in charge of a fringe right wing web site not just in charge of his campaign but in the oval office at his chief strategist. that continues to matter in terms of how they operate. they are using supermarket tabloids that have huge distribution. and their covers are in every grocery store in america whether or not you buy them. they are using this thing against their political enemi and to promote their political selves. and tonight, as we get ready to talk to a couple of great journalists here on this show, people who have meant a lot to me in my own career, people who outlasted all sorts of ups and downs in this business we re in, i just want to stick a pin in this particular dynamic with this new administration because i think it s worth keeping in mind as a lens, as a way of focusing on what s about to happen. next week we are about to get a real charge in terms of the aggressive and sometimes weird ways this new administration manages media. on tuesday night next week you ve heard
criminal! that was the national enquirer s election eve special. that s what they put in supermarke across the country as people are going to vote. you get a sense of how they tweeted clinton. but it was also at the same time this. did you know donald trump did release his tax returns? he did because the national enquirer has them. the documents america has been waiting to see. you might have heard that donald trump didn t release his tax returns but that s just a hillary ugly smear campaign that has now fallen apart because the national enquirer is publishing his tax returns. and incidentally he really is worth $10 billion. donald trump tax returns, the national enquirer s world exclusives. supermarket tabloids being weird or outrageous or fantastically false is, you know, it s like reporting the sun rises in the east. i know. but with the national enquirer specifically, there s
politician relationship with the media. president obama talked to comedians, right? and talked to youtube stars. president george w. bush and his dad both did lots and lots of really right wing talk radio. go back to the fireside chats of fdr, you will find presidents either trying to reach people through non-traditional elements of the media or find ways around the media in a way that best suits their purposes as president. but there is going to be something different and it s not just the tweeting. there s old school elements to the very different media approach the trump administration is taking and it s important in terms of thinking abo how they re going to wield power and get their way. he did put a guy most recently in charge of a fringe right wing web site not just in charge of his campaign but in the oval office at his chief strategist. that continues to matter in terms of how they operate. they are using supermarket tabloids that have huge distribution. and their covers are i
president george w. bush and his dad both did lots and lots of really right wing talk radio. go back to the fireside chats of fdr, you will find presidents either trying to reach people through non-traditional elements of the media or find ways around the media in a way that best suits their purposes as president. but there is going to be something different and it s not just the tweeting. there s old school elements to the very different media approach the trump administration is taking and it s important in terms of thinking about how they re going to wield power and get their way. he did put a guy most recently in charge of a fringe right wing web site not just in charge of his campaign but in the oval office at his chief strategist. that continues to matter in terms of how they operate. they are using supermarket tabloids that have huge distribution. and their covers are in every grocery store in america whether or not you buy them. they are using this thing against their political
their supermarket tabloids, we sneer at their leisure activities. the ironic part is where it resides, a tiny apartment on the upper west side. greg? what do you think? krugman is high if he thinks that liberals don t look down on conservatives, right? well, he says he doesn t, he says he is a man of the people in his ivory tower. look, of course conservatives look down on people, just like some of them look down on liberals. krugman is silly if he doesn t see that. the other guy is right. do conservatives really look down on liberals or look up at them shaking their fist? that is a good question, i think they look down maybe, because the republicans are in charge. you have given me a lot to think about. it is not just a city country thing, there are a lot of transplants here, we live among a lot of rural people here in