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Brian Karem: We Stood Up to the Administration Today Because Free Press is Crucial [View all]
We Stood Up to the Administration Today Because Free Press is Crucial
By Brian Karem
June 27, 2017
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The president has never admitted one mistake. The current administration sells half-truths and lies like they’re day-old cookies at a bake sale.
The fact is: I like Sarah Sanders. I like Sean Spicer. I like most of the people I’ve met who work in this administration. They’re personable and, as far as I can tell – with a few notable exceptions – decent people.
But I don’t like bullies and I don’t like the entire institution of the press and free speech being castigated for no other reason than we either get stories wrong – which happens, and it should be then responsibly corrected – or because we report news the president doesn’t like – which seems to happen even more often than getting stories wrong. (Note: Our founder, Hugh Hefner, believes in the First Amendment with all his heart.)
The foundation of a free republic is a free press. You take the good with the bad and you move on. As I’ve said before, in quoting Larry Speakes: we won’t tell you how to stage the news, so don’t tell us how to report it.
More: http://www.playboy.com/articles/brian-karem-sarah-huckabee-sanders?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=Playboy&utm_campaign=Playboy.com
By Brian Karem
June 27, 2017
... snip
The president has never admitted one mistake. The current administration sells half-truths and lies like they’re day-old cookies at a bake sale.
The fact is: I like Sarah Sanders. I like Sean Spicer. I like most of the people I’ve met who work in this administration. They’re personable and, as far as I can tell – with a few notable exceptions – decent people.
But I don’t like bullies and I don’t like the entire institution of the press and free speech being castigated for no other reason than we either get stories wrong – which happens, and it should be then responsibly corrected – or because we report news the president doesn’t like – which seems to happen even more often than getting stories wrong. (Note: Our founder, Hugh Hefner, believes in the First Amendment with all his heart.)
The foundation of a free republic is a free press. You take the good with the bad and you move on. As I’ve said before, in quoting Larry Speakes: we won’t tell you how to stage the news, so don’t tell us how to report it.
More: http://www.playboy.com/articles/brian-karem-sarah-huckabee-sanders?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=Playboy&utm_campaign=Playboy.com
Yes, the link goes to Playboy because the reporter who stood up to SHS today is Playboy’s White House Correspondent.
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