How should the mainstream media respond to WH's intimidation and "alternative facts"?

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There’s already a thread on how Orwellian the blatant lying of Trumps new press people are. The question for this thread is: **how should the media respond ? **

I don’t know what the endgame is for the gaslighters-in-chief. Yes, ideally Trump would want his 30% of fans to take their news solely from him. And from FOX. But even they know that that is hardly sustainable goal in these modern times. Eventually the Trump voters will want to watch something on a different channel, no? Even if it is just a re-run of one of their popular shows?

So, what would work? Some ideas below.

  1. Let’s all watch the most realistic Fox programs, so Fox feels that that is where the money is and adapts the programming ?

  2. Find a leftwing Milo Yannopolis; someone who looks and sounds like a Trump voter, someone they like to watch, but who balances their worldview in a subtle way?

  3. Boycott the WH press conferences all together? What would happen then?

  4. Found an alternative WH press conference? A place where journalists share their discoveries with each other? And divide and share the duties of researching the different long stories, instead of all jumping on the outrage du jour?
    "Okay guys! CNN will delve into the ongoing disappearance of the EPA. NBC, you people will delve into the behind the scenes power play around Tillerson. Report back next week and share the story with all of us. In the meantime, we leave just two junior reporters here at the WH press conference to note down what alternative fact Spicer wants to tell us this week, and we’ll photograph the room nicely to show how empty it is. And on the picture we’ll red-circle anyone paid to be there by the WH to cheer Spicer. Back here tomorrow same time ! "

  5. Should the press still attend the conferences, but instead of reporting them, report on them? Treat them as the smoke, not as the fire? “Today, the WH wanted us to focus on Betsy’s spelling errors in her tweets. But meanwhile, here are the policies some Cabinet member signed into action today, and here’s what they will mean to citizens”.

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Oops, missed this thread. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=816554

Mods, feel free to close and remove this one.

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Ignore the White House press conferences and Tweets and do in-depth investigative reporting using unnamed sources…I guess that would be #5.

Press conferences are pablum and tweets that everyone can read aren’t really news.

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The news media outlets could publish the truth, and nothing but the truth? That would help reestablish the LSM’s credibility.

The news media outlets could chose to provide their readers/viewers with the Who, What, Where, When, and Why of every story they produce, or publish.

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I’d just send some intern to record the administration’s press releases, and run them later along with the findings of a fact-check.

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You have it backwards…it’s the left wing mainstream media that does the lying and intimidation…like the Obama administration using the IRS to harass Tea Party members (who were labeled as racist and fascist because that’s all the left can do).

But I’m sure the left will resort to the violence they used after Trump won.

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