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An open letter to Trump from the US press corps
Columbia Journalism Review ^ | January 17, 2017 | Kyle Pope

Posted on 01/18/2017 6:33:47 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT ELECT:

In these final days before your inauguration, we thought it might be helpful to clarify how we see the relationship between your administration and the American press corps.

It will come as no surprise to you that we see the relationship as strained. Reports over the last few days that your press secretary is considering pulling news media offices out of the White House are the latest in a pattern of behavior that has persisted throughout the campaign: You’ve banned news organizations from covering you. You’ve taken to Twitter to taunt and threaten individual reporters and encouraged your supporters to do the same. You’ve advocated for looser libel laws and threatened numerous lawsuits of your own, none of which has materialized. You’ve avoided the press when you could and flouted the norms of pool reporting and regular press conferences. You’ve ridiculed a reporter who wrote something you didn’t like because he has a disability.

All of this, of course, is your choice and, in a way, your right. While the Constitution protects the freedom of the press, it doesn’t dictate how the president must honor that; regular press conferences aren’t enshrined in the document.

But while you have every right to decide your ground rules for engaging with the press, we have some, too. It is, after all, our airtime and column inches that you are seeking to influence. We, not you, decide how best to serve our readers, listeners, and viewers. So think of what follows as a backgrounder on what to expect from us over the next four years.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: journalism; mainstreammedia; openletters; presscorps; trump; trumpmedia; trumptransition
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To: Ciaphas Cain

When I was a kid we used to use the term “TS” to respond to ridiculous comments like this. I wonder what that stood for? ;)


21 posted on 01/18/2017 6:44:37 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

EVEN MORE WINNING!!!


22 posted on 01/18/2017 6:45:43 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

To wit...


Dear Mr. President:

We understand our relationship is strained, and we want to make things happy again. So let’s discuss how to reconcile our differences.

You suck. We hate you. Here’s our narrative of how you suck, and we’re not going to accept any corrections: _____________

You’re going to do things our way to make us look good, which is best done by ensuring we make you look bad. So work with us here, giving us dirt on you to fling from the rooftops, and meekly accepting & cherishing whatever bovine excrement we hurtle at you.

We could go on, but you get the point.

You suck, so suck ours,

- The Major News Media


23 posted on 01/18/2017 6:45:44 AM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Couldn't get past the first sentence, I was laughing too hard. Yeah, right -- they're going to clarify the relationship. As if!
24 posted on 01/18/2017 6:46:15 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: Red Badger

Trump the Torch!

Burn Them Down!


25 posted on 01/18/2017 6:46:33 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

so, Kyle Pope speaks for all media ?


26 posted on 01/18/2017 6:47:30 AM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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To: Navin Johnson

An open letter to Trump from the US press corps

Hey press corp just get a twitter account and you won’t need a press conference. That will of course preclude your filter but, so sad.


27 posted on 01/18/2017 6:48:03 AM PST by JayAr36 (Lets just reneame the Democrats to DRATS. I think the description is accurate.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

It’s only relatively recent in history that reporters have had college educations. It doesn’t seem to have done them much good having all these wonderful credentials.


28 posted on 01/18/2017 6:49:06 AM PST by The Public Eye
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Is ‘Freedom of the Press’ actually enumerated in the Constitution of is it just a variation of ‘free speech’?


29 posted on 01/18/2017 6:52:13 AM PST by Fhios
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To: Ciaphas Cain
You’ve ridiculed a reporter who wrote something you didn’t like because he has a disability.

This is an example of the blatant dishonesty of those people who nowadays call themselves "Journalists."

Trump mocked him because of what he wrote, not because he had a disability.

30 posted on 01/18/2017 6:52:35 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Ciaphas Cain

S’OK


31 posted on 01/18/2017 6:52:51 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“We have to regain that trust”

Why?


32 posted on 01/18/2017 6:53:11 AM PST by The Toll
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To: eCSMaster

Apparently Trump is planning to do away with the Press Room entirely. No point in having 5th Column enemy agents in your own house daily.


33 posted on 01/18/2017 6:53:12 AM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“It is, after all, our airtime and column inches that you are seeking to influence.”

Starting laughing out loud at my desk. I’d kindly suggest that the author of this re-think his assumptions. I’d argue that President Trump isn’t seeking your adoration, acceptance, air time, or influence. He’s acting on what many have come to know - you’re biased hard to port and untrustworthy to the extent of being malicious. There’s no point engaging with you bastards. Rather, it is YOU that needs to drastically change because PRESIDENT TRUMP is bypassing you and making you irrelevant. It’s about damn time someone did.


34 posted on 01/18/2017 6:54:19 AM PST by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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To: xzins
Please kick them out of the White House and give them a different building nearby.

Agree. It is important to demonstrate to them that they do not warrant such a degree of respect as would be sufficient to allow them into the White House.

They need to be brought down to earth and made to realize that they aren't important; That their jobs could be better done by non "professionals."

We need to go to war on the existing dominant media.

35 posted on 01/18/2017 6:55:47 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Ciaphas Cain

essentially, they’re saying that they have all the power, and Trump has none. They’ve obviously failed to learn anything from the last two years.


36 posted on 01/18/2017 6:56:18 AM PST by euram
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Dear Major News Media:

Get out of my house.

Your President whether you like it or not,

Mr. President


37 posted on 01/18/2017 6:58:02 AM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Navin Johnson

This condescending letter is a Soliloquy disguised as an open letter to Trump.

These entertainment news anchors and networks can’t get it into their heads that Trump feeds of their tears and lamentations.

Time to bring back Max Headroom.


38 posted on 01/18/2017 6:58:28 AM PST by Fhios
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To: The Public Eye
It’s only relatively recent in history that reporters have had college educations. It doesn’t seem to have done them much good having all these wonderful credentials.

It has in fact achieved nothing but indoctrination. They are cookie cutter socialists now.

39 posted on 01/18/2017 6:58:48 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Even if the media were totally balanced, I still wouldn’t want a gaggle of reporters in the house where my family is supposed to live. A nearby media center would be just fine.


40 posted on 01/18/2017 6:59:08 AM PST by xzins (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
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