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Trump says he may 'terminate' New York Times, Washington Post from White House
Yahoo Noose ^ | October 22, 2019 | Stephen Proctor, Noose Reporter

Posted on 10/22/2019 8:37:31 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

On Hannity Monday night, Donald Trump made a statement about prominent media outlets that under any other administration may have come as a surprise. The Trump administration has long had a combative relationship with the media, in particular the New York Times and the Washington Post, and Trump told Sean Hannity he may “terminate” the outlets from the White House altogether.

“They gave Pulitzer Prizes to people that got it wrong, OK?” Trump said. “All these people doing it for the New York Times, which is a fake newspaper, we don’t even want it in the White House anymore. We’re gonna probably terminate that and the Washington Post. They’re fake.”

This wouldn’t be an unprecedented move as last November CNN’s Jim Acosta briefly had his White House press credentials revoked following a contentious press conference. But, as Trump and Hannity lamented the lack of media coverage on the debunked yet oft-repeated conspiracy theory about the Bidens and Ukraine, Trump assured Hannity that he doesn’t see all media in the same light.

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KEYWORDS: fishwrap; keepowt; trumpmedia
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To: sphinx
The White House press corps has become counterproductive. It is a pack of sycophants for democrats and a pack of hyenas for Republicans, but it’s pack journalism either way.

I agree 100% and it's been this way since Nixon days (at least). Republican presidents are treated horribly with little respect and Democrat presidents get their asses kissed and lobbed nothing but softball questions.

As well, having the media camped at the WH is no longer necessary in this age of social media. This hearkens back to a day when the president had limited reach to the American people.

Today, the president can reach tens of millions of people instantly with one Tweet, for example, which then quickly gets retweeted and cascaded throughout all other media portals. The president is constantly taking media questions at public appearances which then get quickly embedded into social media streams which reaches the American people almost instantly.

The WH Press Corps are dinosaurs of a bygone era. Time to shut it down.

21 posted on 10/22/2019 9:15:02 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Sgt_Schultze
... Take all other questions first. Include conservative bloggers into the pool. Take their questions. Ostracize the enemedia, ...

Then end the questions and walk away.

Yep

22 posted on 10/22/2019 9:21:01 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: BrexitBen

Terminate with extreme prejudice. :)


23 posted on 10/22/2019 9:30:17 AM PDT by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: BrexitBen

Terminate with extreme prejudice. :)


24 posted on 10/22/2019 9:30:52 AM PDT by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: Navy Patriot; All
debunked yet oft-repeated conspiracy theory about the Bidens and Ukraine

No bias there..../s
25 posted on 10/22/2019 9:35:31 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (Yeah, let's GO THERE. I'm ready...)
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To: Navy Patriot

[[The Trump administration has long had a combative relationship with the media,]]

Hey Yahoos- you never mentioned obama’s ‘long term feud’ with fox news where he was constantly whining about the station- why is that ya hypocrites?


26 posted on 10/22/2019 9:45:21 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Navy Patriot

The Terminator!

I hope Trump starts “terminating” these enemies of the Republic soon. Indict them. Arrest them. Lock them up.


27 posted on 10/22/2019 9:56:47 AM PDT by nonsporting (MAGA -- Make America Godly Again)
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To: Navy Patriot

Remember that university study indicating news outlets political bias, on both sides? Here’s the fix for future White House press conferences:: the top 33% of left-leaning outlets, AND the top 33% of right-leaning outlets, will no longer be permitted to attend. That means the remaining attendees 33% (middle of the road) will report for the nation.


28 posted on 10/22/2019 10:29:34 AM PDT by DrTact
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To: sphinx

Agreed, kick them all out, every last one of them. Tell them if we need you will call you, otherwise we will tweet or release press statements to you since you obviously couldn’t tell the truth to save you out of hell.


29 posted on 10/22/2019 11:19:07 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: Navy Patriot

I’ve never subscribed to the NYT because I’ve never lived there. I subscribed to the Washington ComPost for about 5 years after being assigned to Washington, DC and then dropped it for the Washington Times until it closed down.


30 posted on 10/22/2019 1:09:59 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

Wash Times still exists

https://www.washingtontimes.com/

Do you mean the Washington Star?


31 posted on 10/22/2019 1:13:10 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Navy Patriot

Lynch them! Figuratively, of course.


32 posted on 10/22/2019 1:21:08 PM PDT by hattend
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To: Reily

No, I meant the Washington Times. As it existed under the “Moonie church” until it ended its subsidies to the Wash Times. I don’t remember how long ago, it started cutting back on its printed distribution area and one day it stopped arriving at my house near Andrews AFB, Maryland.

They announced that all subscriptions outside the beltway were being terminated. Within a year, it completely closed down and that was about 2009-10. I don’t remember when it was reopened by someone else but it was a couple of years later.

The current Washington Times is a re-start from a few years ago, but after 2010.

In the meantime the Washington Examiner began as a conservative paper that was initially free at all of the Metro subway train stops and in boxes downtown. And then the Examiner stopped the print edition and went all digital.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times


33 posted on 10/22/2019 1:27:22 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

Didn’t know that!
I didn’t subscribe to either paper, so paid little attention to them.


34 posted on 10/22/2019 1:35:45 PM PDT by Reily
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