Who Owns The Evil Media Trump Hates? And How Does Kellyanne Conway Do That?

Sometimes post ideas gestate as I try to gather data and/or just get the time to do them right.  Two Trump related posts have been sitting around.

The first was in response to one of Trump's tirades about the biased media.

The second was a post that would look line by line at what Kellyanne Conway says to figure out exactly what and how she does that. Fortunately, someone else has already done that and you can see it at the bottom of this post.

1.   Trump's anti media campaign

As with all his tweets, Trump uses a disparaging descriptor before the person or organization name he's talking about.  Here, it's 'fake news' media.

The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017

Who exactly is this evil media Trump complains about.  It seemed pretty clear that they are all corporations or very rich individuals.  But maybe I was wrong.  (I wasn't.)

I thought it would be useful to look at the top 20 newspapers in the US and see who owns them, because, it's the owners who ultimately matter.  And if they are conservatives and/or billionaires, it tells you something about Trump's charges.  (OK, I understand that Trump, on good days, has a nugget of truth in each panful of tweet, and that tracking down his lies is a trap for the media.  Instead of dealing with real news, they are off proving that Trump is a habitual liar which everyone except Trump seems to acknowledge.)

Rank	Paper	Owned By	Comment
1	USA Today	Gannett	Largest US newspaper publisher by total daily circulation
2	Wall Street Journal	Rupert Murdoch	An Australian description and a 2008 Vanity Fair, personal bio with names you'll recognize
3	New York Times	New York Times Company	Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim is biggest NYT investor*
4	Los Angeles Times	Tronc (Tribune Publishing)
5	The Washington Post	Jeff Bezos	Billionaire, Founder of Amazon
6	Chicago Tribune	Tribune Publishing
7	New York Daily	Mortimer Zuckerman
8	The Dallas Morning News	A.H. Belo Corp	CEO Jim Moroney Board Vice Chairman and Belo Heir Robert Decherd
9	Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News	MediaNews Group	*
10	Philadelphia Inquirer	Philadelphia Media Network	PMN is owned by the community philanthropic Philadelphia Foundation.
11	Houston Chronicle	Hearst Corporation
12	Detroit News/Free Press	MediaNews Group/Gannett
13	Boston Globe	John W. Henry	Also owns the Red Sox.
14	(Long Island) Newsday	Dolan Family and Altice
15	Minneapolis Star Tribune	Glen Taylor	Minnesota billionaire
16	New York Post	Rupert Murdoch
17	Atlanta Journal- Constitution	Cox Enterprises
18	The Newark Star- Ledger	Advance Publications	Also own Vogue, New Yorker, and Vanity Fair
19	San Francisco Chronicle	Hearst Corp
20	The Arizona Republic	Gannett

*Notes:
The intricacies here are fairly new to me.  But there were some interesting notes here and there.
Wikipedia noted that as the largest shareholder in the NY Times he
They also noted that MediaNewsGroup borrowed money from the Gates Foundation, mainly to buy papers in the San Jose and San Francisco areas.  Is that a coincidence or does Seattle-based Gates get something from this leverage in Silicon Valley?  They also noted that Hearst owns 31% of MediaNewsGroup outside the San Francisco area.
More than one-third of the top 20 are owned by billionaires:  Minneapolis Star, Washington Post, Newsday,  New York Daily, New York Post, Newark Star Ledger, and the Wall Street Journal.

Trump has more in common with the owners and CEOs of the newspapers than he has with the average American.  While economic class is just one factor, it's important.  At the very least, these people understand the world Trump lives in and can judge him as a peer.  If they oppose him, that says a lot.  It's not because they are unfamiliar with the economic world he lives in.

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2.  How Does Kellyanne Conway Do That?

The second was an attempt to transcribe the Kellyanne Conway interview with Chris Cuomo about Russian hacking, which you can see here.  Like others, I'm astounded by how she is able to not answer questions.  I thought if I wrote out the transcript, I could see how she does it.  And from the few minutes I did write down, I saw some patterns.
1.  Take a word or two from the questions and use them to attack someone else.
2.  Quibble about words
3.  Challenge the assumptions in the question

I never got it done and now someone - Carlos Mazo - has done it much better than I would have anyway. This is the content I would have eventually gotten to.

 I'd add one more conclusion about what Kellyanne Conway does: She eats up airtime so that nothing substantive can be discussed. She pollutes the public airways so everything is doubted. Nasty, democracy destroying work.