[Magdalen] The Media.

[Eleanor Braun]

Grace:  Buzzfeed published the document here:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

As Buzzfeed says, these are allegations, and not verified.

Eleanor

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >>>
> >>
>