Trump White House Bars News Organizations From Press Briefing

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  1. kluke

    kluke Founding Member

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    A news organization is dishonest you get bad reporting, misinformation, and confusion; they have no power. A politician is dishonest you get third world type government. A powerful politician, lets just say president, is dishonest and they have the power to destroy lives, change history, and start wars. The more powerful the politician the more I want someone looking up his ass. Even if I don't like the person looking up the ass, I want them there.

    I don't trust either one; but historically power corrupts more that getting exclusive stories corrupts.
     
    kluke, Feb 25, 2017
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    The answer doesn't change for me. I neither trust nor believe the press or the politicians. I trust my own common sense, my own intelligence, and outcomes based on experience.

    There is a whole lot of shit being thrown around headlines right now about Trump and his violating freedom of the press under the First Amendment. And yet, that has not happened. The media has never reacted this nutty despite an even more restrictive administration. They are in fact, creating fake news. I would prefer Donald get to governing and quit getting in the mud with pigs but that's who he is. And nobody should be surprised.
     
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  3. uscvball

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    No power when they are giving misinformation, lies, and intentional manipulative reports? False.

    George Soros is probably the most powerful and manipulative human evil on the left. He isn't the President but he wields his money and power just the same.
     
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    LSUTiga TF Pubic Relations

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    Don't try to get cute with me. :D
     
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  5. kluke

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    And yet Trump is president; and the congress is Republican; and the statehouses are Republican; and George Soros favorite party is in train wreck mode. George must have a pretty small package.
     
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    Censorship, as it relates to a free press, is the use of authority outside the press to unduly influence what is reported. Denial of access does not constitute censorship - you can't censor what hasn't been written. As for investigative, or whistleblower type stories, neither of those are ever generated through press conferences, so Trump's refusal to talk to any media representative would not stop that line of reporting, at least not for a talented reporter. Woodward and Bernstein never interviewed Nixon before blowing the lid off Watergate.
     
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  8. uscvball

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    Because Trump called them out for the shitholes they are. It's something Romney could and should have done but he didn't have the stones. For every action....the Dems reaped what they sowed. People got pissed off. So now, the Dems with the outrageously shameless media, are doing their level best to make Trump something he isn't. Don't get me wrong, he could screw himself pretty bad but they are distorting like never before. Every headline, every front page photo, every byline....it's relentlessly annoying and I am so over it!

    I don't even care what's going on in Washington at this point. I know what is being reported isn't factual. I know Trump is getting some shit done so I'll sit back and see what comes of it but worrying about the media isn't going to take up any of my time. I'm still waiting for ONE example of where Trump has violated a First Amendment right to free press.
     
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    COTiger 2010 Bowl Pick 'Em Champ

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    You're in for a hell of a wait.
     
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    Oh, and I forgot to discuss one other outlet that Spicer didn't include in the brief....Buzz Feed.

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