reading Battling the Big Lie by Dan Pfeiffer
- pg 58 - Reagan abolishing the FCC fairness doctrine in ‘87, a reference is confirmed in Reagan's library - makes one wonder if it wouldn't have been vetoed, would it have stopped Alex Jones from attacking the Sandy Hook victims
- pg 67 - Trump: he is more likely to fire you than fight for you
- pg 79 - in the section of Bannon's "flood the media", the first Trump impeachment was caused by his threat of losing the military assistance necessary to ward off a Russian invasion - since the book was published in 2022-June, it seemed like there was fast work to update this section, curious what they use for that
- pg 86 - references Kate Steinle on MM - interesting how the name changes to Katie Steinle, depending on who references it
- pg 96 - LOOK UP Chris Lehane 332 page memo on conservative media from the 90s
- pg 101 _Similar to Trumping Democracy this links Trump to the Mercer family
- pg 121 - when discussing Roger Ailes early work on the Vietnam War: ''The goal was convincing people to watch "news" produced by Nixon aides without being able to differentiate it from "traditional news"
- pg 149 - Why Sinclair is a bigger threat than Fox News
- pg 238 - political communications is not public relations
- pg 254 - major media outlets are increasingly owned by the world's largest corporations and wealthiest individuals creates a conflict of interest... - recent news shows the same
- Action items:
- don't feed the trolls, screen shot instead
- be funny
- look for persuade-able
- Pg264 - how to rebuild media trust - one easy step to increase transparency is the reinstatement of the ombudsman and public editor roles. Example media companies: