NYT: Trump used that meeting with media as a political prop. (He wanted to appear nasty.)

[pnwmom]

So our getting excited about his blustering is what he wanted.

I had wondered why the NYPost, which has been supporting him, wrote an article that reflected badly on him. This explains it. We may think it makes him look bad, but his supporters love it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/business/media/trump-summons-tv-figures-for-private-meeting-and-lets-them-have-it.html

But after details of Mr. Trump’s hectoring leaked on Monday in The New York Post, it seemed the meeting was being used as a political prop, especially after Trump-friendly news outlets trumpeted the session as a take-no-prisoners move by a brave president-elect.

“Trump Slams Media Elite, Face to Face,” blared the Drudge Report. “Trump Eats Press,” wrote Breitbart News.

Those curious to hear more of what the president-elect had to say at the closed-door session were out of luck: Although more than two dozen prominent journalists attended, many declined to comment because they had agreed to keep the proceedings off the record.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Of course he's playing to his audience of knuckleheads.

But he may also have pissed off the folks who buy ink by the barrel.