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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
"Your campaign tapped into that, and it was a bracing wake-up call for us."

I seriously doubt that the press profits from any mistakes they make. They profit from furthering the liberal agenda. They will lie until the bitter end. So reprobate in mindset are they that there is no possible way that they can redeem themselves. The system now in place must be driven to its metaphorical "knees" and be put to death. It is not a job for the faint of heart and can only be accomplished by a person of great business acumen, with nerves of steel, a disdain for evil-doers and a cool reserve under pressure... Someone like Trump.

81 posted on 01/18/2017 8:07:04 AM PST by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Kyle speaks for The Press Corpse? Let us talk you down big guy. flop sweat photo: flop sweat brooks airplain broadcast2Bairplane2Bsweat.jpg Trying to pad your resume while spouting gibberish is sure to cause flop sweat in a Junior Birdman journalist.
82 posted on 01/18/2017 8:07:49 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: ctdonath2

New White House Press Room!!

83 posted on 01/18/2017 8:13:30 AM PST by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: mbarker12474

Great idea! I have never understood why there was a fixed group either. I would love to see reporters from all over the country, asking questions they think are important. Oh the screeches we would hear if flyover country gets a voice.


84 posted on 01/18/2017 8:16:24 AM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

The mouse is squeaking.


85 posted on 01/18/2017 8:17:14 AM PST by Ciexyz (After eight years of Obama, I can't afford to buy nothin'.)
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To: catman67

Dearest Press Corps: Stop lieing! Being dishonest liars is no way to go through life.


86 posted on 01/18/2017 8:18:31 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Open Letter from Americans to US press corps.

There’s only two kinds of you.
1. Liars.
2. Idiots.

Keep running your suck sumps and remind us to question why you’re even tolerated to live among us.


87 posted on 01/18/2017 8:18:48 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Too funny, I love the sound and smell of libtards heads exploding in the morning.


88 posted on 01/18/2017 8:20:43 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

The press room could have an overflow room where those who don’t make the cut, can watch on TV.


89 posted on 01/18/2017 8:23:54 AM PST by Ciexyz (After eight years of Obama, I can't afford to buy nothin'.)
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To: xzins
Please kick them out of the White House and give them a different building nearby.

Unfortunately, as Drudge reported this morning, Trump has acquiesced to the demands from the MSM that they stay in the WH.

Reuters reports: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to select the media representatives who are given access to the presidential press briefing room, but will not move the room out of the White House, he said in interview with Fox News broadcast on Wednesday.

For me, this is disheartening and a BIG mistake. The opportunity to remove the elitist status of ABCCBSNBCNYTWaPo from their lofty, privileged perch is at hand. They have demonstrated their dishonesty and are undeserving of representing a free press.

In this digital age, there is no need for the press to have a physical presence in the WH. Trump should move them out of the WH to a larger space where more of the (honest) media outlets can have space and equal access. No more "front row" status for ABCCBSNBCNYTWaPo.

If Trump waits, gets burned again and then moves them out (and you know that will happen), it will appear to be way more vindictive than it will if he does it now.

90 posted on 01/18/2017 8:27:12 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Dear Press Corps, you adjust to the president, not vice versa.


91 posted on 01/18/2017 8:33:12 AM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: JohnG45
President-elect Donald Trump plans to select the media representatives who are given access to the presidential press briefing room

This is the key phrase.....DJT will fill the room with who he wants and freeze out the troublemakers and the whiners with "the room just isn't big enough for everyone meme as a cover story, then respond to the complaining with the phrase, "We tried to address this the week before i took the oath of office but the media just seem to think it was a problem then."

92 posted on 01/18/2017 8:47:19 AM PST by thingumbob (I'm a bitter clinger...I dare you to take my gun)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Fake news...LOL.


93 posted on 01/18/2017 9:03:37 AM PST by glasseye
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Open letter from Trump to press corp


94 posted on 01/18/2017 9:12:22 AM PST by Bobalu (See liberal MSM heads explode...make Milo Yiannopoulos Trump's new Press Secretary!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

So when I see the whole argument based upon a fallacious premise, I know the author is an idiot.

“It is, after all, our airtime and column inches that you are seeking to influence.”

See right there you think you are more important than you really are.


95 posted on 01/18/2017 9:58:09 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: Ciaphas Cain

This is so funny. It’s as if they have power to dictate to the President. I smell desperation. And I love that smell.


96 posted on 01/18/2017 10:05:00 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
And we’ll do it through accurate, fearless reporting,

Bullshit. You don't even know what accuracy or fearlessness are.

by acknowledging our errors

Bullshit. There's no time like the present to get started ... and I don't see anything.

and abiding by the most stringent ethical standards we set for ourselves."

Bullshit. You're going to set your own standards? You've been doing that for decades ... it has been worthless.

97 posted on 01/18/2017 10:08:32 AM PST by NorthMountain (Washington Post is Fake News)
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To: xzins
kick them out of the White House and give them NOTHING.
98 posted on 01/18/2017 10:09:28 AM PST by NorthMountain (Washington Post is Fake News)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Dear Press: You don’t like the rules, you don’t have to play.

Thank you and goodnight.


99 posted on 01/18/2017 10:15:29 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Ciaphas Cain
I think we need a letter to those who write Open Letters, and include the following:


100 posted on 01/18/2017 10:21:01 AM PST by Constitution Day (Never begin a vast project with half-vast ideas.)
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