WaPo - Why Trump gets more hype out of 1,000 jobs than Obama does out of 16 million
Trump is what happens when you have a President who is truly not interested in truth or the well-being of Americans, and is willing to shamelessly use your office to pursue personal economic benefits. For example, paying companies a ransom in tax cuts to save only a portion of the jobs being shipped to Mexico is horrible policy. Yet, Trump is only in it for the headlines. This is Trump University on a massive scale. Go on tours around the country, celebrate small scale deals, while Congress and his administration gut the ACA, Medicare, sell out to Russia, cut back on public education, and roll back reproductive rights.
Meanwhile, the corporate media chases Trump around in pursuit of good theater and ratings while ignoring the reality faced my millions of Americans. It worked during the election, so expect more of the same during the next four years. Finally, to the extent that Trump actually gets real coverage, Trump will just attacked the media as being dishonest.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-trump-gets-more-hype-out-of-1000-jobs-than-obama-does-out-of-16-million/ar-AAl40OE?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=UE01DHP
Cheering crowds greeted Trump during his victory lap through the Rust Belt this week following the announcement that the nation’s new negotiator-in-chief had struck a deal with heating and air conditioner manufacturer Carrier to keep a factory in Indiana from moving to Mexico. The agreement affected roughly 1,000 jobs and provided Trump the opportunity to deliver on a powerful campaign promise even before taking office.
The plant is just a sliver compared with the nearly 16 million new jobs generated under Obama as he guided the country out of the worst economic crisis since the Depression. But Obama’s success came in fits and starts, illustrated by graphs and pie charts, driven by the philosophy that strengthening the economy required comprehensive new policies.
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“I think what he did in Indiana . . . was good theater,” said David Axelrod, head of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and a former senior adviser to Obama. “From an optics standpoint, he profited from it.”
Trump will enter the Oval Office with a significant advantage over his predecessor. New government data released Friday showed that the national unemployment rate dropped to 4.6 percent last month, the lowest level since President George W. Bush sat in the White House in 2007. The economy added 178,000 jobs, extending the longest streak of monthly job growth on record.
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New shiny thing! New shiny thing! New shiny thing!
Media love big new shiny things that have lots of new angles to cover and analyze and talk and talk and talk about endlessly because they can't stop talking. And if they can hire a few talkers who love to talk endlessly they don't have to hire a staff of real reporters to cover actual news around the world--and more of the big bucks from constant advertising can go into the CEO's pocket! 
