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Apparently the Donald's press secretary pulled a stunt today and took selected Press Pool members, plus pro Trump outlets, from the daily briefing and moved them to a private setting. Anyone else at the daily press briefing was excluded. When the entire group tried to move with the selected pool, they were blocked.
Bannon said yesterday we "were never going to get our country back. Never". This is another major step in that direction.
Whatever your politics, controlling the Army (cabinet) and now attempting to control the news media are two BIG steps toward an autocratic government. This MUST be stopped before all of our rights are co-opted by a lunatic.
Actually the Obama Administration did the same thing. Much ado about nothing
According to The New York Times: “Fox’s television news competitors refused to go along with a Treasury Department effort on Thursday [October 22, 2009] to exclude Fox from a round of interviews with the executive-pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg that was to be conducted with a ‘pool’ camera crew…”. Fox News Channel’s James Rosen reported this backlash forced the Obama administration to reconsider its position on the matter: “The Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV news network consulted and decided that none of them would interview Feinberg unless Fox was included, and the administration relented…,” reported Rosen. Ultimately, after other media representatives objected, Fox News Channel was allowed to participate in the interviews.
There is a full contingent, of ALL media covering him at CPAC.
Where no questions were allowed. No questions at CPAC. No questions in the James Brady Press Room in the White House. Bannon silenced the press and Spicer got a chance to promote pro-Trump propaganda.
Trump, at CPAC, had a forum to spout his usual BS and lies and act like an unhinged lunatic without those pesky questions from the free press. Which is guaranteed in the First Amendment.
That must make Putin the happiest guy on the planet.
They are ignoring it as hard as they can. But that is what the Deranged do.
The Press Pool is at CPAC covering Trump. Nobody was banned as alleged by the OP.
The CPAC thing is not a press briefing.
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