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Reporters can ask whatever they want, including stupid/uninteresting questions, that's the point. But limiting who can attend is only a move to signal they don
by redial 10y ago
Reporters can ask whatever they want, including stupid/uninteresting questions, that's the point.
But limiting who can attend is only a move to signal they don't want hard questions and if you ask them you get banned.
- smsm42 10y agoNobody wants hard questions, as such, but I agree it would be good for the President to allow diversity of viewpoints be represented in the press pool. I'm just saying journalists being soft and submissive towards the government with which they are politically aligned is not exactly the new thing that Trump threatens to unleash on us - it has happened many times before.
- redial 10y agoAllowing only those who are soft to ask questions is new.
- smsm42 10y agoAre you sure? Here is the report about closed sessions with reporters that Obama held: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/us/politics/calculated-candor-inside-obamas-off-the-record-briefings.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/us/politics/calculated-ca... It's not that some of the press was excluded, it's not that only "trusted" media was invited, it's that they agreed to not even report on what they talked about or who they met with. I think private meetings with no mention of them and reporting based on this as if they arrived to it by themselves and not were instructed by the administration is much cozier relationship than just being invited or not invited in one briefing.