By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--December 14, 2016
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“And here’s another, again sent at 6.16 am, this time on the 22nd November: “I cancelled today’s meeting with the failing nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice.” “Now I can’t tell you why or how Donald Trump came to send these two tweets – or even what spooky significance we should attach to the tweeting hour of 6.16 in the morning in the Trump household. What I do know, not to make a political point but simply as a matter of personal observation and knowledge, is that both of these statements were and are untrue. "The “failing” New York Times has not lost “thousands of subscribers” since the election. On the contrary, there has been a spectacular surge in subscriptions, with weeks during which we have seen ten times as many new subscribers as the same period last year.”An uneducated guess on the “spooky significance” of Trump twice tweeting at 6:16 a.m.: Coffee at 6:15, Tweeting away one minute later. Thompson’s account of what took place after Trump decided to turn up after initially postponing a 75-minute, on-the-record meeting with the fair-minded and objective NYT executive, is literally—Thompson’s account of it.
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…”As you’ve heard, proper journalism is expensive to make. The print advertising which once paid for it is in steep decline and, for the reasons we’ve discussed, the hope that digital advertising would grow to replace the lost revenue has turned out to be hollow. The result for many newspapers is cuts, layoffs and a bleak future. “It’s like any quality product. If you want real journalism, you as a consumer will have to pay for it. So subscribe. Subscribe to your local paper, or The New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal, or the Washington Post, or, if you’re feeling particularly flush, to all of the above. “But don’t rely on someone else – big advertisers, Silicon Valley, Santa Claus – to step in to save the day. Real journalism is vital to our democracy, and it has to be paid for. If not, it will largely disappear and leave the field open for Pizzagate, and that zombie army of illegal voters, and all the rest of it. “If you as a citizen are worried about fake news, put your money where your mouth is and pay for the real thing.”Running press releases verbatim from the DNC is not real news. Whether it’s the print media or the digital one, readers want the REAL thing, the truth, absolutely unadulterated and free from the lying politicians of any party that happens to be in power. If the Trump victory has proven any thing it’s that the influence of the lib-left is fast fading. Unfortunately but all the same ergo, so is the influence of their sycophantic running dog media.
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