Printed newspapers are failing pretty much everywhere and have been for quite a while and Trump has nothing to do with any of it.
When I was a kid our little town of 300 people had its own weekly newspaper. That's been gone for nearly 40 years. The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press have been sharing printing facilities for 25 years or more. Our local county wide newspaper has been printing only every other day for quite a while.
The internet has done massive damage over the past 20 years.
My advice to all of them is go electronic only, ditch the paywall and sell advertising space.
That's true but then he hasn't done anything to HELP them either, has he? Hugh Hewitt had a theory on this and he believes it's possible that Trump and his people know exactly what they are doing. The net result of any direct back-and-forth that takes place is that the Mass Media look even more ineffective than before. The public get tired of the endless alarmism of the far leftist press and they lose even more credibility, while his popularity holds solidly at around 60%.
Let's keep in mind that DJT is not likely to ignore his advisers so any decision he makes likely passes muster with his advisers, including the amount of direct confrontation with the mass media that he engages in.
This is not unprecedented either. The form is different, but FDR did a similar thing when he bypassed the mass media and did the weekly fireside chats. RWR had his weekly radio addresses (which only involved the media as passive instrument, not as an interpretive device.
Every time the president communicates DIRECTLY
