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maxrandb

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7. The current White House "press" corps

Reply to senseandsensibility (Original post)

Mon Aug 25, 2025, 08:59 PM

Aug 2025

consists of the equivalent of the hawk tuah girl giving hand-job advice to the teen bikini model who talks about vaccine efficacy on tic-toc.

That's what 2025 "news" is all about. It's influencers and scam artists that have convinced millions of Americans that, if they hike up their skirts and talk about spitting reach-arounds, they're "geniuses" that must be listened to.

If Jake Tapper could, he'd wear a miniskirt and ensure the camera angle showed what color panties he was wearing that day.

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This is why Lawrence O'Donnell calls them the worst White House Press Corps Ever [View all] senseandsensibility Aug 2025 OP

They are just doing what the press does in the rest of the dictatorships. Klarkashton Aug 2025 #1

The ones who attend these "pressers" obviously senseandsensibility Aug 2025 #2

I don't watch these events. How many questions actually get asked? maxsolomon Aug 2025 #3

MSNBC needs to do what the Break the Fake guys on TVP do when the Russian press is talking, clown noses lol n/t Cheezoholic Aug 2025 #4

Are there even any Traditional mainstream media outlets allowed any more? Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #5

AP is still banned as far as I know because senseandsensibility Aug 2025 #6

The current White House "press" corps maxrandb Aug 2025 #7

The Fourth Estate is metastasizing into the Failed Estate Martin Eden Aug 2025 #8

They are declining before our eyes senseandsensibility Aug 2025 #10

The question is: Martin Eden Aug 2025 #11

I've come around now to the idea senseandsensibility Aug 2025 #12

I'm trying to imagine being a journalist, knowing what needs to be done Martin Eden Aug 2025 #14

True, and these particular journalists senseandsensibility Aug 2025 #15

Reminds me of a quote from Upton Sinclair: Martin Eden Aug 2025 #19

The last time I watched one of those horrible spectacles... Orrex Aug 2025 #9

IMHO,no legitimate news organization should give the Whitehouse the time of day. Buddyzbuddy Aug 2025 #13

It might be just a thought, senseandsensibility Aug 2025 #16

Thank you. Buddyzbuddy Aug 2025 #20

The corporate media is part and parcel of the fascist coup Mysterian Aug 2025 #17

A White House press conference is now just another Trump Rally. thought crime Aug 2025 #18