White House Repeatedly Refuses To Say Journos Aren't 'Enemy Of The People'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Matt Shuham | August 2, 2018 2:33 pm
Asked Thursday to say definitively that the media aren’t an “enemy of the people,” as administration staffer and presidential daughter Ivanka Trump did earlier in the day, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to do so multiple times.
Instead, she delivered the White House’s tried-and-true anti-media line, at one point telling the press they should’ve covered President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Florida in a more positive light.
“Just this week, the media refused to cover his remarks in Florida highlighting efforts on workforce development,” Sanders told NPR’s Sarah McCammon, who asked about Ivanka Trump’s comments. “In fact, the pooler for the press said that there was no news made, despite the fact that the governor of the state joined with dozens of businesses across the state of Florida to announce thousands of new jobs.”
CNN’s Jim Acosta pressed Sanders later: “You did not say that the press is not the enemy of the people,” he said, before asking her to do so. “I think we deserve that.”
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"SHS has only one job - to speak on behalf on Donald Trump..."
The second is to make the administration's policies and position more palatable to the public, of which she is failing miserably at.
Part and parcel of any spokespersons job. That too is her job. Though tt may be a rather complex thought to many people, the existence of one job obligation does not always deny other job obligations. 
