I don't admire or respect members of the DC press corps who don't ask hard questions or follow ups

[stopbush]

I don’t admire them for just being in the room, for letting his lies go unchallenged in real time, for allowing tRumpian dodges like “many people are saying” and “we’ll see what happens” and “I never said that” slide by without them expressing the DC press version of “are you fucking kidding me, you lying scumball?”

I don’t care about your having “access” if you refuse to use that access to hold that asshole to account. I don’t find you to be “acting professionally” when he hurls personal insults your way and you just sit there and take it with a glance down to your empty notepad. I don’t find admirable your inability to call out bothsiderism, false equivalencies and whataboutisms when they spew forth from his sphincter mouth.

You are the fucking PRESS. The goddamned Fourth Estate. Do your fucking jobs and let the chips fall where they may. If that’s too much to ask, then at least stop enabling this lunatic by acting as WILLING foils for his daily pile of steaming bullshit.

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

[jrthin]

1. Generally speaking, they are worthless.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. they have shown themselves, over the last 3.5 years, to be one of the following..

cowards
totally living in an affluent bubble
or stupid.

[kentuck]

3. They are very weak.

At least, most of them that cover the White House, in my opinion.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. they are completely overmatched. they cover orangeasshole like he

is a typical president.

[SoonerPride]

11. This. They continue to defer to the office when he is unfit for such white glove treatment.

It is a farce.

[CatMor]

5. They shouldn't even bother to show up ...

all they do is enable him to spew his lies.

[Midnight Writer]

9. Exactly. They should have a pool of maybe three in case something is newsworthy.

They sure the hell should not be giving this lunatic a daily live platform to spew lies.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. tRump controls their mics to disallow follow-up. I so admire the press for standing up &

persevering in the face of his bullying. They really have no choice but to "take it" and press forward with their questions with dignity - shouting when necessary because their mic has been turned down. I very much admire the press.

[stopbush]

7. I don't. Not the way they roll over for that asshole.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

8. trump hates them too. They are always walking a fine line. nt

[stopbush]

13. I didn't say I hate them. I said I don't admire them. Big difference.

[uponit7771]

14. Then they should work together, the fact that they don't is a part of the problem now when 10s of ..

... thousands of people are dying weekly

[HarlanPepper]

16. +1

The content of the OP is deeply uninformed about how the media works etc.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

17. And because of that lack of informed understanding,

the press becomes easy to criticize. I have family members who SHOUT at the telly, at the reporters. It's just their way of venting their bile, because, basically, the entire nation seems to think trumpie is teflon. And face it, WHAT sticks to him ? I understand their frustration.

[SoonerPride]

10. Beat reporters who cover the NBA and NFL ask tougher questions. I'm not kidding.

They won't take bullshit answers from stars or coaches.

They hound them.

The Washington press corps are lapdogs.

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[dlk]

12. They are homogenized and bland

They provide pablum for the masses.