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.
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Snowflakes got the message. You’re fired!
I agree with you. It’s a crazy thing to trust your enemies in your own house.
Two words for the Columbia School of Communism: Twitter Account!
That seems reasonable to me, but at this point it is important to show them the door, and make them understand precisely why they are being shown the door.
Anything that punctures their pompous arrogance is now beneficial to the nation.
Trumps response-”I won, my house, my rules”
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.
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Best idea on this thread. You should develop that into a complete thread showing how you would make it work, including giving press from middle America a special badge that would insure they’d be called on in the daily press conference. In a year, up to 300 reporters from towns across the heart of this country would be heard and could pass along their reports to their communities.
Your brilliance here is surpassing. Don’t let it go unnoticed.
And may I simply say.....
“pack up all your cares and woes,
hit the pike,
there you go!
Bye-bye, press corps...”
The winning is so much fun.
5.56mm
I agree.
A boot in the ass on the way out.
Try again you lying sack of bovine excrement.
Glenn Kessler (Washington Post) wrote: "“There were some reports of celebrations overseas, in Muslim countries, but nothing that we can find involving the Arab populations of New Jersey.”
Kessler was forced to add the following update after readers spent 30 seconds on Google and fact-checked Kessler
"Some readers have tweeted to The Fact Checker a Washington Post article from Sept. 18, 2001, as evidence of Trump’s claim. The article, which appeared on page 6, described FBI probes in northern New Jersey after the attacks, saying in the 15th paragraph that “law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.”
Mr. Trump ridiculed a reporter for having to recant his story and his original claim against Mr. Trump
We, not you, decide how best to serve our readers, listeners, and viewers.
And if we decide to lie and distort the truth there is nothing you can do about it.
...except go directly to the people.
“...the Constitution protects the freedom of the press ... regular press conferences aren’t enshrined in the document.”
Now, we all can agree with that.
President Trump will have to teach the babies with some hard knocks. Maybe then they’ll have something worthwhile to hang on their wall.
“...essentially, they’re saying that they have all the power, and Trump has none.”
Well, they created Obama out of whole cloth and got him elected twice, so they feel emboldened, important, and relevant. They have been raised on the idea of “setting the agenda” and they will not give that up without a fight. To them, the agenda is everything; facts, the truth, integrity, and decency? Just words in a dictionary.
What the hell is a “press corps”?
We need an army to get news?
No, we will set the rules, you follow and then we can talk about the good old lying days.
If we needed the “press corps” to ge news, then we are royally screwed. One does not get news from the “press corps”. What one gets is Democrat talking points and propaganda, a/k/a lies.
No on needs “reporters” that are nothing but political party propagandists.
We especially do not need reporters when the Internet allows the president to post relevant information to a web site. Who needs someone to read that and reprint their biased political viewpoint??
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