Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Reply #1694 –
Trump may be a Fwit but he's not an idiot, or at least someone on his team isn't an idiot.
Currently the Trump camp is playing the media with one of the oldest tricks in the book, and it's the fault of blokes like Murdoch that Trump can get away with it.
Often in the leadup to an election you could discredit someone by leaking a story, then after it gains traction you also deliver or leak the proof that the story was false. The trick is doing so at arms length so you appear like the innocent 3rd party, and it makes other claims about you seem less truthful. It sort of gives you a short term boost in credibility by discrediting your enemy who you associate with the leak. But as a tactic it was used sparsely because the journalists were not idiots you could fool twice in a short period of time. Use the tactic too often and it bites you on the ar5e.
Now, after years of cuts, syndication and redundancies, media organisations are full of bloggers instead of journalists. This is Murdoch's fault, he's removed journalists and replaced them with syndicated bloggers as a profit making exercise.
But now the Trump camp can take full advantage of this, they have moved in full gear on a campaign designed to discredit their true enemy, the people that helped him get elected, the main stream media.
So what the Trump camp is doing is becoming the source of the leak and the proof that it's false. He has an almost unlimited resource of bloggers who are more than willing to go mainstream with a breaking story that the Trump camp leaks to them. After it gains some momentum Trumps camp turns out evidence that the story was false, associates it with false news from his enemies, and the blogger and the media organisation lose credibility in the public eye.
If he can't make himself smell sweet, he'll make his opponents stink it up!
A proper race to the bottom of the barrel!