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Biden WH under fire for reportedly screening briefing questions: 'Universal outrage' if Trump did this
Fox News ^ | February 2, 2021 | Brian Flood

Posted on 02/02/2021 9:32:49 AM PST by lowbridge

A new, eyebrow-raising report suggests the White House communications team has attempted to screen questions for press secretary Jen Psaki in advance of daily briefings, as media watchdogs caution that the Biden team will have to walk a fine line given the way reporters treated President Trump's spokespeople.

Spectator USA editor Amber Athey, who used to be a White House correspondent for The Daily Caller, never experienced anything resembling what Biden’s communications staff has been accused of.

"The Trump administration certainly never asked me for questions in advance and I suspect there would have been universal outrage from reporters if they had done so," Athey told Fox News.

Reporters have reportedly gotten so frustrated by the practice that they’ve complained to colleagues.

"This is a totally normal procedure if you live in a banana republic, it’s absolutely unheard of in this country," conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; agitprop; bananarepublic; bias; censorship; commies; mediabias; psakithelackey
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1 posted on 02/02/2021 9:32:49 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Dems colluding with the media - business as usual.


2 posted on 02/02/2021 9:34:02 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: I want the USA back

WHAT media??


3 posted on 02/02/2021 9:35:13 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: lowbridge

Well...welcome to the Banana Republic,


4 posted on 02/02/2021 9:35:32 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: lowbridge

The ones who are NOT COMPLAINING?

ABCNNBCBSAPNYTWAPO........................


5 posted on 02/02/2021 9:36:14 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: lowbridge

Because this code pink commie moron Psaki is... INCOMPETENT and gives away the real intent of these commies with JoeBama. Susan Rice— well she sticks to whatever she is told to say— as utterly COMMUNIST as it is. Psaki is a cypher— a babbling buffoon.


6 posted on 02/02/2021 9:36:17 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: lowbridge

It’s not Fascism when Democrats do it.

Here’s the dic tator “you” in the media spent 4 years worrying would come to rule America


7 posted on 02/02/2021 9:37:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: lowbridge

Fox reports this?

What did they expect, pushing Trump out ushering this person in?

Fox is insane


8 posted on 02/02/2021 9:37:34 AM PST by stanne
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To: lowbridge

These people rigged a presidential election. Cheating in press conferences is well within their behavior. Is this even shocking to anyone?


9 posted on 02/02/2021 9:37:35 AM PST by cdcdawg (My greatest fear is that our society will get what it deserves.)
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To: lowbridge

Stupid of the Biden/Harris regime to do this.

The pinkos who run the so-called “news” media have long been eager to help destroy America.


10 posted on 02/02/2021 9:37:54 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: John S Mosby

She wasn’t hired for brains.


11 posted on 02/02/2021 9:37:55 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: lowbridge

Another article I definitely won’t read since I detest Biden, Fox and the news media.


12 posted on 02/02/2021 9:38:40 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: BenLurkin

Deep State’s not real big on trust.

That’s why they like morons.


13 posted on 02/02/2021 9:38:40 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: John S Mosby

Uh Um seem to be her favorite terms

Also WH.gov had Trump pressers often I would look daily for times . These people post none that I have seen


14 posted on 02/02/2021 9:38:50 AM PST by Bell Bouy II
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To: mewzilla

Looks either


15 posted on 02/02/2021 9:39:08 AM PST by Bell Bouy II
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To: lowbridge

They are all friends, c’mon man!


16 posted on 02/02/2021 9:40:22 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Bell Bouy II

Minimized exposure of their incompetency lest any TRUTH get out by a nominally sublevel “journalist” that hasn’t been detected and removed already from the pool.


17 posted on 02/02/2021 9:44:20 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: lowbridge

If it’s good enough for Hillary, it’s good enough for these people.


18 posted on 02/02/2021 9:46:47 AM PST by ryderann
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To: lowbridge

Their only mistake was thinking that this has been normalized to everyone, as they do this all the time.


19 posted on 02/02/2021 9:47:29 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: cdcdawg

Coming from a guy who spent the campaign in his basement, I would expect nothing less.

It’s gonna be a loooong four years.


20 posted on 02/02/2021 9:50:46 AM PST by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!)
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