Admittedly, no shocker to most of us
The following has been clearly true to most of us.But to the easily duped, it may come with some surprise I suppose.
Today in the Huffington Post;
In response to:
‘60 Minutes’ Reporter Reveals Trump’s Chilling Reason For Slamming The Press
Lesley Stahl said Trump admitted that he attacks journalists so “no one will believe” them.
Veteran CBS journalist Lesley Stahl told a story about President Donald Trump that likely surprised few
of her media colleagues at the Deadline Club Awards Dinner in New York on Monday evening.
According to Stahl, Trump told her that he continually “discredits” and “demeans” the press
for a very specific reason: to sow uncertainty about the media so that “no one will believe” negative stories about him.
The “60 Minutes” reporter recalled what happened when she and her boss met with the then president-elect
at Trump Tower after he eked out a surprise win in late 2016. Trump eventually started bashing the press in front of them.
“I said, ‘You know, that is getting tired. Why are you doing this? You’re doing it over and over.
It’s boring and it’s time to end that,’” Stahl recounted in a talk with Judy Woodruff of “PBS Newshour”
at the Deadline Club event, which honors excellence in journalism.
“And he said, ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write
negative stories about me, no one will believe you,’” she continued.
Stahl emphasized her amazement: “He said that.”
‘60 Minutes’ Reporter Reveals Trump’s Chilling Reason For Slamming The Press
Lesley Stahl said Trump admitted that he attacks journalists so “no one will believe” them.
Veteran CBS journalist Lesley Stahl told a story about President Donald Trump that likely surprised few
of her media colleagues at the Deadline Club Awards Dinner in New York on Monday evening.
According to Stahl, Trump told her that he continually “discredits” and “demeans” the press
for a very specific reason: to sow uncertainty about the media so that “no one will believe” negative stories about him.
The “60 Minutes” reporter recalled what happened when she and her boss met with the then president-elect
at Trump Tower after he eked out a surprise win in late 2016. Trump eventually started bashing the press in front of them.
“I said, ‘You know, that is getting tired. Why are you doing this? You’re doing it over and over.
It’s boring and it’s time to end that,’” Stahl recounted in a talk with Judy Woodruff of “PBS Newshour”
at the Deadline Club event, which honors excellence in journalism.
“And he said, ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write
negative stories about me, no one will believe you,’” she continued.
Stahl emphasized her amazement: “He said that.”
Comments (18)
Agreed
No shock there........
mic - That's true.
miw - Thanks for posting the less than a dozen lies or misleading by journalists in your lifetime.
However, Trump can and has dished out more lies than that in one day.
In FACT, only 4% of what he says is actually true, the lowest rate of ANY presidential candidate,
even worse than "Lying Ted".
Many cannot accept the fact Trump lies...lol...
If you live in New York...you have background knowledge...other areas...not so lucky...
Let's separate opinion pieces and the people reporting the news without bias...that would help for starters..,
Trump should stop tweeting...and concentrate on issues athat hand...not being thin skinned...like a dictator...lol...
Trump did not write 'The Art of the Deal' book.
A ghost writer, Tony Schwartz, did. They just used Trump's name as a marketing tool.
That writer now feels horrible, because he feels partly responsible for misleading people
into thinking that Trump is more normal than he is.
Daniel Dager & Christina Carrafiell Oct 04, 2017
Staff Reporters
In 1987, Tony Schwartz ghost wrote “The Art of the Deal,” a book that ushered then-real estate mogul President Donald Trump into the national spotlight. Today, Schwartz has few kind words for the man he helped make famous.
“Trump is the same person at 70 that he was at seven,” Schwartz said. “He never managed to develop the qualities that most people do in the natural course of growing up.”
Schwartz spoke about “The Art of the Deal” and his relationship with Trump at a Monday event co-hosted by Yale’s Shabtai Society and the Yale Journalism Initiative in Linsly-Chittenden Hall. Throughout the talk, Schwartz offered psychological explanations for the behavior and actions of the president, whom he described as having “no conscience.” According to Schwartz, Trump grew up with an overbearing and demanding father, which ultimately contributed to his “obsession” with winning in every facet of life.
Schwartz first met Trump when he was working as a reporter for the New York Post. At the time, Trump, a 30-year-old real estate developer, was in the process of kicking tenants out of one of his properties so that he could raise rent prices, and Schwartz covered the story. Schwartz said Trump wrote to him after reading the story, expressing his appreciation for being portrayed as a “tough guy.” According to Schwartz, Trump went so far as to frame the story and hang it on the wall of his office.
Years later, in 1986, Trump suggested that Schwartz write his autobiography, an endeavor Schwartz came to regret.
“I knew that writing a book with him would undermine my credibility and subject me to the legitimate charge of having sold out, a term virtually invented for what I was about to do,” Schwartz said.
Schwartz described the money he makes from “The Art of the Deal” as “blood money.” He said he donated $50,000 in royalties from the book to Puerto Rican hurricane relief efforts the same day as his talk at Yale.
While writing the book, Schwartz said, he “wrestled with how to tell stories that he knew contained inaccuracies.” Although he portrayed Trump as charming in his book, in reality he had begun to view him as a virtual “black hole.”
It's called investigative reporting.
This news source has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Peabody Award.