NYT exec editor on being blocked from WH press gaggle: "Nothing like this has ever happened at

[riversedge]

umm. did this just happen today??


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NYT exec editor on being blocked from WH press gaggle: "Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history..."

[sunonmars]

1. Then you need to go full on anti-trump or soon YOU wont exist......

Do not mention his name.
Do not report on him unless its to take him down.
Do not attend any of his "pressers"
Watch him like a hawk and report.
Find those tax returns!

[world wide wally]

19. FIGHT! FFS

[MADem]

2. Have you seen the new WH press pass?

[riversedge]

5. ha ha. Well, Breitbart 'journalists' are admitted!!! So, when the shoe fits!!!

[MADem]

10. They're even letting INFOWARS in the door...

Wish they'd credential MAD Magazine....!

[njhoneybadger]

9. That's it

[workinclasszero]

24. Don't forget to Seig Heil

At the press conferences too!

[Paladin]

3. Boycott by all other responsible media, NOW!

I want some meaningful action taken against this tin-pot dictatorship bullshit, and I want it TODAY!

[PatSeg]

23. Absolutely

I was thinking the same thing. Its not like the White House is going to say anything that we won't hear anyway. Let Spicer come out to an almost empty room.

[mwooldri]

31. BBC was excluded. I challenge you to find...

... a BBC report. Since they were excluded, they didn't report on it. Didn't even report their exclusion.

That's how to do it. Press conference is irrelevant.

[politicaljunkie41910]

45. I agree. An attack on one is an attack on all. Today it's the NYT, tomorrow it will be

the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times, etc. If everyone just ignored him, didn't show up to cover his corrupt White House, he would change his tune quickly.

[sunonmars]

4. I mean the fact they put Breitbart on the same level as NYT did not give them a clue

[riversedge]

7. Sorry, but I do not understand your comment. Can you explain please.

[sunonmars]

8. apologies, i corrected it.

[riversedge]

12. Thanks. I suspect--not know for sure that many long terrm WH press journalists are ticked

at having Brietbart amongst them as equals.

[randr]

6. What is of crucial national interest

is the removal of Trump and all his minions

[sunonmars]

11. its harder than you think....

I lived in Turkey for many years on assignment and trust me, i watched that evil permeate and destroy a secular republic, and you would be surprised to how people reacted....

Comments like

"what can I do" "they would never do that"


and now.......beware of sheep, they often will vote for slaughterhouses. Once cancer gets a hold, it hard to cut out.

Trump is a cancer.......we have a huge battle on our hands. You cannot play nice, you need to play dirty to restore democracy or it will be gone.

Trust me I witnessed it upfront and centre.

[BeckyDem]

14. +10. Thank you.

[randr]

17. That is why the sooner the better

[byronius]

28. It's the nature of the tribal/primal human to fall into tarpits like this.

It's why education and critical thinking is so important to societal survival, and why conservatives have attacked these at every opportunity.

[sunonmars]

30. and thats exactly what Erdogan did

Stacked the education regulator, changed the rules, sacked teachers who did comply with AKP teaching or show allegiance, removed foreign teachers and then raided universities and removed rebellious students....

Did exactly the same with the military, purged it and stacked it with his own men, shut down tv channels, stacked the courts with his goons, sfired the police, replaced with idiots with no experience but party loyalists, jailed journalists and made a law that if you criticized him, you went to jail, that his stacked courts put in place.


All coming to a corner near you.

[PatSeg]

34. Yes, Turkey came to my mind

a lot in recent weeks. How many times does this have to happened before people get a clue?

[sunonmars]

39. Lest we forget history, it is doomed to repeat itself.

90% of people are sheep, this is the problem, they want protection and will ignore and give away rights to protect it and have an easy life, except in the end its not an easy life.

They never see the end product of what they vote for.

You know what Erdogan did in the poor areas to get votes. 1 election he got them all the plumbing for washing machines and the like and promised them, vote for me and i'll give you the washing machines next election....and they all went for it. He pulled shit like this everywhere.

With Turkey, they kept the economy doing very well long enough to put all the chess pieces in place and then boom, you wake up and your rights are gone.

Unless the masses get out on the street now, all day, every day, this will not end well.

and every single one of those who sat around and complied with the dictator needs to go and then laws enacted to make sure this never ever happens again.

If the GOP are complicit in this this removal of democracy, then they all need to go and the party censured.

I see what happened in Turkey, happening now in the US, this is becoming a fanatical cult like the AKP , they are promising to die for him, they will do the same for Trump.

