The real reason corporate media won't cover Trump's attacks on democracy

[MLAA]

This article calls out, no shouts out, what many of us here have been saying for sometime.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/the-real-reason-corporate-media-won-t-cover/

[BoRaGard]

1. clickbait

you can read the tease. Then no pay, no play.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. It's from Rawstory, which steals all its content from real news sources and presents it as its own work.

I back away from every post that links to Rawstory.

[MLAA]

3. Any idea how to find the original article?

I’ve googled the author’s name, D Earl Stephens, and this article’s title and all that comes up is the RawStory link. Searching on his name alone doesn’t get me any further.

Thanks!

[Lonestarblue]

4. Can't read it anyway because it's behind a paywall,

[MLAA]

10. Thanks for the background, can you help me find the original article so I can see where it was taken from?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Take about ten, fifteen words from RS's version and Google them.

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That should do it. And good afternoon.

[MLAA]

13. Thanks for the tip, no luck.

I searched on the following excerpt and only got the Raw Story article. Since the author credited is the retired editor of Star and Stripes and a writer would it not be possible he wrote the article for RawStory?


Aside from platforming maniacal, caustic headlines topping spurious content like the one above (which I promise to get to in a minute), this newspaper’s inability to

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. Could be. I don't know. Ther's a first time for everything. NT

[Mme. Defarge]

5. I was able to access the article in reader view.

[ret5hd]

6. i will give everyone the conclusion:

money.

trump is good for their bottom line.

saved you the click and aggravation. you’re welcome.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. But, He's Not

The trendlines for revenue & profit for nearly all the major news organizations show correlation to time, only.
Aside from a 60 day bump in mid 2016, they don't make more money because of TFG.
Now, some in media management may believe that, but that requires ignoring their own financial statements.
Either that, or they support lower taxes because they all have 7 or 8 figure salaries.
But, the notion that he's good for their companies' bottom line is provably false.
Content churn seems to be a better explanation but they'd never admit that.

[MLAA]

15. I think the personal greed effect of the CEO / Top tier execs may be the primary motivation.

[ret5hd]

16. i'm just relaying the conclusion of the essay in question.

the essay that drug me thru 20 or so paragraphs to finally deliver the information promised in the headline.

therefore, i saved everyone else a lot of time.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. No Confusion

I was commenting on the opinion that he's "good for business", not on your post.
I guess I'm criticizing the author for a superficial conclusion not in evidence.

[MLAA]

21. Thank you for the clarification, I appreciate it.

[irisblue]

7. Bump original article- Trump can win on character, NYT & Rich Lowery of the National Review wrote it

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/opinion/advice-for-trump-win.html


snip-"Presidential races are won and lost on character as much as the issues, and often the issues are proxies for character. Not character in the sense of a candidate’s personal life but the attributes that play into the question of whether someone is suited to the presidency — is he or she qualified, trustworthy and strong, and does he or she care about average Americans?

Presidential races, in this sense, are deeply personal; they usually involve disqualifying the opposing candidate, rather than convincing voters that his or her platform is wrongheaded."



snip-"One of his talents as a communicator is sheer repetition, which, when he’s on to something that works, attains a certain power. Everyone knew in 2016 that he wanted to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it. It would be quite natural for him, if he settled on this approach, to call Ms. Harris “weak” 50 times a day."

Last paragraph of the oped

Mr. Trump has said he wants to do to his opponents what they are doing to him. At the end of the day, what they are undertaking is a focused, intelligently designed campaign to disqualify him. Responding in kind doesn’t mean lashing out in Truth Social posts but crafting a comprehensive anti-Harris argument that implicates, in turn, her unsuitability for the highest office in the land."

[bluesbassman]

8. Thanks for taking one for the team in reading that drivel.

Trump has never “crafted” anything comprehensive in his life. What a crock.

[MLAA]

9. This is a different article than the one I posted.

I was trying to find the original article on its original source (not on rawstory), since I’ve learned from an earlier reply that rawstory takes others’ original articles and posts them on their website.

[orthoclad]

17. I call it Flawed Story - very poor source.

[MLAA]

18. ...

This is what I found about the author.

D. Earl Stephens
D. Earl Stephens is a published author and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes

[orthoclad]

20. If Flawed Story had integrity

they would give the source of the material they scavenged from the internet.

Years ago, they actually had reporters covering some stories, but I guess that was too expensive.

It's a bad sign when finding the source is so difficult.