{"id":1714,"date":"2017-02-04T05:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:27","slug":"more-media-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/more-media-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"More Media Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the press briefing today on Whtiehouse.gov.<\/p>\n<p>The first half of the session took questions from local reporters via Skype.\u00a0 The questions were varied, and actual , you know, questions instead of carefully worded gotcha bombs we got from the Washington contingent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1715 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1.jpg\" alt=\"skypebriefPublication1\" width=\"700\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1.jpg 823w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1-768x374.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1-250x122.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Florida wanted to know about Cuba policy. Imagine.<\/p>\n<p>The local media made the Washington goons look like thugs and weasels.\u00a0 I understand they will be bringing in bloggers and such this way also.<\/p>\n<p>You should see it for yourself, you may make it a daily watch.<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant notch in attacking the media warfare arm of the Progressives. It creates splits in local versus national news , it splits new versus old media and it broadens the information space.<\/p>\n<p>One game the media has used is to focus on a single story and make their narrative to it last two to three days.\u00a0 All questions are about the same story, all shouted out, all headlines, all newscasts, all editorials.<\/p>\n<p>By broadening the media reach and forcing more stories out there every day, the single narrative loses it&#8217;s punch.<\/p>\n<p>Old Strategy- React to the Media\u00a0Narrative coverage and defend.<\/p>\n<p>New Strategy- Never Let There be Only One Story.<\/p>\n<p>This should be good.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1714\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1714\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the press briefing today on Whtiehouse.gov.<\/p>\n<p>The first half of the session took questions from local reporters via Skype.\u00a0 The questions were varied, and actual , you know, questions instead of carefully worded gotcha bombs we got from the Washington contingent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1715 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1.jpg\" alt=\"skypebriefPublication1\" width=\"700\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1.jpg 823w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1-768x374.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/skypebriefPublication1-250x122.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Florida wanted to know about Cuba policy. Imagine.<\/p>\n<p>The local media made the Washington goons look like thugs and weasels.\u00a0 I understand they will be bringing in bloggers and such this way also.<\/p>\n<p>You should see it for yourself, you may make it a daily watch.<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant notch in attacking the media warfare arm of the &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/more-media-matters\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}