Wasn't freedom of speech a huge deal with these guys?... Now its controlled speech?... How is this legal? How is this real?
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The right likes to appropriate populist ideas to push through unpopular ones...
Surprise, it was freeze peaches the whole time just like every leftist ever scrawled about it.
How is this legal?
Having a spot in the white house press pool is legally a privilege, not a right. The AP can still operate and write whatever they like, they're just not invited to exclusive press briefings.
This is a long-standing conflict of interest that incentivizes the press to field softball questions and avoid writing critical stories in hopes of getting priority treatment from the government, but typically it works in a more subtle way.
So this unshackles the AP from bias in their reporting?
I mean, I guess you could look at it that way, to an extent. But the larger effect is that it reinforces the threat against every other major news outlet, in a very blunt and overt way.
I don't expect the AP to suddenly radicalize over it or anything.
I said it before and I will keep saying it. Any legitimate outlet would be boycotting the Whitehouse in solidarity with the AP till the AP is allowed back in. If you aren't allowed to push back against their lies and misinformation without fear of reprisals. Then what's the point of attending? You're just giving legitimacy to the propaganda. Walk away and let it devolve into an embarrassing circus of no names and bigots whom no one respects.
I don’t think there are many legitimate outlets. The ones that are probably aren’t on their radar because they lack influence.
CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC Etc are still there I'm sure
You said legitimate outlets.
Yes they like to pretend. But that's the point. They are all still there. And in my view if they ever were truly legitimate. Are clearly not at this point
That's a terrible idea. We need real news reporting on their going ons.
You're just giving legitimacy to the propaganda
No, it's reporting on what they're saying. And what they say matters, a lot. He's the president. It's not going to devolve into a circus it's going to devolve into genocide and we needs news every step of the way reporting on it.
Trump doesn't give a shit about a boycott. He'd be happy, even.
You don't get "real news reporting" at the subject's press briefing. You get whatever bullshit story the subject wants you to report, and the spin they want you to impart.
Everything that occurs in the press room is complete bullshit.
They can 100% report on the goings on without even being in there. All that's being aired in there are lies.
One of the core tools of fascism and propaganda is repetition. All of these Outlets just reporting what they say, fulfill this succinctly. Fuck what they say. It doesn't mean anything anyway.
And you are right about the fact that Trump won't care in the least. That is undeniably true. And not at all the point of such a boycott. Trump will happily fill it with ass kissers and yes men just like he has everything else. But when that's all that's there. It sort of becomes obvious what a joke it all is. When long time conservatives have to question who the hell cat turd is and what his credentials are to be in the White House Press pool. It will wake a few people up. A few that would never snapped out of it as long as CBS, NBC, ABC continue to let the Whitehouse use whatever reputation these outlets have left to pretend to have any legitimacy.
If you are simply reporting and ultimately repeating what a fascist says. You're part of the problem.
It doesn't mean anything anyway.
It often literally does
If you are simply reporting and ultimately repeating what a fascist says
It's not just repeating if you had detail onto it, of the issues and effects.
Fascists gonna fascist.
It's the current fascion.
Note that all of this is in direct violation of court orders. Just in case you thought the courts meant fucking anything anymore for the ruling regime. And it is a ruling regime at this point.
The administration was not only keeping the AP out of the press pool — the daily rotating group of reporters who get access to Trump in tight spaces that cannot accommodate the entire press corps — but removing the permanent “wire service” spot as well. That means there will no longer be a spot guaranteed for one of the wire services: the AP, Reuters and Bloomberg.
So in other words, the closest thing we have to objective journalism. Weeeee!
basically like SC2 sc2 where mengsk has his goons to suppress the reporters from his administration, and his famous qoute is similar to trumps.
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