Two commentaries on PDT’s expert manipulation of the MFM. From Instapundit on how the media’s hubris has led them to a place where their squawking is profitable but irrelevant:
The Educated Class’s emphasis on intra-class virtue signaling — which is what all this smugness and ridicule is about — undermines every institution it controls. And it lacks the self-awareness and self-control to do anything about that.
Of a piece with that, an article at FrontPage arguing that Trump’s real genius lies in his understanding of the root motivations of the media — greed and arrogance — and how he exploits both of them to is advantage. He really is the first president to understand we live in an era of clickbait.
The media spent eight years declining into irrelevance under Obama. Even before Trump, Obama had bypassed the media for social media. The big stories were fed to the press by Obama Inc. cronies like Ben Rhodes or hidden hand political smear shops like Fusion GPS. Even its core mission of cheerleading the left had become meaningless as younger lefties no longer bothered reading, watching or even clicking on mainstream media sites. The media was running out of customers, money and relevance.
Trump revived the media. The young lefties helping monetize the media again are coming for him. And every time he attacks the media, he makes it more relevant. The ritually insincere public wails about the unique threat to the free press posed by snarky tweets from the White House mask the private celebrations in every newsroom that Trump is making them into the center of attention once again.
Sometimes you have to lift something up out of the hole it’s fallen into in order to see if it’s dead or to kill it properly.
“He really is the first president to understand we live in an era of clickbait.”
And as a recent tweet of his shows, he may also be the first president who knows what is the only proper response to the pathetic threats of psychopatic tyrant fat kids:
“Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”
Not-so-unexpected follow-up from the fat kid psycho:
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/01/03/north-and-south-korea-test-hotline-after-trump-taunts-kim-jong-un
“Lol” 😀
I often wonder if the Trump-Tillerson Good-cop Bad-cop strategy is to taunt the little fat one into ordering a nuke launch, where-upon the NK generals will either shoot him on the spot — or depose him. The Generals must know that if they actually launch, they will die a meaningless death, …and their families will die too.
It’s one thing to die for “the cause”, or even to cynically go-along will either “surviving” — or racking up the loot and graft. But to die ignominiously for nothing? I don’t think so.
@3
Neither do I
And yet, it isn’t extremely difficult to imagine one could make the case that may be some sort of national sport over there, if only for their elites, even when from the same famous bloodline (*)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/24/kim-jong-un-killed-uncle-half-brother-over-china-coup-plot-report-says.html
(* pun intended)