{"id":18479,"date":"2016-12-09T20:14:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18479"},"modified":"2016-12-09T20:14:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:14:05","slug":"a-new-dump-trump-movement-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18479","title":{"rendered":"A new &#8216;dump Trump&#8217; movement surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trump-wins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17940\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trump-wins-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"trump-wins\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trump-wins-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trump-wins.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Media Matters, a left-leaning media watchdog organization, has raised a perfectly valid and intriguing question.<\/p>\n<p>How can a major news organization cover the president of the United States when the president has a &#8220;fiduciary&#8221; connection to the network?<\/p>\n<p>Media Matters is referring to Donald J. Trump&#8217;s continued association with an NBC-TV show, &#8220;The Apprentice,&#8221; where he will remain as an executive producer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action.mediamatters.org\/nbc_celebrity_apprentice_dump_trump\">http:\/\/action.mediamatters.org\/nbc_celebrity_apprentice_dump_trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC &#8212; and its affiliate networks, MNSBNC and CNBC &#8212; cannot possibly cover Trump with any degree of impartiality if Trump is getting paid by NBC for his relationship with &#8220;The Apprentice,&#8221; according to Media Matters. What if the network felt compelled to cover the president aggressively? How does that square with the possibility that negative news coverage would harm the president&#8217;s public standing and, by association, harm the TV show he serves as an executive producer.<\/p>\n<p>As Media Matters declared: &#8220;There is simply no way that citizens can trust the reporting of NBC News, CNBC, and MSNBC. Executives have put hard working reporters at these outlets in a completely untenable spot: <em>No<\/em> amount of disclosure is sufficient when the network is financially invested in the president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230; ? How about it, NBC?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Matters, a left-leaning media watchdog organization, has raised a perfectly valid and intriguing question. How can a major news organization cover the president of the United States when the president has a &#8220;fiduciary&#8221; connection to the network? Media Matters is referring to Donald J. Trump&#8217;s continued association with an NBC-TV show, &#8220;The Apprentice,&#8221; where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new &#8216;dump Trump&#8217; movement surfaces<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1424,2980,3235,6730],"class_list":["post-18479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-media-matters","tag-nbc","tag-the-apprentice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18481,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479\/revisions\/18481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}