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Ah. Seems like they're starting on the whole 'first link' thing - Dartz - 02-24-2017
Major news organisations banned from White House press conferences
Report something that makes the administration look bad. Get permanently locked out.
Yeah.
How long before 'fake news' becomes some sort of terrorism or propaganda offence? It's probably perfectly doable......
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- robkelk - 02-25-2017
In a related story, Trump rails against media's use of anonymous sources in CPAC speech
He really doesn't like the Fourth Estate, does he?
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
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- LynnInDenver - 02-25-2017
Yeah, sure, some of those news stories will dry up because the sources don't want their names publicly attached, and the resulting consequences that would be dished out to them. Not because they're "fake". And yet, some people will believe him that anonymous sources aren't real sources. (Note: I'm sure the reporters know full well who their sources are.)
It still hasn't even been a full month. I don't even have a clue as to how bad things are going to be in another 23 months at this point, much less 47, outside of the obvious that there will be no social safety net left.
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- Dartz - 02-25-2017
And now we're up to..... You can't publish a story if you can't name a source shenanigans...
Ah yes. How would that have worked out for, well, just about any major scandal of the last, well, forever?
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- robkelk - 02-26-2017
And now he's snubbing the Press Dinner.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-skip ... -1.3999782
The last President who didn't attend a White House Press dinner was Ronald Reagan, in 1981 - and that was because he had just been shot.
Trump really doesn't like the Fourth Estate, does he?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Dartz - 02-26-2017
Well, he fancies himself a gold-plated member of the second....
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- ordnance11 - 02-27-2017
He's declare war on the purveyor of information and a government branch that weaponizes information for a living.
Oh well. glad I didn't vote for him.
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