I don't want to see anyone denied media access regardless of their political leanings. But I also don't have any problem with requiring reporters to apply for a day pass if they show up a handful of times per year. This is pretty common practice in other areas.
Press secretary purges most of the free press from the WH
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The WH is not open to the public like some library. And the WH has the right to deny access for any reason or no reason at all. Freedom of the press means these political activists posing as journalists can say or write anything their little minds can dream up. It does not give them ownership of any public area including the WH.They don't make the rules and have needed a bitch slapping for a long time.
This isn't Raytheon, it isn't Buckingham palace, it's the people's White House and Trump is a tenant. They doesn't get to rewrite the rules of the landlord (freedom of the press) just because Sander's on the rag.
I will save and record all of this when the Dems start banning Fox and Tucker Carlson loses his shit.
As you said you people are narrow minded in your view that the result suits you but you forget under the law you just set precedent of excluding or going after press because you don't like thier bias. All media has bias and someday the party on the opposite side of the media you prefer because it suits your bias will be the target and then what will you do...
You do that and note I made no distinction between any media source or network. They all need a thorough cleansing. Also note that while FOX has plenty of shit in their game, they are one network. Leftists have armies of activists posing as journalists making them much more of a threat to truth just considering their shear numbers.
Yeah I agree the CNN, MSNBC, and print media far outweighs the FOXs of the world but this should not be the means to "equalize" in a way because it is a double edged sword.
Journalism has changed when the internet and social media became central in all of this and that rabbit is never going back in the hat sadly. Anyone with a computer can not only have an opinion but express it to a broad audience making us all basically equal to Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson without having to have a show.
The fact that a President tweets heavily and everyone else feels the need to tweet and retweet and Congress members feel they must tweet or risk not being the center of attention for 5 minutes is really sad.
The irony is that this is not new and goes back to Washington but waht happened then was almost worse:
The National Gazette was founded at the urging of Republican leaders James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in order to counter the influence of the rival Federalist newspaper, the Gazette of the United States. Not unlike other papers of the era, the National Gazette centered on its fervent political content. The Gazette's political content was often written pseudonymously, and was directed against the Federalist Party. Many prominent Republicans contributed articles, often pseudonymously, including Madison and Jefferson.
The Gazette is unique among early American partisan newspapers for being substantially supported by a major player within a sitting Administration (then Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson) while simultaneously attacking that Administration's own policies. Jefferson enticed Freneau to come to Philadelphia to edit the Gazette by hiring him as a translator at the United States Department of State for an annual salary of $250. Federalist writers, including Alexander Hamilton, attacked this as a conflict of interest. Hamilton and other Federalists also financially supported their own partisan newspaper, the Gazette of the United States, although their publication did not attack Washington and his policies, but praised them effusively.
The really sad thing is that there are a lot of things going on in the world but the average American can never really know because there is no where to tune in and find out. My desire for knowledge about the world is quashed everytime I scan the news.
CNN is by far the worst of the all.
Journalism has changed when the internet and social media became central in all of this and that rabbit is never going back in the hat sadly. Anyone with a computer can not only have an opinion but express it to a broad audience making us all basically equal to Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson without having to have a show.
The fact that a President tweets heavily and everyone else feels the need to tweet and retweet and Congress members feel they must tweet or risk not being the center of attention for 5 minutes is really sad.
The irony is that this is not new and goes back to Washington but waht happened then was almost worse:
The National Gazette was founded at the urging of Republican leaders James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in order to counter the influence of the rival Federalist newspaper, the Gazette of the United States. Not unlike other papers of the era, the National Gazette centered on its fervent political content. The Gazette's political content was often written pseudonymously, and was directed against the Federalist Party. Many prominent Republicans contributed articles, often pseudonymously, including Madison and Jefferson.
The Gazette is unique among early American partisan newspapers for being substantially supported by a major player within a sitting Administration (then Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson) while simultaneously attacking that Administration's own policies. Jefferson enticed Freneau to come to Philadelphia to edit the Gazette by hiring him as a translator at the United States Department of State for an annual salary of $250. Federalist writers, including Alexander Hamilton, attacked this as a conflict of interest. Hamilton and other Federalists also financially supported their own partisan newspaper, the Gazette of the United States, although their publication did not attack Washington and his policies, but praised them effusively.
The really sad thing is that there are a lot of things going on in the world but the average American can never really know because there is no where to tune in and find out. My desire for knowledge about the world is quashed everytime I scan the news.
CNN is by far the worst of the all.
Like when the Obama White House said Fox News was not a legitimate news source? or When Earnest restricted Fox News from access? Or when the Obama Justice Department labeled Fox News a "co-conspirator"?
Yes they are all bad...see. But it is one thing for someone to say something about a news site, it is another to take actual steps to remove them. Both bad but obviously there is a difference between speech and action.
Oh, Obama took action.
Through his lackeys he had James Rosen-Fox News reporter- wiretapped/surveilled as a national security threat.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...s-trump-is-very-bad-for-criticizing-newsrooms