Trump bans CNN from White House in next goose step towards fascism
Jesus wept…
Trump bans CNN, MS NOW, Politico from the White House
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he was banning three major news outlets – CNN, MS NOW and Politico – from the White House, in his latest move to crack down on the independent press.
He wrote that he was banning the outlets for allegedly “reporting FAKE NEWS” in a move that is likely to be challenged as conflicting with the US Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees of free speech and a free press.
“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America,” he wrote. “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.”
CNN, MS NOW, Politico and the National Press Club did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Trump has repeatedly urged broadcasters to drop comedy or news programmes he dislikes or which have joked about or criticised him or his administration. He has also called on the Federal Communications Commission to strip stations of licences after criticising news and other programming.
RNZ
…every day in every way, Trump proves what an orange fascist he truly is.
Trump saw Ed Sheeran’s canceling of Macklemore and said, ‘hold my McDonalds”.
Trump’s not a Brown Shirt, but it’s certainly dark chocolate.
Trump has finally solved fake news- if you don’t like the news, just remove the journalists, because nothing screams ‘I’m winning’ quite like banning the people asking how the winning is going.
He’s not just tearing down the East Wing for his Ball Room, the White House press room is also being redesigned – fewer reporters, more mirrors.
Next week’s press conference will be much smoother: ‘Mr President, how magnificent was your decision?’ ‘Excellent question.
Banning journalists because you dislike their coverage is an extraordinary way to prove they’re completely wrong about you.
Trump banning CNN from White House is the next goose step towards fascism.
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Those so-called “news” outlets are left-wing opinion pieces pretending to be news…hardly anyone watches them anymore
If no one watches them why bother, Nathan? Given that CNN is another Zionist supporter club I am surprised you would be for this. You’ve added Trump to your apologist list alongside Netanyahu?
Once again – we bother to remind those so-called “news” outlets what they are actually meant to do…report on events/people, and ask follow up questions…
Sadly, this is missing from those “news” outlets
Calling CNN, MS NOW, and Politico independent news outlets is a bit of a stretch.
SAC says:
“Calling CNN, MS NOW, and Politico independent news outlets is a bit of a stretch.”
It is not as black and white as some think. Right wing conspiracy theorists, smear all mainstream news as ‘Fake News’.
When a news outlet claims to be independent you always gotta ask, independent from who?
Privately owned corporate media outlets like CNN, MS NOW and Politico, are dependent on their advertisers for most of their revenue, Many of their bigger advertisers are powerful corporations in their own right, who can and do, exert pressure on the meda by threatening to withdraw their advertising money if a news report puts them in a bad light .
At the end of the day like all privately owned companies media companies have to return a dividend to their shareholders.
These corporate media companies and the journalists that work for them are providing a service and a product that people pay for, either by watching their advertisments or by subscription.
Every day the quality of that service, (or product) that they provide, is being evaluated by viewers and subscribers for it’s factuality and objectivity. They can’t get it wrong too often. This is a countervailing pressure to the power of the advertisers.
There is another pressure on these media companies, the workforce of these media corporations.
Drummed into professional journalists is the mantra, ‘Newspapers are the first draft of history.’
The professional journalists who cover the news, who write the reports, the human beings whose bylines are attached to (almost) every news story, whose reputations are being judged every day by their readers and viewers for their professionalism, objectivity and accuracy, and not just by viewers and readers, but also subjected to the scrutiny of their peers and scholarly academics, and even by history itself. It’s a weighty responsibility for any working journalist, no matter who is paying their salary.
I believe that most professional journalists are honest brokers,.obeying their conscience in reporting the news as accurately as they can.
In my opinion only a few are knowing mercenary liars and propagandists.
This is why I always attach the name of the human being behind every news report, I cite.
tl;dr
‘We are all Macklemore
Ed Sheeran’s backing band and all his supporting acts faced their ‘Spartacus Moment’, and stepped up to it. Walking out on Sheeran, en mass in solidarity with Macklemore after he was blacklisted by Robert Craft with Ed Sheeran’s complicity.
Now the White House Press Corps are facing their ‘Spartacus Moment’. Will they walk out on Trump en mass, in solidarity with their Press Corps colleagues blacklisted by Trump?
Not this again…sigh
One can only hope Trump follows Lindsay Graham very shortly. Alas this probably won’t be the case.
Not long now and he will be a lame duck president., better still he will be impeached(again) along with Hegseth, nothing the puppy dog Johnson can do about it.