Trump Just Blacklisted Media Outlets. We Warned You This Would Happen.

[yuiyoshida]

Hours after President Donald Trump denounced critical journalists as “the enemy of the people” before a cheering crowd of supporters, major news outlets were blacklisted from a White House press gaggle while the administration’s sycophants were ushered in.

“CNN was not permitted to attend, along with the New York Times, Politico, Buzzfeed and much of the foreign press that regularly attends White House briefings,” CNN reported. Instead, White House press secretary Sean Spicer found room for the pro-Trump outlets Breitbart.com, The Washington Times, and One America News Network.

The restrictions mark the return of the Trump campaign’s strategy of revoking reporters’ press credentials and denying them access to events following unfavorable coverage of the now-president.

They also cap off a week of vitriolic attacks on the press from Trump’s administration. Last Friday, Trump tweeted that “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) ... is the enemy of the American People!” Spicer and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus have since defended Trump’s comments, blaming the media for failing to be fair to the president.

Yesterday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), White House chief strategist and former Breitbart chief Stephen Bannon referred (again) to the press as “the opposition party,” telling the audience that the administration’s feud with the “corporatist, globalist” media will only get worse because they are “adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/24/trump-just-blacklisted-media-outlets-we-warned-you-would-happen/215456

[BeckyDem]

1. Come on Republicans, any of you going to speak up?

This is not funny and where does he think he's going with this?

[world wide wally]

2. Just publish what you can learn, media.

And realize that he is your ENEMY as well as ours.

[heaven05]

3. 59million+ voters

asked for this upcoming dictatorship....I needed no warning because I didn't waste my vote and when it became clear that it was cast on the alleged losing side....the bannon triumvirate of he, miller and their boy-potus puppet let me know, it really is a racist culture wishing ALL people of color death or groveling servitude to the new white masters of the fucking universe. AmeriKKKans who voted for the KKK triumvirate will get what they deserve...all we can do is resist and persist.

[Pathwalker]

4. Then just stop airing it! Why show this propaganda show,

where no truth is allowed, only blind compliance with The Orange Snowflake!

[lpbk2713]

5. Next Trump will be wanting us to call him Dear Leader.

The similarities get closer every day.


From the link: "The good news is that The Associated Press and Time magazine reportedly stood up for their profession, showed solidarity with their colleagues, and boycotted the gaggle. The bad news is that NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News did not, leaving open the question of whether the administration will face consequences if officials continue to use such tactics to divide and conquer the press."

My respect and admiration go out to AP and Time. The others ... they just want a story at any price.

[yuiyoshida]

7. Well, He says he is THE GREATEST... what happens when he finds out

Kim Jong Un says the same thing....

[Warpy]

6. I wonder how he's going to like the lack of coverage from the media

after nearly two years of having them breathlessly reporting every stupid thing that falls out of his mouth or onto Twitter. He's a creation of the media and my guess is that he's not going to do without them for long.

And no, people are not going to turn to Breitbart for news. It's well known to be a radical right site pumping out phony stories.

[yuiyoshida]

8. Fox News must be ecstatic

They have outlets every where anyway... It would be great if people would just boycott them totally, and protest in front of their offices in downtown NYC.

[Phoenix61]

9. So I don't get to watch Spicer lie

or read about the lies he told. More time for them to find the links between 45 and Russia.

[yuiyoshida]

10. And we don't have to look at KellyAnne Conway's

ugly mug!

[Cooley Hurd]

11. On a lighter note, SNL is LIVE tomorrow night...

How will "Spicey" treat the correspondents that were banned today? Run them out (or over) with his podium-on-a-segway?

[EarthFirst]

13. Hopefully it's not another re-run...

They had a a solid two week run and the highest viewership in years, and followed up with a re-run.

Come on, SNL!

We're counting on you!

[Cooley Hurd]

14. SHIT! It is...

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live

[EarthFirst]

15. Boo! Hiss! nt

[HipChick]

18. Thank you...SNL is going to be turning up the heat

[lunatica]

12. Yeah sure. Now we'll never hear anything about him

We wish....

The best of the media may be banned from the White House Press but that won't stop the truth from coming out. Who needs Sean Spicer when the Administration. the intelligence agencies and the FBI are leaking so much?

[Amaryllis]

16. Relevant thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016179197

[Gabi Hayes]

17. yeah....great job back in 01-03, holding the cheney admin's feet to the fire..... check this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017425583