yeah the mistake they made was assuming their colleagues would have some bare minimum of professional pride or backbone
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Brian Stelter
For the past week The AP has been trying to engage the Trump WH re: the "Gulf" ban. Today, I'm told, AP exec editor Julie Pace sat down with WH chief of staff Susie Wiles. AP is not wavering re: its editorial independence, so it seems unlikely anything was achieved in the meeting
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Almost as bad as letting self-serving governments do it.
Which is almost as bad as letting corrupt governments manipulate media corps.......
Hmmm...
the rest are cowards who are more interested in being a propaganda arm for the fascist takeover of American Democracy
People are more productive when they self-motivate. The tradeoff is that no central authority gets to tell them what to produce, but if adopted society-wide there would ideally be big enough gains across all fields to make up for lack of centralization.
His ideal government is basically the CCP.
The purple who own the media make sure that only people who share their world view are employed as journalists.
I don't think it needs to be elitist or grandiose; some of the best professionals I know are incredibly humble. What matters isn't them.... it's the work. And they matter in how they do it.
And that's appropriate! There are people's lives in our hands.
Science has the same sense, but less ritualized.
(I'm not Canadian. I've always thought that was cool.)
So what if they can’t have a precious seat at the WH briefings. They are BS anyway…lies, lies, and more lies. Good riddance