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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cjr.org ...
"We will set higher standards for ourselves than ever before. We credit you with highlighting serious and widespread distrust in the media across the political spectrum. Your campaign tapped into that, and it was a bracing wake-up call for us. We have to regain that trust. And we’ll do it through accurate, fearless reporting, by acknowledging our errors and abiding by the most stringent ethical standards we set for ourselves."
Written by another snowflake without a clue.
The Columbia Kindergarten of Journalism is getting restless. Nappy time!
The Columbia Kindergarten of Journalism is getting restless. Nappy time!
“We Will Set the Rules, Not You: US Media to President-Elect Trump”
(chuckle) These liberal fools of Columbia are finally feeling the REALITY which they are so adjusted to avoiding in their liberal bubble.
Just wait little snowflakes. You ain’t seen nuttin’ yet!!
Trump to the press.:
Bend over.
Locate your Obamahole.
Crawl in it.
Trump to the Press:
Take a flying freak at a rolling donut!
This would be funny if I didn’t believe the writer is sincere.
Please kick them out of the White House and give them a different building nearby.
The WH should primarily be a residence for the family, secondarily a command center, and only peripherally a place to brief one’s trusted media connections to disseminate a comment from the President.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahaha@! ! ! ! ! *snort*! ! ! *giggle*.
You f'in' morons wouldn't know ethics if it walked up and kicked you in the nuts.
"we set for ourselves". Yeah, right.
If this is for real, these people are either clueless or delusional, or both.
Either way they are self-important, self-righteous, pompous, scumbags.....................
Arrogance. Unbound arrogance.
Every American is a member of the media. What makes a name tag with the words “press credential” give more power to the bearer than anybody else?
Who elected Helen Thomas or Sam Donaldson to the office of media? Nobody did. Get rid of them.
Never understood why there was a fixed White House press corp. If I was the president, I’d fly in a different set of five or ten reporters from small town media outlets every single day.
And at times just go right over their heads, as Trump does, with Twitter.
When Pres. Trump selects only 49 “Journalists” who can fit on the Press Room, and bypasses CNN, WaPO, NY Slimes, etc., we’ll hear them wailing and moaning.
That’s rich
And yet this comes from a "journalist with high standards". Unbelievable arrogance.
After 8 years fawning over and covering for the most corrupt Admin in our history, the Press now promises to hold the new President accountable?? I’m sure it has NOTHING TO DO with the fact the Press didn’t/doesn’t support him. /s
Cover the corruption of the feckless Democrats and, in a few years, MAYBE we will start paying attention to you again, American Press!
Didn’t see that in a search. I was looking for the word “press”.
“...in a way, your right...”[sic]
Hey, mr. Press corpse...shouldn’t that be “...you’re right...”? Were you bottom of your class in journalism school?
I think they should not be in White House. They will take advantage like that one journalist that took pictures of Tillerson’s notes from his hearing.
Media can not be trusted.
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