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Hours after President Donald Trump denounced critical journalists as the enemy of the people before a cheering crowd of supporters, major news outlets were blacklisted from a White House press gaggle while the administrations sycophants were ushered in.
CNN was not permitted to attend, along with the New York Times, Politico, Buzzfeed and much of the foreign press that regularly attends White House briefings, CNN reported. Instead, White House press secretary Sean Spicer found room for the pro-Trump outlets Breitbart.com, The Washington Times, and One America News Network.
The restrictions mark the return of the Trump campaigns strategy of revoking reporters press credentials and denying them access to events following unfavorable coverage of the now-president.
They also cap off a week of vitriolic attacks on the press from Trumps administration. Last Friday, Trump tweeted that The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) ... is the enemy of the American People! Spicer and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus have since defended Trumps comments, blaming the media for failing to be fair to the president.
Yesterday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), White House chief strategist and former Breitbart chief Stephen Bannon referred (again) to the press as the opposition party, telling the audience that the administrations feud with the corporatist, globalist media will only get worse because they are adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/24/trump-just-blacklisted-media-outlets-we-warned-you-would-happen/215456
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)This is not funny and where does he think he's going with this?
world wide wally
(21,741 posts)And realize that he is your ENEMY as well as ours.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)asked for this upcoming dictatorship....I needed no warning because I didn't waste my vote and when it became clear that it was cast on the alleged losing side....the bannon triumvirate of he, miller and their boy-potus puppet let me know, it really is a racist culture wishing ALL people of color death or groveling servitude to the new white masters of the fucking universe. AmeriKKKans who voted for the KKK triumvirate will get what they deserve...all we can do is resist and persist.
Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)where no truth is allowed, only blind compliance with The Orange Snowflake!
lpbk2713
(42,755 posts)The similarities get closer every day.
From the link: "The good news is that The Associated Press and Time magazine reportedly stood up for their profession, showed solidarity with their colleagues, and boycotted the gaggle. The bad news is that NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News did not, leaving open the question of whether the administration will face consequences if officials continue to use such tactics to divide and conquer the press."
My respect and admiration go out to AP and Time. The others ... they just want a story at any price.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Kim Jong Un says the same thing....
Warpy
(111,252 posts)after nearly two years of having them breathlessly reporting every stupid thing that falls out of his mouth or onto Twitter. He's a creation of the media and my guess is that he's not going to do without them for long.
And no, people are not going to turn to Breitbart for news. It's well known to be a radical right site pumping out phony stories.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)They have outlets every where anyway... It would be great if people would just boycott them totally, and protest in front of their offices in downtown NYC.
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)or read about the lies he told. More time for them to find the links between 45 and Russia.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)ugly mug!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)How will "Spicey" treat the correspondents that were banned today? Run them out (or over) with his podium-on-a-segway?
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)They had a a solid two week run and the highest viewership in years, and followed up with a re-run.
Come on, SNL!
We're counting on you!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)We wish....
The best of the media may be banned from the White House Press but that won't stop the truth from coming out. Who needs Sean Spicer when the Administration. the intelligence agencies and the FBI are leaking so much?