There is no one trick to stop him but they can stop helping him by ignoring his distractions.

Trump is not using a new strategy. It is a well established propaganda technique. We know what it is and how to resist it. Simply ignore the distractions and focus on the issues.

This is not a trick, its good journalism.

Whether there should be less coverage of tweets that have nothing to do with policy is a much closer question, especially if you think that news outlets, by reporting on those tweets, unknowingly make themselves complicit in Trump' s efforts to divert attention from policy. To me, this smacks of the old argument that Trump is playing 4D chess when I suspect that be doesn't even know the rules of chess, but I can see the other side.

The counterargument is that Trump's constant disrespect towards minorities and woman, and his obviously unsuitable temperament, are themselves news stories.

this would be like the media running a story every day that Trump is rich. It's not news anymore. It's well established fact.

The media has two choices, another story among thousands of Trump being a pig or coverage of the health care bill, deregulation, Sessions attempts to criminalize being a minority or the gutting of climate change policy.

There are only so many minutes in a broadcast or inches in a column. Do we need more reminding the world Trump is a pig?

trump is a ratings machine

I hear this all the time. Is there actually evidence it is true?

Your question is loaded to get a particular answer. Nice try. You should have asked yourself why I ignored it and you wouldn't need this response.

The Apprentice was the 67th highest rated show his last year as host.

Suppose that Trump issues the following tweet tomorrow morning:

"Dems should have known better than to nominate an old hag with a chunky ass. #MAGA"

Reportable event or not?

I suspect that there would be little debate about the answer to this question if even 30% of the regular posters in this thread were women.

This is what I was ultimately getting at but we disagree on how to accomplish that which is fine as long as we share a common goal.

In what respect was my question unfair? I was completely transparent about why I was asking the question. I wasn't trying to trick you.

100% meaningless and not reportable. Which part is news? That he insults someone who ran for president last year and currently has no political role or that he is a misogynist?

It's London.

Would you have felt the same way about statements by George Wallace in 1964 that were demeaning to African Americans? Old news. Nothing to see here. Let's stick to the real issues.

Ah. Cars are on the left, but it looks like it could be a one way street. I can't see where the steering wheels are. But....the people are keeping to the left on the sidewalk.

Not sure if serious.

There's no etiquette here for which side of the pavement people should walk on, but on escalators people stand on the right and overtake on the left, the opposite of how we drive. I know, I know.

The notion that we talking about tweets are part of the problem is pretty silly. If trivial idiots never got any attention, then yes, Trump would not have become POTUS. But, if you want to run the Universe twice, once like it has been and once where you don't allow trivial idiots to get any attention, then a lot besides Trump is going to change and it could easily be one of those Twilight Zones where you end up regretting your wish.

Had he written 30,000+ articles on the topic I would argue the 30,001st one is no longer news. This is how many tweets Trump has made nearly all which contain the same message.

He is a racist, misogynist and xenophobe. None of this is news anymore.

The lost value of an unfiled story on policy is FAR outweighed by reporting on his 30,001st demonstration of these qualities.

Was serious. And surprised. Walking, escalator and all related etiquette in the US is right-sided and I figured over there it'd be left-sided. I spent a few weeks there a long time ago and don't recall or didn't notice.

yes?
it is pretty much the content of your posts here for the last 2 months (prolly more but lets say its recent),and lot of posters have pointed out that you were looping the same ramblings every post.
It seems everyone has a breaking points and einbert reached his recentely too.

I dont blame you tho.

Yes I definitely was a huge part of the problem. We all fell for it. Does that mean we should continue doing so?

The problem is we have so short attention spans that tweets get coverage but policy won't because explaining takes more than 10 seconds. Yes the media blows, but we're the goddamn problem and that'll never be fixed. It'll just get worse as everyone dumps written journalism for video snippets. Old days everyone owned encyclopedias and actually learned **** when they got bored; now we just sit in front of a screen and watch stupid ****.

Yes, if the media cared about hurting trump at all, they'd talk about things he's doing to hurt americans more and tweeting or russia less but they won't; they dgaf. Entertainment and sensationalism sells, information doesn't. It's that simple.

I guess the fact that streets and roads tend to be narrow because they're old makes crossing roads at the pedestrian's place of choosing quite feasible/advantageous, and has obviated the need for directional streams of pavement traffic.

Then there's the historic etiquette to consider of gentlemen taking the road side of the pavement to protect a woman from water kicked up by road traffic (I still find myself doing this instinctively).

And probably other reasons I'm not aware of.

It does have the drawback of people frequently bumping into each other that you need a strategy to deal with in more aggressive parts of town, eg the City. Mine is to take the road side of the pavement where at all possible, and stare diagonally across the street.

He also has crazy ideas abouts immigration, trade, abortion rights, health care, taxes, and a million other things, all of which are well documented and none of which are breaking news. Should we ignore statements by trump on those topics as well, at least insofar as they are consistent with his earlier statements?

Yes until they become some kind of actual policy. He lies and makes threats all the time and nothing ever comes of it. His party is not taking direction from him so what the values in covering them?

The premise of your question assumes this is a standard presidency where the President is driving policy and helping form the direction of public debate. It's not and he's not.

Can you think of an example where one of his tweets drove policy?

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cabl...q2-1202479416/

Another example would be Colbert overtaking Fallon

People can't get enough of it