{"id":37020,"date":"2017-01-24T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37020"},"modified":"2017-01-23T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T20:30:26","slug":"in-fact-trumps-basically-gaslighting-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/in-fact-trumps-basically-gaslighting-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"“In fact, Trump\u2019s basically gaslighting [the press]”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds<\/a> on the relationship between Trump and the media:<\/p>\n

First, the thing to understand is that, as I\u2019ve said before, one of the changes going on with Trump generally is the renegotiation of various post-World War II institutional arrangements<\/em>. One of those is the institutional arrangement involving the press and the White House. For decades, the press got special status because it was seen as both powerful, and institutionally responsible. (And, of course, allied with the Democrats who were mostly in charge of setting up those postwar institutional arrangements). Now those things have changed. If the press were powerful, it would have beaten Trump. If it were responsible, it wouldn\u2019t be running away with fake news<\/a> whenever it sees a chance to run something damaging to Trump. And, of course, there\u2019s no alliance between Trump and the media, as there was with Obama.<\/p>\n

So things will change. The press\u2019s \u201cinsider\u201d status \u2014 which it cherishes \u2014 is going to fade. (This is producing waves of status anxiety<\/a>, as are many other Trump-induced institutional changes). And, having abandoned<\/a>, quite openly<\/a>, any pretense of objectivity and neutrality in the election, the press is going to be treated as an enemy by the Trump Administration until further notice.<\/p>\n

In fact, Trump\u2019s basically gaslighting them. Knowing how much they hate him, he\u2019s constantly provoking them to go over the top. Sean Spicer\u2019s crowd-size remarks are all about making them seem petty and negative. (And, possibly, teeing up crowd-size comparisons at next week\u2019s March For Life, which the press normally ignores but which Trump will probably force them to cover).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds on the relationship between Trump and the media: First, the thing to understand is that, as I\u2019ve said before, one of the changes going on with Trump generally is the renegotiation of various post-World War II institutional arrangements. One of those is the institutional arrangement involving the press and the White House. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[1037,213,101],"class_list":["post-37020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donaldtrump","tag-newspapers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9D6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37021,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020\/revisions\/37021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}