It's all about power and propaganda. The Trump White House wants to assert power over the press corps; push the White House Correspondents' Association out of the picture; and promote media outlets that provide sycophancy, not scrutiny.
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I agree with @mollyjongfast.bsky.social who said that ALL MSM should have boycotted these things the minute they made a stink about the AP. Standing together collectively is the only way. They can still boycott - it's not too late. They'll still get the news (if you think you're getting real news)
Note to real journalists: Stop attending daily White House briefings—they are blatantly propagandistic, and to report on them is to become a complicit amplifier. Use your time instead by ferreting truth the hard way, through sources and digging. The country is in real trouble—this is not a drill.
Did you just wake up?? He's been doing this for decades. DON'T TELL US WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW! SPEAK, NO...SCREAM TRUTH TO INSANITY!!
WE NEED PUSH BACK.
NO WHIMPERS!
The honorable media should avoid the press room. What's the value of questioning a representative that's willing to lie and treat you with disrespect?
Access in other areas may be problematic but Trump wants exposure and that is their leverage.
So, we still have a free-ish press, then? It would be cool if the members of the press corps drew numbers and relinquished their spot, if chosen, in favor of their own collegial lottery system.
Is there really any substance provided in the briefing room? I've watched a couple of times and all I've seen is non-informative, misleading statements come from the podium.
I want to hear what the administration is doing, not the spin they are trying to peddle.
Propagandists hired by your employer (Jennings, Urban, Todd, etc) provide a metric ton of sycophancy all day long on CNN and you say nothing. Your words means nothing. You have no integrity. You continue to fail every day in silence rather than speaking up for truth and democracy. Coward.
Wow. Wish reporters got as exercised about real Constitutional violations and actual government abuses as they do about where they sit when they take dictation from the WH.
No respectable news media outlet need attend these "briefings". Let the C-SPAN camera be the source of anything that happens, most of which is nonsense anyway. Let the Nazi Barbie speak to her right-wing MAGA propaganda outlets in isolation.
WHCA members have to start treating Trump and administration as the enemy. Trump sees them as enemy so reciprocate.
Trust me if they could they would hang some on White House lawn
All CNN news ever seem to do is sit in the studio talking to guests and getting people's opinions. Maybe if they got more journalists to ask questions at trumps pantomimes it would have a bigger affect on what people believe. Saying that has he banned their reporters ?
We’ve been trying to tell you but you all are so entrenched in the DC bubble and your need for access that you just don’t ever get it. Unless you totally capitulate to him he will shun you, ridicule you, shame you, lie to you and laugh at you. But instead the press told us we are hysterical idiots.
I cannot imagine a use for the WHCA that doesn’t start and end with an impromptu presser instigated by the assembled journalists demanding answers from Trump until he is driven from the dais.
Yea, but the reporters in that room in January were overheard saying, "We are so back. We are no longer reporting on the old man and his dog. It's exciting."
And your outlet has allows this to go unchecked. I am no longer listening to your so called “news network”. Satisfying coverage of this story on your show is ridiculous with the hope it will meet your low bar Pathetic! ”.
Are you familiar with the Books and work of Bob Altemeyer? He defined right and left wing authoritarian personalities. I think you would really appreciate his insight.
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WE NEED PUSH BACK.
NO WHIMPERS!
Access in other areas may be problematic but Trump wants exposure and that is their leverage.
I want to hear what the administration is doing, not the spin they are trying to peddle.
Trust me if they could they would hang some on White House lawn
Would the old-man baby lose his mind without one day's worth of attention? Let's try and find out.
I cannot imagine a use for the WHCA that doesn’t start and end with an impromptu presser instigated by the assembled journalists demanding answers from Trump until he is driven from the dais.
Anything less is professional surrender.
It's the only way we survive the NAZI MAGAt fascism...