Trump Is Beating the Media at Its Own Game

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The American Spectator
George Neumayr
Feb. 22, 2017

The left’s own politics by shorthand is now being turned against it.

Once asked by an aide to respond to a letter to the editor from one of his critics, Vladimir Lenin refused, saying: “Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.”

That has been the modus operandi of the left for decades. It doesn’t respond to arguments with arguments but with stigmatizing names designed to end debate. As the communications arm of the left, the media conforms perfectly to Lenin’s method. Instead of rebutting the arguments of conservatives, it has found it easier to brand them as “enemies” of science, women, minorities, the poor, and so on.

Whenever editors say that they refuse to acknowledge “two sides” on such matters as “marriage equality” or Darwinism or climate change, they are paying homage to Lenin’s devious politics by shorthand. They pay homage to it whenever they substitute their opinions of the news for actual reporting of the news. Even the squabbling among journalists recently over whether or not to suspend “conventional reporting” in Trump’s case, or whether front-page stories should declare his misstatements “lies,” is a tacit acknowledgment of that politics. With Lenin, the Christiane Amanpours have no use for the peskiness of precise responses. Just call Trump a “liar,” their attitude goes, and “everyone will understand everything.”

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[truth_seeker]

Very insightful and instructive.

[endicom]

Very insightful and instructive.

And it doesn't necessarily mean that the press is loaded with Bolsheviks. People do what they know to have worked.

[truth_seeker]

And it doesn't necessarily mean that the press is loaded with Bolsheviks. People do what they know to have worked.

It appears this GOP administration shows evidence of huevos, of the type thought to have gone extinct.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

He labels reporters in the same way that they label him. He upends their dishonest framing of debates by treating them as what they are, liberal partisans.

This is brilliant.  They more the media portrays President Trump as a villain the thicker they make his future Teflon coating.

[endicom]

This is brilliant.  They more the media portrays President Trump as a villain the thicker they make his future Teflon coating.

Brilliant or not, I think he knows he can fight back or become their doormat.