White House bars multiple news outlets from press briefings

[Theater_Nerd]

Posted: 2/24/17 at 2:31pm

The fascist, dictatorship continues rolling right along, silencing anyone and everyone that does not tow the party line. 

Among the media outlets barred:

New York Daily News

New York Times

CNN 

Full report here

[South Florida]

Posted: 2/24/17 at 2:40pm

This is really gonna backfire.  What are they thinking?

 

[Petralicious]

Posted: 2/24/17 at 3:04pm

I am all for bashing the awful media, but this is not smart. Not sure what they hope to accomplish by this. 

[Theater_Nerd]

Posted: 2/24/17 at 3:20pm

Hi South Florida,

This administration is enraged that they are being exposed so anything that has been reported that is in opposition has been branded "fake news" even when it isn't.

Censorship is the logical next step in their process.

 

[madbrian]

Posted: 2/24/17 at 3:27pm

American Fascism. 

[Theater_Nerd]

Posted: 2/24/17 at 3:46pm

Hello madbrian,

Yes. Unfortunately that is exactly what it is. 

Interestingly enough when discussing the very subject of banning media outlets from the White House briefing room Sean Spicer said that Trump would not do it.

This was reported by Politico, one of the banned media outlets back in December. The article can be found here.

Spicer also stated in a televised interview that Trump's White House would not ban specific media outlets because "that's what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship."

The only people that are being fake is the Trump administration. 

 

 

[Islander_fan]

Posted: 2/25/17 at 1:33am

You know that this is a very bad situation when a fellow Republican, a very well regarded one at that, comes out strongly agains Trump. 

 

McCane "Dictators get started by suppressing free press"

[adamgreer]

Posted: 2/25/17 at 7:49am

My big issue with McCain is that his words do not match his actions and votes. He talks a big game, but voted yes to confirm all these idiotic cabinet appointments.