Journalists locked out of Trump appearance at economic summit

[demmiblue]

Source: Politico

DANANG, Vietnam — Nearly all U.S. journalists covering U.S. President Donald Trump’s appearance at a major economic summit in Vietnam were barred from attending key events Friday and Saturday, including photo-ops featuring interactions between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The small group of U.S.-based reporters who track Trump’s movements abroad, known as the travel pool, was largely relegated to a holding room on Saturday while nearly two dozen world leaders posed for photographs and mingled at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Danang.

A Fox News video crew and an official White House photographer were granted access to the meetings. Fox was the news organization that was tasked with providing pool video to other news outlets. But the rest of the pool reporters, including independent photographers from U.S. news organizations, were blocked from covering the event.

A similar situation unfolded Friday night, when planned coverage of an APEC dinner with Trump and other leaders was scrapped, leaving print reporters, photographers and other members of the pool without the ability to cover the event.

Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/journalist-locked-out-of-trump-appearance-at-economic-summit/

[Irish_Dem]

1. So Fox is now the official propaganda arm of the Trump dictatorship? nt

[lark]

7. Always has been.

This is the anti-democratic anti-truth administration.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Fox represents only ONE of the opposing viewpoints of Trump-chosen journalists.

They are balanced by the excellent reporting from Breitbart.

Fair, and balanced.

[WhiteTara]

12. Wait until the Sinclair deal

then we get a whole channel devoted to nothing but Trump.

[Irish_Dem]

13. This turned my stomach. nt

[mdbl]

2. So Fox is truly the TAS of America now

it's nice to know our government doesn't give a shit about the constitution. Sounds liike SOLID grounds for impeachment to me. If trump is so stupid and/or corrupt that they won't let him be scrutinized by the media, then he should not be in office, period.

[KPN]

3. Are there no legal steps that can be taken

against this stuff? This needs to be challenged stridently; powerfully.

[mia]

4. At least we have The Guardian

Trump and Putin seem to be understanding one another very well in the video.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/nov/11/trump-and-putin-chat-at-apec-summit-video

[sharedvalues]

5. Journalists worked up about access - not worked up about lies

I’d much rather the journalists get worked up when Trump lies to them, than get worked up when they are denied access.

Where is the outrage at the Trump and Huckabee Sanders daily lies? It takes being locked out of a meeting in Vietnam to get outrage from photographers?

[Marthe48]

6. will orange jelly get the respect he deserves

from the foreign journalists covering the events? I certainly hope so. <sarcasm>

[Plucketeer]

8. And ALL these firearms

being bought by the BOATLOAD under the premise of protecting our country and democracy - keeping us safe in case of an attempted takeover. What a fucking IRONY! WHAT A FUCKING IRONY!!!

[SunSeeker]

9. Trump doesn't want coverage of his treason.

[flying_wahini]

10. Guess most of the free world missed it then, cuz we ain't watching godamn Fox News.

That Trump is one mean MF.
I keep thinking he's gonna have plenty of time for remorse behind bars.