MSM shouldn’t cover Trump’s tweets, forcing him to rely on media to communicate – CNN anchor
RT.com
28 Dec, 2016
US President-elect Donald Trump has largely ditched the “distorted” media, opting to communicate through Twitter rather than press conferences and interviews. But CNN anchor Don Lemon said the media facilitates that by choosing to cover his tweets.
The leader-in-waiting hasn’t held a press conference since winning the presidential election and regularly takes to Twitter to criticize the media landscape, using adjectives ranging from “crooked” to “dishonest.”
However, Trump’s choice to refrain from speaking to most news outlets, particularly left-leaning ones, is largely related to the industry’s decision to give his tweets media coverage, according to Lemon.
“Listen, I’m not a news executive. But if I were, I would say I would not cover his tweets,” Lemon said on-air on Tuesday.
Lemon said that if the media were to stop covering Trump’s tweets, he would be forced to hold a press conference because “he hates being ignored.”
Trump’s media bashing began long before he won his bid for the White House, with the billionaire often tweeting that the news industry was “rigging the election.”
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