Posted on 06/13/2019 12:53:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
The White House Correspondents' Association typically keeps a low profile in its discussions with the White House press secretary over issues involving the news media. It tends not to wade into controversy, at least not in public.
But faced with the president's continued hostility and confronted by false official statements, the two candidates vying to become president of the group want to take a bolder - and more confrontational - approach.
"We as an organization need to be more concerned about getting lied to as a matter of course - and the American public getting lied to, through us - than about access," HuffPost correspondent S.V. Date wrote in an email touting his candidacy to the WHCA's 425 voting members.
He added, "I've been in this business more than three decades, and what's happening now is unprecedented. We are attacked on a near daily basis using Stalinist language. We are called corrupt and dishonest. We are given false information from staff who often know full well that it is false."
CBS News Radio reporter Steven Portnoy, 38, uses less explosive language in his pitch for support, but makes clear his disappointment that the White House hasn't held a press briefing in a record 93 days as of Wednesday.
Ticking off a long list of news stories that have transpired in that time (for example, "Pelosi-Schumer talks implode as Pelosi accuses Trump of 'cover up' "), Portnoy wrote: "As the president continues to call news organizations 'corrupt,' these are just some of the issues he has ducked by not having his aides appear regularly before the press corps."
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Portnoy's Complaint ??
IOW, they are feeling ‘ignored’.....................
LOL to your image.
“We are given false information from staff who often know full well that it is false.” — the American people, referring to the fake news media.
Trump talks to the media almost every day. He stops & talks when he leaves the WH. Yesterday, he answered questions with the Polish President in the WH & also outside the WH.
I’m pretty sure he has spent more time with the prestitutes than any other President.
Excellent
I see Trump quite regularly going outside the WH and taking questions for half an hour or more. I’m not sure what their complaint is.
That’s rich, them complaining about being lied to. Their “industry” has been lying to us continuously for decades on end and they never apologize even when they are caught lying. They just move on and lie about something else. Remember the media promoting “weapons of mass destruction” to push us into a war? How many died because of their lies? Remember the slobbering and a$$ kissing of 0bama since 2007 and continuing to this day? Remember the 2.5 years of “Russian Collusion” 24/7? Does this fool even address any of the media lies?
Bitches bitch. It’s what they do.
Huff post is one of the worst. They are Trump hating 24/7.
How many died because of their lies?
Remember the slobbering and a$$ kissing of 0bama since 2007 and continuing to this day?
Remember the 2.5 years of “Russian Collusion” 24/7? Does this fool even address any of the media lies?
Nope, neither of 'these fools' bothers to address the big media lies...those they ignore.
I'd like to know how many conservatives (of the Trump variety) they have in any of their 'newsrooms' for a start... I'm guessing 'NOT MANY - AND MAYBE NONE'...
LOL — Festivus was the first thing I thought of!
The White House media, like its loyalists in the Democrat Party, can dish it out but can’t take it. They have found out that Trump carries his own bullhorn and, in fact, they are irrelevant.
“...the American public getting lied to, through us ...”
A true statement from the media if ever I heard one
Then the poor ink-stained blowhards can cut loose.
So the vending machines outside the press room really were left empty?
Move the venue to another govt building.
Their complaint is that he always gets one over on them instead of the other way around...they can’t grasp the rules of this “game” much less use them to their advantage....even in this they have fallen prey to President Trump’s manipulations of them....ironic.
I still ask, why haven’t their advertisers figured that out yet?
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