Sean Spicer excluding media outlets from briefing (NYT, CNN, WAPO, Politico)

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What a bullshit way to avoid tough questions. Just make sure there's nobody in the room to ask them.

Post-truth all the way, Baby!
Just standard press pool coverage, it was OK for Obama, but now you get butt hurt over it. The difference? He excluded Fox and the right.
 

Jhhnn

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I consider few sources legitimate. Nowadays, I generally just listen to Mark Levin since the MSM and most other outlets are corrupt, and I prefer logic over slanted opinion in the knowledge I gain.

Mark Levin is a highly effective right wing talk radio hack who has been softening conservatives' brains for a very long while-

Levin is known for his frequent use of the pejorative "moron" and "puke" for people he opposes.[16][17][18] Hannity has nicknamed Mark Levin "The Great One".[19] Levin and Hannity remain frequent contributors to each other's programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Levin

Conservatives are so steeped in bullshit that they can't even smell the stuff at this point.

You're a victim.
 

Jhhnn

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Just standard press pool coverage, it was OK for Obama, but now you get butt hurt over it. The difference? He excluded Fox and the right.

Except it never actually happened. Even the most unfriendly sources acknowledge that to be true-

According to The New York Times: “Fox’s television news competitors refused to go along with a Treasury Department effort on Thursday [October 22, 2009] to exclude Fox from a round of interviews with the executive-pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg that was to be conducted with a ‘pool’ camera crew…”. Fox News Channel’s James Rosen reported this backlash forced the Obama administration to reconsider its position on the matter: “The Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV news network consulted and decided that none of them would interview Feinberg unless Fox was included, and the administration relented…,” reported Rosen. Ultimately, after other media representatives objected, Fox News Channel was allowed to participate in the interviews

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-...ite-house-attacked-excluded-fox-news-channel/

Trump did it anyway, excluding a lot more outlets than just Fox in the process.
 
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Except it never actually happened. Even the most unfriendly sources acknowledge that to be true-



http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-...ite-house-attacked-excluded-fox-news-channel/

Trump did it anyway, excluding a lot more outlets than just Fox in the process.
In pool reporting some outlets are always excluded, it's what makes it "pool reporting"


From your own story


However, despite this public position, internal Obama administration emails obtained by Judicial Watch provide evidence that FNC was specifically singled out for exclusion. According to one October 22, 2009, email exchange between Dag Vega, Director of Broadcast Media on the White House staff, to Jenni LeCompte, then-Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the Treasury Department, Vega informs LeCompte that “…we’d prefer if you skip Fox please.”



Regarding general anti-FNC bias within the Obama White House in an October 23, 2009, email exchange between Jennifer Psaki, Deputy White House Communications Director and LeCompte, Psaki writes, “I am putting some dead fish in the fox cubby – just cause”. In an email on the night of October 22, 2009, commenting on a report by Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier noting the exclusion of the network from the pool, Psaki writes to Compte and fellow White House colleagues, “…brett baier just did a stupid piece on it — but he is a lunatic”.



Deputy White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest bluntly described the White House’s position on Fox News Channel in an October 23, 2009, email to LeCompte:



“We’ve demonstrated our willingness and ability to exclude Fox News from significant interviews…”
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shortylickens

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This will quickly become the norm if the press does not now band together and demand equal and fair access by all. I have faith that the media will fight this off the right way (mass boycott).

I hope so.

But then the only access we'll have to Trump is Twitter. And that doesnt sit well with me either.
 

UglyCasanova

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I think this is absurd and dangerous by Trump and something we should all be against. I also think the "fake news" fiasco is something the left brought upon themselves by advocating for censorship when it fits their agenda.
 

UberNeuman

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I think this is absurd and dangerous by Trump and something we should all be against. I also think the "fake news" fiasco is something the left brought upon themselves by advocating for censorship when it fits their agenda.

It's always the wife's fault when hubby kicks her teeth in.
 

Jhhnn

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I think this is absurd and dangerous by Trump and something we should all be against. I also think the "fake news" fiasco is something the left brought upon themselves by advocating for censorship when it fits their agenda.

Because the Obama Admin unsuccessfully messed with Fox once back in 2009?

Victim blaming at its finest.
 
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I think this is absurd and dangerous by Trump and something we should all be against. I also think the "fake news" fiasco is something the left brought upon themselves by advocating for censorship when it fits their agenda.
The media only brought it upon itself by using the term "fake news". They should have used terms with less ambiguity, like calling the fake stories what they really were - hoaxes. I didn't see the big call for censorship in the media - more a concern on how to combat the rise of viral, directed misinformation campaigns propagated by both foreign entities and people looking to make a quick buck on the backs of rubes. Some people have become so partisan, they're willing to accept any absurd story if it helps "their side". There are some fine exhibits in this very thread.
 

VRAMdemon

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The particular media outlets that are being criticized and now shut out are the ones that don't pander to their views, who don't spoon-feed them stuff that they already agree with, and that actually expect them to think for themselves. Trumps people (now that he is in office and is showing his unvarnished self) are by definition not interested in hearing objective reporting that conflicts with their own pre-conceptions.

Not that hard to understand, really.

What I don't understand is why all reputable news organizations are not boycotting these press briefings until this ban is rescinded. I am picturing a day when Trump wants to hold a press conference to announce he is taking over day to day control of his businesses again and nobody shows up. After all, isn't this the same media that made Trump a household name?
 
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