NYTimes, CNN and Politico banned from press briefing today. Echos of 1939. Way to go all you Trump voters.
And so it begins....
by ctrwtf 45 Replies latest members politics
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littlerockguy
FAKE NEWS NETWORKS
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ctrwtf
Seriously? CNN and NYT? You're joking right?
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Finkelstein
Mein Kampf
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Finkelstein
WASHINGTON — Journalists from The New York Times and two other news organizations were prohibited from attending a briefing by President Trump’s press secretary on Friday, a highly unusual breach of relations between the White House and its press corps.
Reporters from The Times, CNN and Politico were not allowed to enter the West Wing office of the press secretary, Sean M. Spicer, for the scheduled briefing. Aides to Mr. Spicer allowed in reporters from only a handpicked group of news organizations that, the White House said, had been previously confirmed to attend.
Organizations allowed in included Breitbart News, the One America News Network and The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also attended.
Reporters from Time magazine and The Associated Press, who were set to be allowed in to the briefing, chose not to attend in protest of the White House’s actions.“Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties,” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, said in a statement. “We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.”
The White House Correspondents’ Association, which represents the press corps, quickly rebuked the White House’s actions.
“The W.H.C.A. board is protesting strongly against how today’s gaggle is being handled by the White House,” the association president, Jeff Mason, said in a statement. “We encourage the organizations that were allowed in to share the material with others in the press corps who were not. The board will be discussing this further with White House staff.”
The White House move came hours after Mr. Trump delivered a slashing broadside against the news media in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Hecce
This is no good, bad sign.
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Giordano
Sorry Trumpets but this is the same guy who reinvented himself as John Barron and/or John Miller...... he then posed as Mr. Trump's 'public relations man' so he could plant stories in the tabloids about who he was dating and how successful he was.
Trump has also called for an end to the use of anonymous sources along with banning some news services
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redvip2000
nothing to see here....
For the Trumpian drones, this will be excusable and normal as well.
The more I think of this, the more it looks like how JWs react to the facts about their own organization. I often scratch my head and wonder how any rational person can willfully ignore such blatant flaws only to support their tribe.
This is not much different.
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