TRUMPED: Donald Has Been Given More Than $2 Billion in Free Media
Who's the genius now, network news?
Remember all that noise about Donald Trump not taking a single dollar from donors so he wouldn’t be affected or swayed by lobbyists or anyone else?
No SuperPAC. No $1,000-per-plate dinners. No glad-handing with people who don’t care about the process. Bupkis.
That may have been a mastermind idea because a study conducted by The New York Times using mediaQuant and SMG Delta data offers evidence that the American news media has given Trump’s campaign a gift that not even a mother could provide — $2 billion in free media.
It’s a cocktail teeming with vitriol and angst, a splash of non-sequitur logic, and chaser of spray tan.
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