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CNN: White house blocking them and other news outlets from attending press briefing!
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And now...where we are.
Master Yoshi
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I cannot believe reality anymore.
They're not being prevented from reporting on what happens there, they're just being prevented from entry. Again, that's fucked up but not strictly illegal.
BronsonLee
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Of course they did
This whole administration is basically The Overstep Initiative
Impressive, he's going through the populist's policies list faster than I expected.
Yep, he's still rough around the edges when it comes to explaining why he does what he does, but it's his first month so he gets a pass.
Glass Shark
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It's a nice idea, but it doesn't really hold water. By this logic, you'd have to let anyone into a press briefing who calls themselves a journalist, otherwise you're "blocking the press."
Man-is-Obsolete
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This is terrible. The worst part about this is that they likely want these publications to report on this and be outraged by it so that the people that already hate or dislike the media will see them as spoiled brats complaining they can't get access. Media is in a lose-lose situation.
Saint Gregory
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Yeah, while I fear for the future of our democracy (and lives in general) I don't feel a bit sorry for the media. They invited this by putting ratings above decency and honesty during the campaign. Next time don't spend the last two weeks of a presidential campaign reporting almost exclusively on right wing propaganda in order to create a fake horse race and drum up viewership.
SerTapTap
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'Yellow Snowflake' is the best I've heard
It's funny how anti-CNN Trump is when they pushed the email shit up hill for him all of last year.
And absolutely nothing that is going on here contradicts that at all.
This is petty, slimy, etc., but in no way is it "unconstitutional".
this is no longer up for question, they are cockroaches
George Washington
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OP, could you edit this in?
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/media/cnn-blocked-white-house-gaggle/
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Thank you.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/media/cnn-blocked-white-house-gaggle/
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Thank you.
sunshine and gasoline
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It is a scumbag move for certain but all this does is make it harder for CNN to report on certain things because they are unable to ask questions during the press briefings.
Truth.
How can the Nazis stand by and watch Nazi occurrences?
KernelPanic
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It's not like they get an honest answer or anything.
Doctoglethorpe
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I really need to stop reading twitter replies. Place has become a cesspool of fascist morons.
They're still getting record high ratings, though.
This could be interpreted as government interference and constraint, however. I'm not a judge though
I'm not sure if you meant this as a rhetorical question, but it's so it gets buried over the weekend and people forget about it by Monday I assume. It would also be harder to quickly react with legal action if they do something awful on a Friday, though people managed to at least get something done with the immigration order.
Glass Shark
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Classic business tactic. Release bad news on a Friday, hope investors will forget about it by Monday when the markets open. But... it doesn't exactly work when not applied to a publicly-traded company.
they haven't been stopped from doing any of those things (yet)
Nowhere in that quote, which isn't the actual text of the amendment mind you, does it say the press has to be invited to the white house. It says right there that it is about expression and dissemination of information, not collection of it
the tradition only started in the 1900s
He takes weekends off so he has the weekend to let things die down. We've got a 9-5 president
Darth Pinche
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Basically the Trump administration not thinking things through again. The more they push the press out, the more they will alienate everyone, except the fringe radicals.
One theory is that Jared is getting ready for the Sabbath and he's not there to soothe the monster when he gets his urges.
fluffydelusions
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Yeah, I don't expect them to do the right thing but it would be nice.
Unless the White House is compelled by the First Amendment to provide these briefings - and they aren't - then there's no violation here.
Slackbladder
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I am also hoping foreign press like the BBC boycott the White House. In fact I want no Press anywhere to publish ANYTHING from the White House. It won't happen but I can dream.
RPGCrazied
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How CNN still employs him after all this is simply mind blowing, and that blonde haired girl.
It's more about delegitimizing the press we know and to establish a new reality where there are no facts to report, just blogs and "alternative" "media" outlets and their perspectives which we have to consider the same way as the NYT for example. If Trump continues to attack quality media outlets and to speak in favor of Breitbart and co. his supporters will start to only believe Breitbart and TrumpTV and whatever he tweets.
Give him some time and everybody will read alt-right sources.
Any such ruling would be partisan or overreaching as fuck.
Basically: do all media outlets that request access to the White House deserve it? If Kotaku wants in OK the press briefing, should they be required to be admitted?
Skellig Gra
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No you don't want that. Then no one has any idea about all the horrible shit going down.
Dead Prince
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well trump already made comments about bbc the day they let him talk by himself. lol. let's see how foreign press have to say about this.
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