[Magdalen] The Media.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Ginga, I didn't know the document had been released to the public. Where did you find it?

> On Jan 12, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I believe a great deal of the US future and credibility rests on the
> shoulders of truth tellingm-media in all forms.  My prayer for those who
> set out to do truthful reporting is that their bosses and they, themselves,
> will be able to choose truth over sensationalism and ratings.  I also pray
> that some of the more centrist media can avoid 'reframing' Trump's plans
> going forward with good intentions.
> 
> I do not trust Trump at all.  He only knows how to serve himself.  That is
> narcissism in action.  And, what in God's name is the Russian, Putin thing.
> 
> I am presently reading the 35 page document.  I believe much of it.
> 
> God have mercy on the USA.
> Ginga
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:48 AM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Not to mention the hugely ironic spectacle of the King of Fake News, Mr
>> One-Lie-Every-50-seconds, being apoplectic as he becomes a victim of same.
>> 
>> News is changing so fast now and is so globalized that it's hard to see how
>> anyone can do more damage to traditional or so-called "legacy" news
>> outlets, than current market forces and the social media are already doing.
>> 
>> I think that these days we're just so used to instant everything that we
>> can't tolerate the wait for verification. By the time the standard "two
>> independent sources of verification" are established, someone else has run
>> with the story.
>> 
>> I would have loved to hear what Jim G might have said about this lot!!
>> 
>> Sally D - fascinated and horrified in equal measure
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 at 9:27 AM James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> These folk seem very vicious.  Always angry.  When they're in the
>> minority,
>>> 
>>> nasty comThen they got a majority and a president on their side -- still
>>> 
>>> angry. Still vicious.  I get nervous when I think what it would take to
>>> 
>>> make them happy.  I wonder how many of them are so devoted to their cause
>>> 
>>> that they would cheer as all the liberals were packed into boxcars.  I
>> know
>>> 
>>> some are not that bad, of course, but the real question is, how many
>> would
>>> 
>>> brush the Constitution aside if they thought they could, and how quickly
>>> 
>>> would they start shooting those who were in their way. But then, I had
>>> 
>>> similar feelings with Bush ("Whoever is not for us is against us!!!") At
>>> 
>>> one point, Hitler just shot a list of anybody who was not on his side,
>> and
>>> 
>>> afterwards, there was nobody to tell him he could not do that. So, I'm
>>> 
>>> nervous.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Scaring the sh*t out of the media is an essential part of this. If we
>>> 
>>> assume the man's not quite as dumb as we wanted to think, maybe this is
>> all
>>> 
>>> a thought out strategy to hijack the country.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> And I thought I would just live out my days in quiet retirement. Who knew
>>> 
>>> we all would be pulled back into the fray just to keep the country from
>>> 
>>> going plumb to hell in a handbasket.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>>> 
>>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>>> 
>>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>> 
>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Meryl Streep alluded in her Gold Globes speech to something
>>> 
>>>> I thought apropos the Trump News Conference today.  Trump was  so
>>> 
>>>> hostile to the news media in general and CNN in particular
>>> 
>>>> when he suggested the media were behaving as though they were
>>> 
>>>> in Nazi Germany.  I was stunned. at how vicious he was.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I pray the media can stand firm over the next four years to get us
>>> 
>>>> through the Trump administration.  The media may be our last  great
>> hope.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> David S.
>>> 
>>