Just Saying | Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam can use a page from Donald Trump’s playbook to handle hostile media
- Yonden Lhatoo says the chief executive must learn to give as good as she gets from malicious journalists as she fights a losing propaganda war with her many detractors
“Why is this a global competition when, every day, Americans are still losing their lives?” asked the reporter, a Chinese-born US citizen.
“They’re losing their lives everywhere in the world,” was Trump’s reply to that “nasty” question. “And maybe that’s a question you should ask China. Don’t ask me, ask China that question, OK?”
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Was that racist? Does Trump have a particular problem with female journalists? Even more so if they’re not Caucasian? He’ll keep denying all of it until the cows come home, but what matters is the confrontational strategy he has adopted to counter a predominantly hostile media. It makes sense in that he can never win them over, so he might as well maintain his narrative by riding roughshod over them. His supporters love him all the more for it.