| Oh, to be a fly on that wall... |
 [NYPost] President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post.
"It was like a f‐ing firing squad," said one source.
"Trump started with Jeff Zucker and said I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed….
"The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down," the source added.
Not unlike some of the ambushes they have laid out for previous Republicans.
A second source confirmed the encounter.
"The meeting took place in a big board room and there were about 30 or 40 people, including the big news anchors from all the networks…," the source said.
"Trump kept saying, ‘We're in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong. He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was network of liars.
He ain't wrong
"Trump didn't say Katy Tur by name, but talked about an NBC female correspondent who got it wrong, then he referred to a horrible network correspondent who cried when Hillary lost who hosted a debate – which was Martha Raddatz who was also in the room.
"Gayle did not stand up, but asked some question, ‘How do you propose we the media work with you?' Chuck Todd asked some pretty pointed questions. David Muir asked how are you going to cope living in DC while your family is in NYC? It was a horrible meeting"
How to get the Democratic operatives media to work with him? You don't. You keep them at arm's length and let them twist on the rope they made for themselves.
The meeting was off the record, meaning the participants agreed not to talk about the substance of the conversations.
Have to agree with the Donald: the press has gotten out of control and it has only itself to blame. It's become the mouthpiece of the DNC, or as Glenn Reynolds likes to say, "Democratic operatives with bylines." As Kurt Schlichter wrote today, the Donald doesn't give a damn when the media goes after him, and that makes him immune to media-inspired outrage.
So the media is being given notice: get back to reasonably bilateral, bipartisan, more-or-less even-handed coverage, or you'll end up with the public relations version of waterboarding. |
The hour-long powwow included top execs from network and cable news channels. Among the attendees were NBC's Deborah Turness, Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, ABC's James Goldston, George Stephanopoulos, David Muir and Martha Raddatz, CBS' Norah O'Donnell John Dickerson, Charlie Rose, Christopher Isham and Gayle King, Fox News' Bill Shine, Jack Abernethy, Jay Wallace, Suzanne Scott, MSNBC's Phil Griffin and CNN's Jeff Zucker and Erin Burnett.
All of which were triggered, had to run to their safe space and blankies and teddy bears. 
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