Posted on 11/12/2016 7:29:42 AM PST by maggief
The relationship between Donald Trump and the news media is as acrimonious as ever following his victory in Tuesday’s presidential election.
Members of the press complain that Trump isn't adequately informing the media about his decisions as president-elect, calling it a violation of practices meant to ensure access to and transparency around the leader of the free world.
The tensions come after a bitter campaign, in which Trump used the press as a foil.
The Republican nominee frequently lambasted the news media as “dishonest” during his rallies, and crowds would chant slogans such as “CNN sucks” and hurl invective at members of his traveling press corps. Trump continued the theme late Thursday night, when he took to Twitter to blame the media for fueling nationwide protests against his election as president. He walked back his comment in a subsequent tweet.
Here are some of the points of contention:
Press Pool
Trump did not allow reporters to travel with him to Washington on Thursday for meetings with President Obama and leaders in Congress.
His team never allowed a so-called “pool” of reporters and photographers to travel on his plane during the campaign.
Every modern president and president-elect has traveled with a pool, but news organizations have thus far failed to convince Trump’s advisers to immediately adopt the practice.
The White House, and not Trump’s team, made arrangements to have a pool of journalists cover the president-elect’s meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Of course Obama and Soros did beautifully for America? OH, that’s right Soros has poured some money into nbc.
I don’t think it’s real. Maybe the President-elect will hold up a Newsweek copy during his interview with Leslie Stahl.
It will become an iconic image.
The press outed itself as propagandists. Why should they bother with a presidential press pool? Nobody is going to read or believe anything these people “report” again for a very, very long time.
Screw the mdia unhappiness about not hearing from the President-Elect. They showed their true colors before, and now after, the election.They are nothing but an extension of the Democrat Party. I suspect their depression and anger will be seen for a long, long time in everything they say and do.
The press must be reformed. By the way I find the PC on television annoying with 14% of the population getting 90% of the face time.
National recall after Newsweek misfires with Clinton cover
http://tinyurl.com/HillyWins
A national recall went out Wednesday for the special “Madame President” issue of Newsweek that was prematurely shipped to stores and newsstands across the country.
Kinda’ like Dewey Wins! all over again
Those who do no wrong have zero to fear. The only way for them to regain any credibility is to do as the NYT recently promised and start some aboveboard reporting instead of deceitful propaganda. He probably won’t use the same mocking tones he did during the campaign (and like Obama never stopped using) but he will hammer them if they continue the way they are.
THEY started it.
I haven’t seen this country so divided since the height of the Vietnam War
WE can’t survive this constant barrage of nightly lies and distortions from the MSM that is going to occur for 4 years
We are on the verge of outright civil war or disintegration of what was once the USA
The next press plane needs to land in Mexico City.
The one after that...Afghanistan.
The next one...North Korea.
Eventually the idiots of the press will figure out it is a bad idea to get on the Trump press plane!
He can also selectively grant access to honest reporters from the so called alt media (thus defacto changing it into the dominant media). He has a good 18 months of evidence to choose the ones that report the truth, and dismiss the lying sacks. Of course the MSM would go berserk, but not for long. They would either amend their ways or be driven from the stage by economics.
You meant “liable”, but “libel” is a perfect Freudian slip.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
LOL! You need to post the dog of post #3 to the right of this one. :-)
BINGO!! I want MSM heads to roll for their “crimes”!!
Face it all you socialist media people. Hillary and Barry ruined your party and no one believes you anymore.
Why would DJT want their smelly rat-behinds sitting aboard his private plane?
He’d have to comb it for sabotage every time one of them departed. They are to much trouble -too pushy and sour.
Let them pay their own way and travel coach commercially; that’s where they belong.
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