Posted on 06/08/2018 9:50:56 AM PDT by jazusamo
The White House Press Corps has jumped the shark and needs to be reined in. While I respect and admire Sarah Huckabee Sanders's work, and I enjoy her ability to spar with an increasingly hostile force, the daily briefings have become about the media agenda and not the White House's agenda.
Having a White House press credential is not a right; it is a privilege. The First Amendment prevents Congress from making any law ... abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press . It does not grant license to media sycophants to drive their agenda in the people's house. For far too long, we've allowed the left free rein. It is time to take charge of the narrative and make it known that we will no longer tolerate the press obfuscating the news.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders needs to make an example of one or more of the Press Corps by yanking their credentials.
In the past week, we have seen at least three incidents where this action was more than justified.
Jim Acosta
In Jim Acosta's most recent tantrum, he attempted to rally the Press Corps to gang up on Sarah Sanders when one of them got cut off. Having abandoned decorum long ago, Acosta appears to want to make these briefings about him and his outlet (CNN)'s agenda.
April Ryan
Not wanting to miss an opportunity to attack our president...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I want to see a penalty box in the corner of the briefing room.... with sound proof glass
I think reducing the number of press briefings is the way to go. True, this “punishes” all the reporters. But they know who the trouble makers are.
If there are five briefings per week, pick a day and suspend that briefing. If, after two or three weeks, the reporters are still misbehaving, cut another day. And so forth.
The libs will have a fit over this. Too bad. “Their” press has caused it.
100% agree. Disband it, or replace them with patriot reporters. Can you imagine their fits if they had to listen to patriot journalists (and there are so many outstanding ones) ask the questions? That would be SO ENTERTAINING!
At the very minimum, why don’t they at least issue Courtesy Guidelines? When the foreign press asks questions, they are so polite and respectful. Is this asking too much of these American “journalists”?
Make them ask their questions ONE TIME with one respectful follow up question. If the next one asks the same question again, they are booted out right then and there. All violations need to be dealt with firmly and at the time they occur.
This is how effective teachers and parents establish and maintain firm and proper control when dealing with unruly, out of control children.
bump
I wish we could come up with a new word, I spent thirty years selling, servicing and repairing small format offset printing equipment and related. I still am not used to hearing the word “printer” used to mean something that images a sheet of paper. I still think of a printer as a person who operates a press. To me “press” still means a machine as in an electromechanical device, not a political machine.
Probably will happen after the November elections as a "housekeeping item" entering the new year...snicker
Agreed, it's become a parody of itself goo only for SNL hate filled skits. Let's get back to real questions and not attacks and left wing reporter showboating..
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