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An open letter to Trump from the US press corps
Columbia Journalism Review ^ | January 17, 2017 | Kyle Pope

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: journalism; mainstreammedia; openletters; presscorps; trump; trumpmedia; trumptransition
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Snowflakes got the message. You’re fired!


41 posted on 01/18/2017 6:59:32 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Lopeover

I agree with you. It’s a crazy thing to trust your enemies in your own house.


42 posted on 01/18/2017 6:59:57 AM PST by xzins (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Two words for the Columbia School of Communism: Twitter Account!


43 posted on 01/18/2017 7:01:00 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: xzins
Even if the media were totally balanced, I still wouldn’t want a gaggle of reporters in the house where my family is supposed to live. A nearby media center would be just fine.

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.

44 posted on 01/18/2017 7:01:23 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Trumps response-”I won, my house, my rules”


45 posted on 01/18/2017 7:02:50 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: mbarker12474

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.
_____________________________________

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.


46 posted on 01/18/2017 7:04:34 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: grobdriver

And may I simply say.....
“pack up all your cares and woes,
hit the pike,
there you go!
Bye-bye, press corps...”


47 posted on 01/18/2017 7:04:42 AM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

The winning is so much fun.

5.56mm


48 posted on 01/18/2017 7:05:14 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: DiogenesLamp

I agree.

A boot in the ass on the way out.


49 posted on 01/18/2017 7:05:19 AM PST by xzins (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
"You’ve ridiculed a reporter who wrote something you didn’t like because he has a disability."

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

50 posted on 01/18/2017 7:06:16 AM PST by saywhatagain
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To: Ciaphas Cain

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.


51 posted on 01/18/2017 7:06:42 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“...the Constitution protects the freedom of the press ... regular press conferences aren’t enshrined in the document.”

Now, we all can agree with that.


52 posted on 01/18/2017 7:08:02 AM PST by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
You’ve ridiculed a reporter who wrote something you didn’t like because he has a disability.

If they can't write coherent sentences at that level, what good are they? Do they really mean to say that the reporter wrote something that Trump didn't like because he has a disability, implying he would have written differently if he HADN'T had a disability?
53 posted on 01/18/2017 7:12:30 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

President Trump will have to teach the babies with some hard knocks. Maybe then they’ll have something worthwhile to hang on their wall.


54 posted on 01/18/2017 7:13:07 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: euram

“...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.


55 posted on 01/18/2017 7:13:08 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

What the hell is a “press corps”?

We need an army to get news?


56 posted on 01/18/2017 7:13:13 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Ciaphas Cain

No, we will set the rules, you follow and then we can talk about the good old lying days.


57 posted on 01/18/2017 7:14:21 AM PST by mulligan
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To: Ciaphas Cain

58 posted on 01/18/2017 7:15:07 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: VanDeKoik

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.


59 posted on 01/18/2017 7:16:49 AM PST by sport
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To: Ciaphas Cain

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??


60 posted on 01/18/2017 7:17:22 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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