Point taken. Not an easy call. But continue the story, Brian: after skipping the photo op, the press doesn't take the day off. It can re-deploy itself. From the Pentagon to the 5th grade teacher, who plans to comply with "Gulf of America?" See, "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send... - ThreadSky

jayrosen.bsky.social • 37 days ago

Point taken. Not an easy call. But continue the story, Brian: after skipping the photo op, the press doesn't take the day off. It can re-deploy itself. From the Pentagon to the 5th grade teacher, who plans to comply with "Gulf of America?"

See, "Send the interns." https://pressthink.org/2017/01/send-the-interns/

Reposted from Brian Stelter

Consider the possibility that the Trump White House WANTS this fight. Wants journalists to act like opponents instead of observers. If the entire press pool skipped a Trump photo op in solidarity with The AP, wouldn't the White House welcome Breitbart and One America News to take their places?

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retzim.bsky.social•37 days ago

Such a difficult call if you consider that the Watergate scandal was exposed exclusively by reporters working inside the White House. 🥴

lindarn.bsky.social•37 days ago

They are already there

helgaqn.bsky.social•37 days ago

That's exactly what would happen and quite frankly I'm surprised they aren't already there 😕

jmeijers.bsky.social•37 days ago

They’re already going to do that anyways. So many people and institutions are acting like if they comply just a little Trump won’t do the horrible thing. Trump is going to do the horrible things no matter what so we might as well resist in solidarity.

leontrout.bsky.social•37 days ago

Maybe there will be some serious introspection fina-

Nahhh

ootek.bsky.social•37 days ago

The job of the "press" is to cover stories editors tell them to. Editors tell them to cover the same stories everyone else does. The power of the press, and not just FOX, is the power to influence what people think about. Not how to think about something as much as simply what to think about.

gwbiscuit.bsky.social•37 days ago

Brian really only knows how to lick boots to maintain the access he so craves.

washed-upbrewer.bsky.social•37 days ago

What if people stopped buying eggs for a week?

jaderydererhard.bsky.social•37 days ago

Propaganda gonna lie anyway

ellenenders.bsky.social•36 days ago

I think you made this suggestion during the first DT administration:
News organizations should send interns to these press conferences & send their reporters out to cover administration related news stories

joke2power.bsky.social•37 days ago

THAT's a very good point. The WH press corps got what they wanted, an exciting presidency. It just so happens it may be our last. I just wish msm reported from the WH as if they cared if our republic survived. The obeying in advance is enraging. Please ... if it's that bad ... "Send the interns"

marvelle.bsky.social•37 days ago

Brian, who worked at CNN in 2017, know Trump did this already when he banned NYT, CNN, Buzzfeed, etc and let in OAN and Breitbart. This seems disingenuous.

sheilacanavan1.bsky.social•37 days ago

same applies to democratic leaders

davidakaye.bsky.social•37 days ago

by the way the choice presented - opponents rather than observers - is itself absurd. journalists are not stenographers but watchdogs. if the WH doesn't like that, if they just want propagandists in the room, everyone with integrity should bail.

openpolicy.bsky.social•37 days ago

Come to New Zealand, where much of the political press corp are stenographers rather than journalists, particularly when the government’s actions align with the views of our tiny pool of media owners.

thenoteheleft.bsky.social•37 days ago

Access, clicks, cash rule the day.

tonysomo.bsky.social•37 days ago

The minute journalists formulate questions, they are no longer “observers”.
What a bizarre view of journalism.

lajoiemedia.bsky.social•37 days ago

At this point, don't even send the interns. Just pull out. The whole thing loses its relevance if the press isn't there. Let them fill the room with sycophantic pseudo-press. That won't help them one bit because they'll just be preaching to the choir and they'll have no one to publicly abuse.

yoclockface.bsky.social•37 days ago

Brian was committing false equivalence in '16 w 'her emaisl' vs one hundred trump crimes every day, gets canned, falls up and back into his job, w lil change. They already send in toddlers, see the last 8 years, how would we know?

jaytingle.bsky.social•37 days ago

Who is paying Stelter?

se7en-driver.bsky.social•37 days ago

I have been wondering something along these lines. That is, if being ousted from the WH official press may only cause AP to redouble its efforts to recruit unofficial sources and actually lead to more scoops about shenanigans.

se7en-driver.bsky.social•37 days ago

Wired, for instance, has no presence in the WH press corps as far as I know, but is indisputably the early champ in reporting about all this bullshit.

jayrosen.bsky.social•37 days ago

Yep. I wrote about this in the days of Sean Spicer. "Send the interns." https://pressthink.org/2017/01/send-the-interns/

se7en-driver.bsky.social•37 days ago

oops, I should have read your link before replying! :)

victoriadahl.bsky.social•37 days ago

Yes!!!

revkin.bsky.social•37 days ago

And continue the story to new proclamations. When Trump and minions proclaim Greenland is now “red white and blueland”… when Trump proclaims that Russian-occupied Ukraine is no longer Ukraine… what do the media do - agreed to those terms so they can stay in the briefing room?

baertini.bsky.social•37 days ago

Americans have lost their ability to act collectively. We can't imagine how to join together in shared interest for any reason.

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