Only 2 ways I have seen this kind of dictatorship and i've seen a few of them is either ....

1 : You lose and the country is lost
2 : The dictator swings at the end of a rope or in a ditch or in jail.

The country needs to decide......

[PatSeg]

44. These authoritarian figures

have pretty much done the same things throughout history, so there are no surprises here. People with a reasonable understanding of history, should be able to see what is happening, but unfortunately we are no longer a well educated nation. Democracy can only work when the populace is well educated.

"An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people." Thomas Jefferson

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Well written. +1 . . . nt

[C_U_L8R]

13. They might run a full page headline

in 300 point type... RESIST.

[BeckyDem]

15. Where are all the faux Libertarians, like that Rand Paul to call out this atrocity of an edict?

[workinclasszero]

22. Paul is Trump's biggest buttboy!

He's a damn liar like all the republicans standing by as Trump and Bannon destroy American democracy!

[BeckyDem]

27. He is a fraud if he says nothing or tries to justify this. It is not funny, and it is not

normal. Where is his damn father? Party over country.

[BSdetect]

16. Are they just too stupid to stand up to scrotus?

Can they not see the writing on the walls?

[world wide wally]

18. We have never had a raging fascist as President before.

[workinclasszero]

20. Fascism!

Does everyone realize now what Trump and Bannon are up to?

They are subverting and destroying American democracy in the service of a Russian dictator!

Period!

[marlakay]

21. All media with integrity need to

Immediately stop covering anything Trump related, don't give the bully a pulpit. He is trying to incite a civil war.

Right now left and right can barely speak to each other. He is going down hard on blue states creating a red vs blue worse than its ever been.

[Grammy23]

25. Time to drop the hammer on tRump. Whatever they have on him needs to be released.

He will be begging the media people to tell his side of the story. I hope they freeze his ass out. FBI, CIA, time to fire another shot across the bow to let little Donnie know who he is going to war with.....it ain't gonna be pretty but I am looking forward to the fireworks.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

26. Why is the Washington Post okay to ass-wipe, I have to question their journalist integrity since

the WP is not included on ass-wipe's enemies list???

[ffr]

29. Your Russia/FBI/tRump/GOP collusion stories are cutting too close to home for them.

This is their way to try to tell you to knock it off. They're in charge here.

[Volaris]

37. 'They're in charge here.'

Lol yeah the 4 year old in my house thinks the same thing.

[ffr]

38. Be sure he or she grows out of that.

[Volaris]

46. Oh I assure you it is.

It's happening in small little pieces, but also relentlessly. He's not gonna be his maternal uncle when he's 25...that dude don't even know how to wash his own clothes cause mom still does does it for him.

[colorado_ufo]

32. The Grey Lady brings the weak sauce to the press banquet

while clutching her pearls. Sorry, but this needs to be condemned in the strongest terms possible. The NYT needs to bring it to the table!

[lapucelle]

33. Clinton supporters warned news outlets that they could be next.

They were fine with Trump's abuses when the Democratic nominee was the target. Heck, it was fun! Good times!

They need to learn to take responsibility for their part in the election debacle including their normalization of election strategies that included illegal hacking, foreign manipulation, and FBI interference.

"First they came for the Democratic nominee, and I did not speak out because the narrative sold papers and drove ratings, and besides, it was fun..."

https://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/an-exclusive-arrangement-on-a-clinton-book-and-many-questions/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/public-editor/the-truth-about-false-balance.html

[workinclasszero]

36. Shit yes the news media was overjoyed with the ratings

From Fuhrer Dump!

And emails and Benghazi and the Clinton foundation!

Not the slime ball is out to destroy them, let's see how they like him now the assholes!

[lapucelle]

43. That's why they televised every Trump rally ever day for hours on end,

rather than Hillary's policy speeches and small local gatherings.

And then the media pushed the narrative that Hillary lost because she never reached out to voters or discussed platform and policy. They equate "we failed to report it" with "she never did it".

[workinclasszero]

47. Yup it made me sick

CNN, MSNBC, all of them loved Trump's bigtop circus!

All they ever said about Hillary was lies and disinformation.

[spanone]

35. it is also PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

[LiberalLovinLug]

42. Which will soon be defined by a SCOTUS

soon to have a Trump loyalist as the 9th justice.

[Liberty Belle]

41. Can a lawsuit be filed over violating 1st amendment free press rights -- not just the media,

but citizens suing (hello ACLU?) for having our right to have responsible media covering the White House instead of handpicked propaganda outlets. I believe all of OUR 1st amendment rights are being violated!