Trump says won't move White House briefing room, will pick who gets in

[Mc Mike]

49. First, li'l bush spent years denying actual press members like Helen Thomas access.

Denying actual writers press passes, giving fake writers passes instead, got caught illegally paying shills like Armstrong Williams to write lying positive stories.



Then, right at the beginning of the Obama Admin, Prez O mentioned that Fox was not news, just a repug propaganda outlet:

"...the network’s heavy coverage of some of the more intensely anti-administration activity at town-hall-style meetings on health care and Mr. Beck’s remark that Mr. Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people.”

The first real shot from the White House, however, came when aides excluded “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace” — which they had previously treated as distinct from the network — from a round of presidential interviews with Sunday morning news programs in mid-September.

“We simply decided to stop abiding by the fiction, which is aided and abetted by the mainstream press, that Fox is a traditional news organization,” said Dan Pfeiffer, the deputy White House communications director. Later that week, White House officials said, they noticed a column by Clark Hoyt, the public editor of The Times, in which Jill Abramson, one of the paper’s two managing editors, described her newsroom’s “insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.” The Washington Post’s executive editor, Marcus Brauchli, had already expressed similar concerns about his newsroom.

White House officials said comments like those had focused them on a need to make their case that Fox had an ideological bent undercutting its legitimacy as a news organization. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html

If you read the article, you can see how the entire US press establishment jumped all over the Obama Admin and leapt to the defense of poor Fox 'News'. The Times article even notes a 'correction' to their original reporting. They 'accidentally' got the timeline wrong, and said that the Obama admin's objectionable exclusion of Fox occurred on Tuesday, October 20, but the actual date was Thursday, October 22. In other words, the NY Times, with Hoyt and Abramson at the wheel, didn't just think that they should be more tuned in to Fox's issues, they jumped into the fight on Fox's side right away, with a 10/23 article. And lied and pretended that it took 3 days for them to respond to this earth shaking ' unfair attack by the Dem Prez' on a 'servant of the people' 'press organization'.



Now, the repugs are coming into power again. Time to let the Prez attack the press, all the time. He has his flunkies threaten the press, he attacks them from the stage at events, encourages his more deranged followers to get really mad at the press, denies any press he doesn't like access. His people death threaten journalists like Ioffe and Eichenwald.

But now the dominant paradigm from the right is "He's our president, and can do what he wants. Treasonous press."

And the piece de resistance for the whole issue is how the righties are trying to screw reality's head on backwards on this issue. Trying to find the Times coverage, of the 'Obama attacks press Freedoms' issue, brings up a ton of rightie fake news sites screaming and crying about how "Obama did it, and got away with it, and nobody complained. Dem propaganda. Dems attack press freedom. It wasn't reported by Librul Media!"

Obama's admin was right when they attempted to call out Fox for its blatant repuglinazi propaganda. "Unbiased" sources like Hoyt's Times, Tapper at ABC, and Brauchli's Post forced Obama to recant right away, and pretend that Fox isn't just swinish far right repuglinazi propaganda. Now the jaded Mandarin is doing to the press exactly what the repugs lyingly said Prez Obama did to the press.

And the repuglinazis get to pretend that Obama got away with it, and that anyone who mentions dRumpfenfuhrer's nazi attacks on the press is a hypocrite. "The repugs and the truth are the real victims here, and so is repug freedom of the press."

So they get to commit the crime, and simultaneously project the guilt for committing the crime onto the people who they're committing the crime against.

They're not geniuses, they're actually not even very fucking smart. They just have a ton of money, and a ton of access to and control over the media.