Posted on 06/27/2017 3:16:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
These are difficult times for America’s journalists, and not just because it’s been such a struggle to replace the failed business models of the 20th Century (but hey, we’re working on it). Since the dawn of the 2016 presidential campaign, reporters have been harassed, threatened and even arrested and charged with felonies for simply doing their jobs. The winner of that election has threatened to remove libel protections and retaliate against specific news organizations while riling up crowds against the media at his Nuremberg-style rallies. Some moves by the Trump administration are unprecedented, including the latest: Frequently ordering journalists not to film the daily presidential briefings by Sean Spicer or his surrogates, another brick in the wall that Team Trump is constructing against press freedom.
From a report last week in the Atlantic:
But instead of canceling them entirely, the White House has appeared to embrace a different strategy: simply downgrading them bit by bit, from “briefings” to “gaggles,” and from on-camera to off-camera. Guidance for the briefings have begun to include a note that audio from them cannot be used. Additionally, though Trump has held short press conferences when foreign leaders visit, he has not held a full press conference since February.
The changes haven’t gone unnoticed, although reporters are still attending the gaggles. A clearly exasperated Jim Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, said on Monday that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had become “kind of useless.”
“It feels like we’re slowly but surely being dragged into what is a new normal in this country, where the president of the United States is allowed to insulate himself from answering hard questions,” Acosta said on CNN.....
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
This is why we hate you, for the lies you tell, like here.
Nuremberg rallies? Really?
This is why we hate you, for the lies you tell each day.
Every day, in every way, your lies get deeper and deeper.
It will be the lost opportunity of the century if some smart and politically savvy investors fail to see how to make billions of dollars from the meltdown of NBC and CNN and the suicide of Fox News.
If not now, when?
Their tears are nectar.
Oh boo-hoo Will you little snowflake. Grow a set.
They’ve lied themselves out of business.
Will the last one leaving the mainstream media please turn out the lights.
Don’t forget the lure of free cigarettes, 40ozers, and/or press gangs to get people into the venues.
[[Trump has held short press conferences when foreign leaders visit, he has not held a full press conference since February.
The changes haven’t gone unnoticed, although reporters are still attending the gaggles. A clearly exasperated Jim Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, said on Monday that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had become “kind of useless.” ]]
Lol it’s amazing he even lets the pack of liars in the door.
He needs to park the tails out on the back lawn .
Oh and CNN should even be allowed on the lawn with their latest admission.
He doesn’t them , he has twitter and he knows how to use it.
(Oh I’m loving it too )
Nazis always call other people Nazis.
“Nuremberg-style rallies...”
If anything reeks of the Nuremberg-style of unfettered propaganda, it’s the lies from the snakes in the MSM.
SJWs always lie.
SJWs always project.
SJWs always double down.
Change SJW to MSM and it is still accurate.
Yep, this all started with that terrible fascist Donald Trump. Uh huh.
We are a Republic!
1. The Yellow Journalism days of Pulitzer and Hearst. A time when the phony media started a war. (Spanish American War).
Or....
2. Pravda. The USSR media that printed only what the State wanted printed.
Or...
3. The Fake News Networks of today. CNN, the Washington Post and dozens more news agencies that lie like dogs with their leftist agendas.
Which is/was worse?
I for one have greater respect for options 1 and 2 than I have for today’s Fake News media.
This guy was a card carrying member of the JournoListas...an Obama buttkisser and Fake Newser from way back...
The reporter ought to know that throwing the Nazi card automatically forfeits the argument, but he's a liberal, so he probably thinks he's being clever.
Dude is probably some self important millenial who's been indoctrinated to believe that the goal of good journalism is to elevate and forward leftist propaganda, and destroy the right political right by any means necessary.
We need the Boohoo girl here!
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