{"id":83102,"date":"2015-12-14T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=83102&preview_id=83102"},"modified":"2015-12-09T11:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:30:44","slug":"the-huffington-post-declares-war-on-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/the-huffington-post-declares-war-on-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The Huffington Post Declares War on Donald Trump \u2013 Could This Be a PR Win?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Huffington Post has declared war on presidential hopeful Donald Trump following his recent comments about restricting access to the US based on religion. Prior to his comments, The Huffington Post featured coverage of Trump\u2019s presidential campaign in the entertainment section of its website. They now vow to abandon any journalistic impartiality and call Trump out as they see fit.<\/p>\n

In an article entitled A Note on Trump: We Are No Longer Entertained,<\/a> Arianna Huffington states: \u201cSo if Trump’s words and actions are racist, we’ll call them racist. If they’re sexist, we’ll call them sexist. We won’t shrink from the truth or be distracted by the showmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s reaction<\/a> to this (and other statements of outrage) was typical: \u201cI don\u2019t care!\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing \u2013 in an age where social media allows celebrities and public figures like Trump to bypass the media and reach a massive audience (@realdonaldtrump currently has 5.14 million followers on Twitter) will the Huffington Post\u2019s coverage (no matter how negative) simply feed Trump\u2019s output?<\/p>\n

Trump (who hosts the US version of the TV show The Apprentice) need look no further than former UK Apprentice \u201cstar\u201d Katie Hopkins to know that entire careers can be built on the back of negative press. And we should never forget, there are many people who agree (or will be swayed to agree) with Donald Trump no matter how much scorn the press throws at him.<\/p>\n

As Oscar Wilde once said: \u201cThere is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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