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Pulling press pases, just about ending press conferences, Calling everything fake news. Current admin hates the media unless it reads from it's talking points.
by gonesilent 7y ago
Pulling press pases, just about ending press conferences, Calling everything fake news. Current admin hates the media unless it reads from it's talking points.
- dnautics 7y agoCalling something fake news is not a punishment (you could construe almost any action done by a president as a punishment for someone under any criteria sufficiently vague as to admit that), and pulling a press pass is hardly a punsihment given how farcical this governments press conferences are. Have any journalists been jailed, murdered, fined, or had a business licence revoked by the state? These things happen, and also in 'civilised' nations like EU member states. If trump has done this I would certainly appreciate knowing so as to criticize the administration for it.
- detritus 7y ago"Calling something fake news is not a punishment" It is when the highest and supposedly most-respected seat in a country undermines the entire validity of the fourth estate in a time when there's no viable replacement. It's a personal, poisonous and Pyrrhic sort of punishment, but it's punishment nonetheless.