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Everyday, Americans can expect Trump
or his Trump trolls, to say something
to cause outrage.
It attracts free publicity.
Outrage Republicans
Outrage Democrats
Outrage Conservatives
Outrage Wingnuts
Outrage taxpayers
Outrage immigrants
Outrage minorities
Outrage LGBT
Outrage women
Outrage Peta
Outrage all the voters
Outrage all of the world
Why provoke all of this outrage ?
Trump is using a simple combination of two political devices, pivoting deftly from one to the other. The first is the tried-and-true form of dog-whistle politics to rally racial resentment. The second taps into anger and legitimate public disgust over the failures of capitalism. In other words, he is solidifying the resentment-filled voter base that backed him from the start, and is overtly wooing the base that Bernie Sanders inspired but abandoned when the Democratic Party undermined his nomination. Trump’s acceptance speech was a repetitive exercise in this two-prong approach, and with the combination of these two seemingly disparate voter bases, he sees victory in November.
Never mind that Trump himself is a key player in the financial system that has devastated ordinary Americans—he gets away with that contradiction by earning the oxymoronic and Orwellian moniker of “blue-collar billionaire” from the likes of Jerry Falwell Jr.
gsgs comment-
It does not matter if everything is based on lies.
Trump tells an entertaining story.
Trump gives what is wanted.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2...ategy-victory-clear-are-democrats-able-see-it
Q: Why is it important to take time to debunk media-driven myths?
A: Because they aren't trivial. They aren't innocuous. Media-driven myths can and do have adverse consequences. They tend to distort understanding about the role and function of journalism in American society. They often confer on the news media far more power and influence than they really possess. Media myths tend to minimize the complexity of historical events in favor of simplistic and misleading interpretations. And media myths can deflect blame away from the makers and sponsors of flawed public policy.
Media myths can feed stereotypes, too. The highly exaggerated news reports of nightmarish violence in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in 2005 essentially defamed the battered city and impugned its residents at a time of their deep despair.
Media myths also invite indulgence in the "golden age fallacy"—a flawed but appealing belief that there really was a time when journalist were inspiring and respected heroic figures.
So media-driven myths can be deceiving and illusory. Trivial and innocuous they aren't.
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520262096
W. Joseph Campbell
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/w-joseph-campbell/getting-it-wrong-why-many_b_582105.html
or his Trump trolls, to say something
to cause outrage.
It attracts free publicity.
Outrage Republicans
Outrage Democrats
Outrage Conservatives
Outrage Wingnuts
Outrage taxpayers
Outrage immigrants
Outrage minorities
Outrage LGBT
Outrage women
Outrage Peta
Outrage all the voters
Outrage all of the world
Why provoke all of this outrage ?
Trump is using a simple combination of two political devices, pivoting deftly from one to the other. The first is the tried-and-true form of dog-whistle politics to rally racial resentment. The second taps into anger and legitimate public disgust over the failures of capitalism. In other words, he is solidifying the resentment-filled voter base that backed him from the start, and is overtly wooing the base that Bernie Sanders inspired but abandoned when the Democratic Party undermined his nomination. Trump’s acceptance speech was a repetitive exercise in this two-prong approach, and with the combination of these two seemingly disparate voter bases, he sees victory in November.
Never mind that Trump himself is a key player in the financial system that has devastated ordinary Americans—he gets away with that contradiction by earning the oxymoronic and Orwellian moniker of “blue-collar billionaire” from the likes of Jerry Falwell Jr.
gsgs comment-
It does not matter if everything is based on lies.
Trump tells an entertaining story.
Trump gives what is wanted.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2...ategy-victory-clear-are-democrats-able-see-it
Q: Why is it important to take time to debunk media-driven myths?
A: Because they aren't trivial. They aren't innocuous. Media-driven myths can and do have adverse consequences. They tend to distort understanding about the role and function of journalism in American society. They often confer on the news media far more power and influence than they really possess. Media myths tend to minimize the complexity of historical events in favor of simplistic and misleading interpretations. And media myths can deflect blame away from the makers and sponsors of flawed public policy.
Media myths can feed stereotypes, too. The highly exaggerated news reports of nightmarish violence in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in 2005 essentially defamed the battered city and impugned its residents at a time of their deep despair.
Media myths also invite indulgence in the "golden age fallacy"—a flawed but appealing belief that there really was a time when journalist were inspiring and respected heroic figures.
So media-driven myths can be deceiving and illusory. Trivial and innocuous they aren't.
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520262096
W. Joseph Campbell
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/w-joseph-campbell/getting-it-wrong-why-many_b_582105.html
