See 1984, Ministry of Truth. Sadly the novel seems to be a how to manual instead of a warning.
White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
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This is exactly the strategy the WH is starting to employ. Look at Russian tactics against the press in 2006-2007 and you can predict the WH next move. They are stealing from their playbook. Revoke. Replace. Erode.
What is the next move?
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
These press briefings provide direct, multilateral, and unmoderated access to the Presidential Administration by the Press Corps. They are incredibly important to holding the administration to account for policy. Can the administration spin their own narrative? Sure, but they can't directly control or audit the questions asked.
Depends on if they start excluding organizations and lining up softballs from cranks.
TRUMP: Wait. Let's see. Who's -- I want to find a friendly reporter.
QUESTION: Mr....
TRUMP: Are you a friendly reporter? Watch how friendly he is. Wait. Wait. Watch how friendly he is. Go ahead.
a few minutes later, with a different reporter:
TRUMP: Now, that's what I call a nice question. That is very -- who are you with?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/donald-trump-news-con...
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I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you, but liberals vote. There's just not enough of them to win Presidential elections decisively by themselves. If you are a liberal, do not fall into the same trap the conservatives did after their loss in 2012. They believed that there was a Missing Conservative Voter Who Stayed Home, who could be won over if the party went further rightward. Ted Cruz bet his whole candidacy o…
Well that's factually incorrect. Democratic turn out was down in 2016.
That doesn't mean liberals don't vote. It may mean other things:
1. Obama voters flipped for Trump (this actually happened in PA)
2. Moderate voters may have stayed home or flipped.
3. Some races were not terribly competitive, so people stayed home even though it would not have mattered for them to vote (e.g. the CA Senate race between two Democrats)
I mean, if you're really a liberal, would you have not voted? Exceptions perhaps being carved out for people who objected specifically to Hillary Clinton because of her other problems... which would mean Democrats need to pick better people as candidates.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on if they start excluding organizations and lining up softballs from cranks.
yes but all Presidents do this, including Obama
Obama complained about Fox news, but he never acted like this.
Who constantly questioned his legitimacy as president, made up the "terrorist fist jab", and gave him shit for asking for fucking dijon mustard.
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You're right in that this does not significantly block NYT, etc.'s ability to gather news (btw you can check the transcripts online: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings ) but it's an important symbolic gesture by the White House. Here's a cool post of how the 49 seats assignments have changed over time: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/25/ho...
Blocking only NYT might not change things significantly, but showing that they will ban anyone who asks difficult questions means the ones who are left will think twice. The ones who keep "misbehaving" will also get banned. That will change things for everyone trying to get news.
The banned parties should make an alternative venue that asks questions of shadow governments. It will be more interesting and erode the Presidents power to choose how to address the people by overshadowing his useless PR and making the other governments easier to imagine.
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#197Maybe this will send a message to said media outlets to stop making crap up and traffic in real issues with some impartial professional journalism that used to occur in this country.
Maybe this will send a message to said media outlets to stop making crap up
I'll bite. Give us some examples, please.
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#198This country appears to be on a very dangerous path. I don't remotely deny Trump and his administration's responsibility and complicity for taking us down this path, but given how widely understood his issues are within mainstream discourse, I wanted to take a step back and critically look at the not-Trump aspects. Firstly, Trump needs to be understood in context as the outsider who none of the establishment took ser…
Nobody had to cast Trump as a "comic-book villain". He did that himself. He ticks every single box on the authoritarian checklist. He's combative and hateful against nearly everyone except Russia and he is demonstrably ignorant and/or misinformed.
These are objective facts. The difference in 2017 is that facts no longer matter. His people are clear in that they value their beliefs more than they value facts.
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#199This story is being actively buried, fyi. [edit: confirmed that it's being flagged. Guess all is normal.]
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Depends on if they start excluding organizations and lining up softballs from cranks.
yes but all Presidents do this, including Obama
Obama didn't exclude news organizations because he didn't like them when he was president as far as I'm aware and if he did I'm going to be just as mad at him as I am at Trump.