Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com)

A confab of tech titans had a "productive" meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told CNBC, as Trump moved to mend fences with Silicon Valley before taking office in January. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Cisco and Tesla were among the C-suite executives in attendance, with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expected to get private briefings, according to transition staff. From the report: "We want you to keep going with the incredible innovation," Trump said. "There's no one like you in the world. ... anything we can do to help this go along, we're going to be there for you. You can call my people, call me -- it makes no difference -- we have no formal chain of command around here." At the meeting, Trump introduced billionaire Wilbur Ross, his Commerce secretary pick, and Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn, his choice for director of the National Economic Council. "They're going to do fair trade deals," Trump said. "They're going to make it easier for you to trade across borders, because there are a lot of restrictions, a lot of problems. If you have any ideas on that, that would be great."

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Re: heck of a choice

[ScentCone]

You mean all the Goldman Sachs executives he is putting in charge?

Please list "all of the" Goldman Sachs people that are going to be "in charge" of the country. Do you even understand how the government is structured?

They'll be getting paid to do what they want.

Do you understand that we're talking about the executive branch, here, and not somehow running the legislature? And if "getting paid" was what it was about, they'd never take a relatively low paying federal paycheck when they could make tens of times more simply being in the securities banking business in the first place. Anyway, back to your list of "all of the Goldman Sachs executives" that will be in charge. Do go on, please. GS has hundreds of executives. What will they all be doing, instead of working there, now? Some of them will have to settle for things like Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary for Communications at the Department of the Interior, working on farm reports and whatnot. Talk about "in charge!" Or by "all of the" do you mean "a couple of people that Trump trusts who have been working at GS until they agreed to step down to take these gigs?"

Well-educated journalists

[mi]

most journalists are well-educated

Citation needed. Desperately... Have they become better educated, on average, than they were 10 years ago? You did read the article I linked to, right? It says the percentage of Republicans in the profession declined over the decades — has there been an increase in education quality among journalists during the same period?

Republicans are more likely to value salary above all else

Can I ask for a citation again? Or should I accept the fact, that New York, Chicago, LA, and the Silicon Valley are such Republican strongholds, as evidence for your assertion?

Thus, Republicans are more likely to focus on other, more lucrative fields.

Point was — and remains — journalists are, overwhelmingly, Illiberal. Whatever the reason for it, the fact explains their bias in coverage in general and assigning blame in particular.