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White House Bars Times, CNN and BBC from Briefing

85 points by micaeloliveira 10y ago

coldpie 10y ago
Reason enough for me to buy a subscription to the NY Times.
- luizb 10y ago
  same here
  - pseudobry 10y ago
    bought mine last week
coldcode 10y ago
Better to get the information from leaks anyway. Likely more accurate.
rc_bhg 10y ago
This is what oppressive totalitarian regimes do.
ComputerGuru 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886 It was #1 on the homepage then was instantly buried to #20. I'm not sure how that happened, tbh. This one is also being buried. Edit: now basically killed.
- eterm 10y ago
  Perhaps it was flagged because this doesn't fit the news guidelines, and as interesting as it is, it's still just politics.
  - ComputerGuru 10y ago
    Politics isn't banned.
    - deleted 10y ago
      [deleted]
    - eterm 10y ago
      Nothing is banned as they are guidelines, but the first words from the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics...".
      - BrailleHunting 10y ago
        If a popular story doesnt have a STEM, privacy or startup aspect, it likely belongs elsewhere. Otherwise, HN becomes more of a generic news thread app than a startup community.
- georgemcbay 10y ago
  Vote brigading? I was about to dismiss your post about it being "buried" when it is still on the front page, but it is dropping like a rock suspiciously fast.
- grzm 10y ago
  I'm sure it's set off the flamewar detector, as well as received flags, which affects ranking even before the title reflects the [flagged] tag.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
bgentry 10y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886, also on the front page
sergiotapia 10y ago
There's only so many times you can put out misleading content and get away with it.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- d136o 10y ago
  Do you think the WH has a problem with the accuracy of the news reports, or do you think they care more about silencing criticism? I'm also curious to know your thoughts on how the Executive Branch and Press relations look like in South American countries, it looks like in Bolivia things aren't as bad as they are in Ecuador [1][2]. Evo is on his way to being in power until 2020, Correa doesn't look like he'll let up (after inheriting Venezuela from Chavez), and Maduro is supervising the collapse of his country. Like Trump, these so called leaders have promised "el pueblo" (i.e. the people, aka the forgotten man etc...) change. He is clearly showing the same tendencies of opinion repression that allow a permanent hold on power (for his benefit really, not of the people who were swindled). Are some of us too worried about the eery parallels? [1] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/bolivia https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/bolivia [2] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/ecuador https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/ecuador
zinssmeister 10y ago
This is most likely not going to happen and if it did probably going to end badly: What if nobody showed up for these briefings and press conferences anymore?
- heifetz 10y ago
  I'm sure Trump / Bannon's ideal scenario would be to have only Breitbart report on Whitehouse news, and Trump will communicate through Twitter. They'll also manipulate various data released through official channels to reinforce their reality. This is the first president that has been arguing that the unemployment rate is higher than the official recognized rate (I know there are various measures) while he is in office.
heifetz 10y ago
The Trump administration will just get more and more desperate as they 1. get totally nothing done, and nothing passed, except singing a bunch of worthless EOs. 2. get caught in various scandals, and the investigations get more and more intense 3. economy stalls
- BrailleHunting 10y ago
  Wars are often used to distract from domestic inadequacies. Another million dead world citizens to make the MIC rich because a whiny despot doesn't have a clue. Also anecdotally, DJIA closed up on another numerical record, so a deep recession might be possible when the Goldman Sachs' Wall St accomplices' latest trickery overheats the economy.

coldpie 10y ago

Reason enough for me to buy a subscription to the NY Times.

luizb 10y ago
same here
- pseudobry 10y ago
  bought mine last week

coldcode 10y ago

Better to get the information from leaks anyway. Likely more accurate.

rc_bhg 10y ago

This is what oppressive totalitarian regimes do.

ComputerGuru 10y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886 It was #1 on the homepage then was instantly buried to #20. I'm not sure how that happened, tbh. This one is also being buried. Edit: now basically killed.

eterm 10y ago
Perhaps it was flagged because this doesn't fit the news guidelines, and as interesting as it is, it's still just politics.
- ComputerGuru 10y ago
  Politics isn't banned.
  - deleted 10y ago
    [deleted]
  - eterm 10y ago
    Nothing is banned as they are guidelines, but the first words from the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics...".
    - BrailleHunting 10y ago
      If a popular story doesnt have a STEM, privacy or startup aspect, it likely belongs elsewhere. Otherwise, HN becomes more of a generic news thread app than a startup community.
georgemcbay 10y ago
Vote brigading? I was about to dismiss your post about it being "buried" when it is still on the front page, but it is dropping like a rock suspiciously fast.
grzm 10y ago
I'm sure it's set off the flamewar detector, as well as received flags, which affects ranking even before the title reflects the [flagged] tag.
deleted 10y ago
[deleted]

bgentry 10y ago

dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886, also on the front page

sergiotapia 10y ago

There's only so many times you can put out misleading content and get away with it.

deleted 10y ago
[deleted]
d136o 10y ago
Do you think the WH has a problem with the accuracy of the news reports, or do you think they care more about silencing criticism? I'm also curious to know your thoughts on how the Executive Branch and Press relations look like in South American countries, it looks like in Bolivia things aren't as bad as they are in Ecuador [1][2]. Evo is on his way to being in power until 2020, Correa doesn't look like he'll let up (after inheriting Venezuela from Chavez), and Maduro is supervising the collapse of his country. Like Trump, these so called leaders have promised "el pueblo" (i.e. the people, aka the forgotten man etc...) change. He is clearly showing the same tendencies of opinion repression that allow a permanent hold on power (for his benefit really, not of the people who were swindled). Are some of us too worried about the eery parallels? [1] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/bolivia https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/bolivia [2] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/ecuador https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/ecuador

zinssmeister 10y ago

This is most likely not going to happen and if it did probably going to end badly: What if nobody showed up for these briefings and press conferences anymore?

heifetz 10y ago
I'm sure Trump / Bannon's ideal scenario would be to have only Breitbart report on Whitehouse news, and Trump will communicate through Twitter. They'll also manipulate various data released through official channels to reinforce their reality. This is the first president that has been arguing that the unemployment rate is higher than the official recognized rate (I know there are various measures) while he is in office.

heifetz 10y ago

The Trump administration will just get more and more desperate as they 1. get totally nothing done, and nothing passed, except singing a bunch of worthless EOs. 2. get caught in various scandals, and the investigations get more and more intense 3. economy stalls

BrailleHunting 10y ago
Wars are often used to distract from domestic inadequacies. Another million dead world citizens to make the MIC rich because a whiny despot doesn't have a clue. Also anecdotally, DJIA closed up on another numerical record, so a deep recession might be possible when the Goldman Sachs' Wall St accomplices' latest trickery overheats the economy.