Frankly, if Trump is going to start punishing reporters for asking questions

[book_worm]

the media should stop covering his events: rallies, photo-ops and such.

[oberliner]

1. Problem is - he is good for ratings

Which is of paramount importance to the networks.

[unblock]

3. they always say that, but it doesn't explain everything.

that would justify not ignoring him, but it doesn't justify how they treat him in that coverage.

but why not run stories critical of him?

they made hillary into a ratings queen due to all the lies and scandals they manufactured around her.
they don't need to work as hard with donnie.

[oberliner]

10. MSNBC and CNN run a lot of stories critical of Trump

Don't you think?

[Brother Buzz]

4. They could still get the fine ratings if they played Yakety Sax Music with the video footage

Hell, they might even get a bounce in some markets. I'm just saying.

[oberliner]

11. Only if it was accompanied by Benny Hill reruns

Although I'm not sure that show would be considered kosher nowadays.

[unblock]

2. indeed, trying to act like a dictator should lead to *more* difficult questions.

the media's obsession with covering trump at all costs his seriously corrupted the media.

[Doreen]

6. "trying?" I thought he just is being a dictator.

[unblock]

7. he's only a dictator if he gets away with it.

so maybe you're right, i guess that remains to be seen....

[Doreen]

8. He is a dictator. He is just one who is still rising.

[unblock]

9. hopefully he's pretty much done with the rising part.

the we can go to the deposed part....

[Doreen]

12. I hope so also.

[Takket]

5. they should all pile on the same questions until he bans the whole lot of them

[smirkymonkey]

13. I agree. Their ratings would only suffer for a little while. He can't stand being ignored for long

Eventually, he'll start blabbing again and tell them everything they want to know (or at least lie about it). Ignoring him would be the worst thing they could do to him. He lives for being the center of all media attention, even from the media outlets that he claims to despise.

[left-of-center2012]

14. Fox will always be there