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White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing

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Re: White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing

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Post by eterm »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #45
mtgentry wrote: post #6

Only the AP choose to not attend out of solidarity? Shame on ABC, CBS, and the rest.

I don't recall the NYT, CNN or Politico refusing to attend when Obama kicked the Washington Times and NY Post out. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6156794&pag... Shame on them too?

I'll save everyone the click: It's a false equivalence. Three reporters (total) were dropped from a plane flight, once.

Being held here by yummyfajitas as equivalent to barring whole organisations from a press conference.

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Post by moomin »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #45
mtgentry wrote: post #6

Only the AP choose to not attend out of solidarity? Shame on ABC, CBS, and the rest.

I don't recall the NYT, CNN or Politico refusing to attend when Obama kicked the Washington Times and NY Post out. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6156794&pag... Shame on them too?

If you can't tell the difference between presidential candidate Obama and President Trump there's no helping you.

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Post by yongjik »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #45
mtgentry wrote: post #6

Only the AP choose to not attend out of solidarity? Shame on ABC, CBS, and the rest.

I don't recall the NYT, CNN or Politico refusing to attend when Obama kicked the Washington Times and NY Post out. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6156794&pag... Shame on them too?

> Oct. 31, 2008

> Barack Obama's campaign has booted from its airplane three reporters who work for newspapers that have endorsed John McCain.

Yeah, totally same thing.

Re: White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing

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Post by unuser »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #45
mtgentry wrote: post #6

Only the AP choose to not attend out of solidarity? Shame on ABC, CBS, and the rest.

I don't recall the NYT, CNN or Politico refusing to attend when Obama kicked the Washington Times and NY Post out. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6156794&pag... Shame on them too?

Attending an airplane?

Re: White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing

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Post by asynchronous13 »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #45
mtgentry wrote: post #6

Only the AP choose to not attend out of solidarity? Shame on ABC, CBS, and the rest.

I don't recall the NYT, CNN or Politico refusing to attend when Obama kicked the Washington Times and NY Post out. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6156794&pag... Shame on them too?

Kicking them off the plane is not equivalent to kicking them out of official Press Briefings.

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Post by SonicSoul »

sidlls wrote: post #44

I just can't get worked up about this. Had these "news" organizations been doing their jobs I might be more concerned. As it stands this is just elevating one group of propaganda orgs over others. The difference between what Trump has done here and what prior administrations did is the publicity and brazen transparency around it. I find it amusing that people think this is somehow a terrible, ominous event. This is a…

what job are they not doing?

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Post by mintplant »

jerf wrote: post #25
skolos wrote: post #7

Is there a historic precedent for this?

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/63167-congression... It's not a 100% precise match, but I'd look dimly on anyone trying to argue it's completely different somehow. Reverse the affiliations and you'd almost think it was written today. (Almost.)

I know many won't actually click through to read the linked article, so I think it's important to cite this here in the comments:

> The effort hasn’t been a total blackout; White House press secretary Robert Gibbs still calls on Fox News reporter Major Garrett at press briefings, but the Obama White House is clearly targeting the network that it believes is biased.

> In a weekend interview with The New York Times, White House spokeswoman Anita Dunn said the administration would “treat them the way we would treat an opponent.”

A similar situation, and not "completely different", but not exactly the same, either.

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Post by [deleted] »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #45
mtgentry wrote: post #6

Only the AP choose to not attend out of solidarity? Shame on ABC, CBS, and the rest.

I don't recall the NYT, CNN or Politico refusing to attend when Obama kicked the Washington Times and NY Post out. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6156794&pag... Shame on them too?

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