows through, the paper will spend the next two years, which just happens to be the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, building the Trump-is-a-racist narrative. (Baquet added, almost as an afterthought, that the Times will “continu[e] to cover his policies.”) The employee town hall was not intended to be public. But the Times is a news organization, and no one could be surprised that a recording of it leaked, possibly by Times employees who want to push Baquet in an even more anti-Trump direction. In any event, it’s now public. And the results will play out for the next two years.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/new-york-times-meeting-transcript.html

Baquet: OK. I mean, let me go back a little bit for one second to just repeat what I said in my in my short preamble about coverage. Chapter 1 of the story of Donald Trump, not only for our newsroom but, frankly, for our readers, was: Did Donald Trump have untoward relationships with the Russians, and was there obstruction of justice? That was a really hard story, by the way, let’s not forget that. We set ourselves up to cover that story. I’m going to say it. We won two Pulitzer Prizes covering that story. And I think we covered that story better than anybody else. The day Bob Mueller walked off that witness stand, two things happened. Our readers who want Donald Trump to go away suddenly thought, “Holy shit, Bob Mueller is not going to do it.” And Donald Trump got a little emboldened politically, I think. Because, you know, for obvious reasons. And I think that the story changed. A lot of the stuff we’re talking about started to emerge like six or seven weeks ago. We’re a little tiny bit flat-footed. I mean, that’s what happens when a story looks a certain way for two years. Right?

I think that we’ve got to change. I mean, the vision for coverage for the next two years is what I talked about earlier: How do we cover a guy who makes these kinds of remarks? How do we cover the world’s reaction to him? How do we do that while continuing to cover his policies? How do we cover America, that’s become so divided by Donald Trump? How do we grapple with all the stuff you all are talking about? How do we write about race in a thoughtful way, something we haven’t done in a large way in a long time? That, to me, is the vision for coverage. You all are going to have to help us shape that vision. But I think that’s what we’re going to have to do for the rest of the next two years. This is no longer a story where the Washington bureau every week nails some giant story by [Washington correspondent] Mike Schmidt that says that Donald Trump or Don McGahn did this. That will remain part of the story, but this is a different story now. This is a story that’s going to call on different muscles for us. The next few weeks, we’re gonna have to figure out what those muscles are.

Trump Warns of Economic Downturn if He Loses Next Year

I read that Trump rally was rambling/half-empty. I also read the opposite. I like to watch candidates’ rallies myself so I can see… without the spin. I did so in 2016-16. It’s not entirely why I predicted (starting in 15) Trump would win, but it was part of the picture. https://t.co/i3j8y9KgKn

— Sharyl Attkisson🕵️‍♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) August 16, 2019

The Fake News Media HATES to see this! https://t.co/VMgyggOQ3Q

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2019

Biggest crowd EVER, according to Arena people. Thousands outside trying to get in. Place was packed! Radical Left Dems & their Partner, LameStream Media, saying Arena empty. Check out pictures. Fake News. The Enemy of the People! https://t.co/KkZWspM93a

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2019

We care because the news would have us think he has no support and that Joe Biden is leading in the polls when he can’t even get 96 people to stay awake at his rally.

— AZTrumplican ❤️🇺🇸💙 (@AZTrumplican) August 17, 2019

Portland on Edge Patriots vs. Antifa

Portland Antifa Protesters Say Antifa Doesn’t Instigate Violence They Just Respond To It!

Major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an “ORGANIZATION OF TERROR.” Portland is being watched very closely. Hopefully the Mayor will be able to properly do his job!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2019

Everywhere the group ANTIFA (Anti-First Amendment) goes, violence and chaos follows. This is a violent, anti-civil liberties, group of thugs looking to hurt and injure anyone in their way.

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) August 17, 2019

Hong Kong protesters plead for Trump’s help