Steve Bannon should take his three bucket philosophy to a country that wants and needs a Lenin like Russian revolution, perhaps Brazil, Argentina, or Columbia.
Leninist revolutionary ideas ARE SOCIALIST, and while I like socialism, Americans do not, and Bannon's "revolution" will fail in North America.
Bottom line: Steve, just leave America, please.
"No, Steve Bannon, the Media Won’t “Keep Its Mouth Shut”"
The war between journalists and the White House is only just beginning. In fact, Trump’s chief strategist is counting on it.(A version of this column originally appeared on Poynter.org.)
by James Warren, Chief Media Writer, Poynter.org
January 27, 2017 9:30 am
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/no-steve-bannon-the-media-wont-keep-its-mouth-shut
"Shortly after Steve Bannon, President Trump's strategic and cultural Svengali, called the American press the "opposition party," the opposition calmly sat on a Chicago stage and suggested the best path forward.Their response? Reasoned and tough-minded indifference. It’s a de facto prescription that might drive the new tweeter-in-chief and his sledgehammer-wielding sycophants daffy in their search for a Jacksonian revival.
By rich coincidence, the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics Thursday evening offered an A-list group to mull how to cover Trump: CNN boss Jeff Zucker, CBS News chief David Rhodes, Nieman Foundation leader Ann Marie Lipinski and moderator-Yahoo News columnist Matt Bai. (Institute of Politics)"
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"It was a meaty hour — nobody's keeping their "mouth shut," as Bannon "demanded" — with a variety of inside-journalism topics broached. Those included the need to be judicious in over-covering pedestrian White House briefings (a point made by Rhodes); the positive side of Trump-inspired heightened ratings and newspaper readership (Zucker); the perils of now feverishly "doubling down" on White House coverage at the expense of many other important matters (Lipinski); and the potential limits of fact-checking's influence (Bai and Rhodes).
For sure, Bannon's red-meat target audience would have been unmoved by these declarations of good intentions by representatives of the evil mainstream media. But it remained reassuring to listen to reasoned dialogue, given the premeditated Trump histrionics and fabrications (or "sincere beliefs," as his surrogates, like Press Secretary Sean Spicer, would have it).
In the end, Lipinski reminded that most presidents dislike the press (she'd just been reading about Thomas Jefferson's disdain). And she underscored to students that journalism is a great responsibility, privilege and calling."
