CNN & others blocked from white House Gaggle

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  1. bois darc chunk

    bois darc chunk Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The White House banned the BBC from the gaggle too.
    If you can show me a less partisan news organization than the BBC, please post a link.
     
  2. Injeun

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    A whole gaggle of media folks representing broadcast, radio, and print, including the msm, were admitted. This is actually more than are normally invited to an informal press pool. So CNN's report that they were singled out for the cause of supression is not true. But go figure, they do that a lot regarding Trump. They can't help themselves.
     
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    If you can find a more anti-semtic one, post a link...
     
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    Yeah he's such a wilting violet up there on stage eh? eh? /virtual elbow nudge

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    CNN doesn't really need access to the facts to keep doing what it's doing though.
     
  5. thinkitout

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    The number of responses to this thread is obvious proof you have struck a nerve.
     
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    Why don't we all have keys then?
     
  7. bois darc chunk

    bois darc chunk Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Am I understanding you to say the BBC is anti-Semitic? … and are you saying the BBC was blocked from the press gaggle because they are anti-Semitic?

    A Google search of the BBC and anti-Semitic only brings up Breitbart articles.
     
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    Yes the BBC is anti-semitic and no, their exclusion was not due to this anti-Semitic coverage.
     
  9. katzgar

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    your post defends a sniveling little whiner. good luck with that.
     
  10. vino909

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    Yeah,...... a very bad idea. Nothing good can come of this.
     
  11. Seth Bullock

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    No. Snowflakes just bend over.

    I know when a network is spinning the news, and Fox does it too at times. It's not so much whether news networks ever spin the news, but the degree that they do, and the level to which they'll sink to support a candidate. CNN, by choice, passed that degree and sank below the level that should be maintained if it is to be respected as a news organization. In this past election cycle, CNN went "all in" for Hillary Clinton, forsaking all else, including journalistic ethics. CNN is still competent at reporting a tornado or other natural disaster, but when they discuss national politics, they are not reporting news, they're propagandizing. No one can deny that and claim to be intellectually honest. Everybody respects their First Amendment right, but that doesn't mean we must sympathize with a propaganda organization, nor does it mean Trump needs to have it in the White House. That seat can easily be filled by someone else, and whatever happens in the briefing will be duly reported to all of us, regardless of whether or not CNN is there.
     
  12. thinkitout

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    The fact that you think pro-America means pro-Trump is deeply disturbing.
     
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    Nothing is being censored. The media can still say and report what they want.
     
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    As it should be. I mean are we heading towards a state sanctioned news outlet like Pravda?
     
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    Get used to it...It's going to be a bumpy 4 years for the fringe left...
     
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    CNN is totally free to broadcast whatever it wants. And, they can find out what happens in those gaggle briefings the same way as any other broadcaster who isn't invited to them. It's all on the record. Besides, the seat they used to occupy can just as easily be occupied by a news organization, can't it? Meanwhile, CNN can still serve the Democratic Party just as they have without anyone inhibiting their right to do so whatsoever.
     
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    The fact that you think anything coming out of CNN since the beginning of this past election cycle is pro American deeply saddens me...
     
  18. Seth Bullock

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    No. I am the type who fights back and who defends others who fight back.
     
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    It is very relevant. You libs are crying that the press is being banned, CNN can't report if they aren't there, and on and on.

    The press is not being banned. They can still report if they aren't there. Just like smaller outlets around the county.

    CNN and others just got their feelings hurt for being called out.
     
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    Trump is very thin skinned, very sad!!! bust bullies usually are
     
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    Withholding ACCESS to information, good or bad, is censorship. . . . This is too clear-cut to be an argument on semantics.
     
  22. Zorro

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    Nonsense. These folks are always in the front row, others are always in the middle, others are always in the back. They had limited room, so they took a couple from the front, a couple from the middle and a couple from the back. The self-entitled spoiled nincompoops from the front, that didn't get picked are a bunch of whiny brats, who of course are now whining like spoiled little brats.

    Trumps loves the 1st Amendment, no one loves the First Amendment more than he does. The freedom to speak out applies to ALL of us, not just the whiny self-entitled brats in the front row.

    Trump should adopt the "whiny brats go to the back of the room" rule.
     
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    republicans have no shame, can't believe they are defending this, they are setting a precedence they will not like in the future
     
  24. Seth Bullock

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    CNN is just like Pravda.
     
  25. RedWolf

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    Would you be so kind to tell me how you're being censored and infringed upon as someone who was not invited?
     

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