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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI call on all reputable news agencies to stop covering trumps pressers
and campaign appearances. I also call on my fellow countrymen to write, email or call said agencies and if they don't stop, then start the boycotts of their sponsers
SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Exactly the dream of any would be authoritarian, to be sheltered from press coverage.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)Someone gets it.
See FB page "People's Bill Of Rights For White House Transparency"
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)They could follow him around and report on everything he does. Its giving him the platform for gaslighting that they could stop
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)How many times do we have to call attention to the FACT that every time a reporter persists and shows up in the James Brady Briefing Room he/she is laying down a marker for history that...
The PEOPLE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO QUESTION THEIR PRESIDENT!!
Stop badgering the press to give up that right!!
How many Americans have shed their blood for the protections of the First Amendment?? How many??
How many reporters stand up daily and face a tyrant? What kind of courage does that take??
THINK, PEOPLE!!
How sweet would this tyrant feel if he vanquished the press?
Geezus.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)It to sycophants though. This he revoked the credentials of those who would challenge him
MFM008
(19,806 posts)but maggot doesn't GIVE answers. ..........
He lies an average of 30 times a day, so who cares what he says
or any of his reps, THEY ALL LIE.
Second...he doesn't care about the constitution,
those assumptions apply to a normal human being.
He almost always calls on softball organizations and gives blithering
self promoting answers.
Last?
He would be DEVASTATED without the news coverage
he needs it, he thrives on it, FEEDS on it.
How do you think he gets his journalist/ constitution hating message out?
Posting online or U Tube.
Don't apply normal standards to his little nest of vipers.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)....is to preserve the RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE as guaranteed in the Constitution to question their president.
That's why they must show up every fricking day no matter what whargable spews from his mouth.
It isn't about him, really.
It is about the Constitutional imperative. Laying down that marker, day after day.
Day after day after day.
LisaM
(27,803 posts)just run his actual comments with a rolling transcript being read by an actor (my choice being Eddie Murphy). It would kill Trump to not have his face shown, and the country would get the results of the presser, and be able to read Trump's word salads the way he spews them.
Can you imagine, just a picture of the briefing room, with a scrolling transcript, and NO PHOTOS or video of Trump? That would be the best response, IMO, because like it or not, presidents make news and we deserve to hear it, and it would kill him if they didn't show his face or play his voice.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)He'd be perfect to give voice-over to trump's panting.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)The result of that being only the right wing media possessing direct access between the administration and the people.
I'd call it "asking the press to refuse their duties, and roll over onto their backs to show their bellies."
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)The motto for the press corps should be "They persisted"....and Jim Acosta has validated that and lost his press pass in the process.
This is a war on the people's right to question their government.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)But I think they'd do well to all ask the same question. Make it something about Acosta, or ask Acosta's questions until they get answers.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)The White House Correspondents Association has opportunities to comment on various platforms including FB, Twitter, web site. It only takes a minute to stand with them against tyranny.
I hope DUers will make that effort. Until January, the watchdog press is the only check we have on tyranny.
Autumn
(45,064 posts)With no actual real reporters to witness the truth all the American people will get is pure bullshit propaganda, Trump version.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)....that I am beginning to wonder if it is like the Russians' "walk away" project.
The press is the only check we currently have on Trump.
Why are people -- MANY people -- on DU calling for the press to stop questioning him??
Autumn
(45,064 posts)all over DU.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)I see it all over FB comments, too.
Autumn
(45,064 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)He will do the same to anyone else questions him
Autumn
(45,064 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)And he will do it with delight.
And he will and has admitted stooges, shills, white nationalists to the press corps in order to dilute its power.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Wouldn't work. tRump would be more than exuberant to discontinue all press briefings
and this would play directly into his hands. I can hear it now: "If the Press isn't going to show up, we'll just shut them down permanently." That would leave tRump and his sleazy administration to do their dirty work without having to broadcast or answer to any of it. It would be very counter-productive. No pressers means no reporters needed. They'd be signing their own pink slips to obscurity.
They need to show up, push back, and show tRump for the ass he is. I like that they've been showing some forcefulness lately. The Press has been too silent and accepting of poor treatment for far too long. If tRump then shuts them down for aggressiveness, then there will be reason for the public to show its disdain and push back themselves.
The Press needs to stay up close and personal in tRump's face to let him know that his way is NOT the way government is run!
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)Too much blood of soldiers and patriots has been spilled protecting our First Amendment protections of the press.
Show up!
Push back!
Persist!
And we people can protect and defend our courageous watchdogs. They are the only check we have on Trump until Jan.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)trump's pressers covered the way Joe, Mike and the Bots covered stupid movies on MST3K.