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matt819

(10,749 posts) Wed Feb 15, 2017, 05:49 PM Feb 2017

Media participation in WH press conferences

I can't bring myself to write, presser. Stupid word.

Ok, Jim Acosta of CNN said that the die is cast. 45 is calling only on right wing outlets.

Probably true.

What now?

What does the MSM do? Show up and be ignored? "Beg" to be recognized?

Or stop showing up. Let the press pool coverage suffice and then go and cultivate more and more and better and better sources at the WH and report the inside scoop, not the shit that 45 and Spicer and Conway (for now) shovel as gospel.

After all, the press conferences are fully controlled and for the most part staged, with reporters acting as stenographers. I mean, really, apart from trying to goad whoever's up front into saying something stupid, what good are they? So, stop showing up. But keep reporting, and reporting, and reporting.

It's a new world out there. In addition to good old-fashioned journalism - the next Woodward & Bernstein are out there now - some of this new shit requires a new response.

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Media participation in WH press conferences (Original Post) matt819 Feb 2017 OP

They have never been faced with this BLATANT BULLSHIT BEFORE...they need to figure out TrekLuver Feb 2017 #1

Woodward and Bernstein were acting in the framework of a relatively guillaumeb Feb 2017 #2

Reuters advised its reporters Lindsay Feb 2017 #3

dig as deep as they can and get him out of there Angry Dragon Feb 2017 #4

Trump is stupid if he thinks this will work. Turbineguy Feb 2017 #5

Heh heh..."Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."--Mark Twain Cognitive_Resonance Feb 2017 #6

TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)

1. They have never been faced with this BLATANT BULLSHIT BEFORE...they need to figure out

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Wed Feb 15, 2017, 05:50 PM

Feb 2017

something...and fast.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

2. Woodward and Bernstein were acting in the framework of a relatively

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Wed Feb 15, 2017, 05:54 PM

Feb 2017

independent media. Today, 6 large corporations control 90% of the media and profit is the main goal, not journalism.

But I hope you are correct. The photos of the press area at the golf course, where the press was secluded in a room with covered windows was bad enough. Worse was that the so-called media watchdogs allowed themselves to be treated like captives.

Lindsay

(3,276 posts)

3. Reuters advised its reporters

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Wed Feb 15, 2017, 05:54 PM

Feb 2017

to treat this like they would any other dictatorship. Ignore official handouts, develop sources, and if those sources dry up, develop other sources.

It's the only way to report on actual news now.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

4. dig as deep as they can and get him out of there

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Wed Feb 15, 2017, 05:54 PM

Feb 2017

Turbineguy

(37,364 posts)

5. Trump is stupid if he thinks this will work.

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Wed Feb 15, 2017, 06:00 PM

Feb 2017

Having all the press / media outlets there give him a chance to get in his version of the truth. If he ignores MSM then MSM will get and publish info based on leaks (which are plentiful). Trump actually loses even more control.

Cognitive_Resonance

(1,546 posts)

6. Heh heh..."Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."--Mark Twain