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Curious how long this will actually last before the outlets cave under access pressure again. Has anything like this worked before?
by qqxufo 1y ago
Curious how long this will actually last before the outlets cave under access pressure again. Has anything like this worked before?
- crocowhile 1y agoIt has worked in the UK. The then government had decided to unilaterally exclude some "hostile" media from the room and all the others walked out in protest. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/03/political-journalists-boycott-no-10-briefing-after-reporter-ban https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/03/political-j...
- rob74 1y agoNot sure if it this was ever tried before by any US government entity - but, if the condition for remaining an accredited Pentagon reporter is only reporting the official statements of the Pentagon (which you can also copy from their press releases), then having the accreditation seems largely pointless to me?
- postexitus 1y agoNaive way of thinking. If authorities hold on to power long enough, nearly everybody will cave under - some minority will go indie route. I've seen this happening in Turkey first hand over 20 years, first some select reporters got banned, than some news organizations got bought out by friends of the president, then a handful of more liberal news orgs lost money, they got bought by some other friends, who actually kept their "opposition" mask, but actually made them a false-flag opposition and fired all the real reporters, some of which went to jail for made up reasons, others went on to be indies on youtube. Just check how quickly the elite has switched sides. You would have expected some more backbone.