• kn0wmad1c
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    2211 hours ago

    Oh, look, Trump is trampling on the first amendment again

  • @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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    White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the White House would now determine which outlets will be members of the press pool, the smaller group of journalists who are allowed in to events in the Oval Office or travel with the president on Air Force One.

    For decades, the White House Correspondents’ Association has handled the logistics of the press pool, including determining which outlets will be assigned for duty and when they will participate. The set up designed to prevent an administration from retaliating against journalists whose coverage they disfavor.

    Oh, gosh, they’re dismantling a system set up to prevent an administration from retaliating against journalists whose coverage they disfavor, after a group of journalists covered them in a way they didn’t favor? Surely they have innocent motives here.

  • MedicsOfAnarchy
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    Then the “out” press pool can just make stuff up, since they have to guess. “Donald Trump walked out of the bathroom and into a press briefing one hour ago. While we don’t know what the press briefing is about, we can state that before going to the bathroom Trump was seen finishing a cheeseburger. Walking out, he was seen licking his fingers. Our reporter notes that there was no sound of running water prior to Trump’s emergence from the bathroom.”

    • @[email protected]
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      713 hours ago

      The great thing about this is it’s always going to be reported first also since the stories can be prepared ahead of time.

  • @[email protected]
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    I don’t think this term was as profitable for the media companies as last term. You got him elected and blocked journalism is the result. So you’re traitors that have caused their own demise.

    I hope you fix it for all of our sake, but you need to look at what you have done.

    Edit: And still are doing.

  • @[email protected]
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    “We’re going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it’s the Gulf of America,” Mr. Trump said Tuesday.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/associated-press-sues-trump-officials-over-coverage-restrictions/

    But he urged the Trump administration to reconsider its two-week-old ban, saying that case law “is uniformly unhelpful to the White House.”

    https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/judge-rejects-immediately-restoring-aps-access-to-white-house-but-urges-government-to-reconsider

    When it became clear the first ban would be found illegal, they just try another.

    • @[email protected]
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      2515 hours ago

      If there is no enforcement mechanism to enforcing the law on the executive branch, there is no law.

      • @[email protected]
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        1015 hours ago

        The executive branch is actually supposed to be, yknow, executing the laws. That’s why they are called that.

        • @[email protected]
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          1115 hours ago

          The executive branch is actually supposed to be

          Supposed to is irrelevant. A system that doesn’t have guard rails against what is taking place is a bad system.

            • @[email protected]
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              414 hours ago

              It’s hard to believe that with all of the malicious shitheads we’ve suffered in our politics previously, this buffoon is the guy breaking the system. (I agree with both of you agreeing.)