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What happened today needs to be done at ALL press briefings Every.Single.Time. When Spicer tried cutting off a man asking his question, Spicer then went to a woman and asked her to ask her question. The woman said, "That's ok...you can let him continue to ask his question." Every single reporter needs to do this EACH time Spicer tries to cut them off to go to someone else for a question!!!!
annabanana
(52,791 posts)The press must start holding his tootsies til they're nice and toasty!
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)These guys need to stick together. They must all know by now that it should be number one to anything else they do. If they don't know this they are either terribly naive (someone should fill them in quickly) or incredibly self adoring to believe they are "the one" who will never be fucked over by the maggot.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... if the massess are split
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)By the editor of the Columbia Journalism Review
He lays out the new rules for the press corps under Trump.
"Were going to work together. You have tried to divide us and use reporters deep competitive streaks to cause family fights. Those days are ending. We now recognize that the challenge of covering you requires that we cooperate and help one another whenever possible. So, when you shout down or ignore a reporter at a press conference who has said something you dont like, youre going to face a unified front. Well work together on stories when it makes sense, and make sure the world hears when our colleagues write stories of importance. We will, of course, still have disagreements, and even important debates, about ethics or taste or fair comment. But those debates will be ours to begin and end."
More:
http://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/trump_white_house_press_corps.php
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,005 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,627 posts)You should start this as a separate thread. I have not seen it before.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)court ruling threads have calmed down a bit. I think I posted it before but can't remember for sure. It does seem the media is implementing some of it, though. They are calling lies by name now.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)captain queeg
(10,208 posts)hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)Sorry, I hadn't seen your OP.
The LOOK that Spicer gave that woman could have killed!!! LOL LOL LOL
Yes, this is exactly what the reporters need to do. It unnerves him and angers him, and they need to keep him unbalanced!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8621284
homegirl
(1,429 posts)is a method they have to learn.
drray23
(7,633 posts)He is not very good at thinking on his feet and deliver well crafted answers. If you compare him with past press secretaries, he is pathethic. Now, granted it is hard to defend a lunatic like Trump but still, he has no oratory skills, no spinning skills, etc.. He just flat out lies and get confused while doing so.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)MSM will pick up on this.
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)Augiedog
(2,548 posts)Native
(5,942 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)reminds me of my mum, back in the 50's, when a store clerk tried to help her ahead of a black woman.....she said, "I can wait my turn."
Cha
(297,311 posts)wannabe tyrant.