Good reporting has no value to donOLD. He only speaks to his cult followers. His lies feed his fantasy world where MAGA lives. Like all cult leaders people are only thing that are either useful or useless. If donOLD is friendly towards you then you are doing something wrong. AP is useless to donOLD that is the best endorsement they could get.
By limiting WH Press Pool access to only FOX News and its swamp-kin imitators like OANN, Trump/GOP accomplish two goals:
1) Guaranteed softballs and puff pieces only from pro-GOP reporters. No more of those pesky questions based in, y'know, reality. You can't establish a thriving Ministry of Truth without those adorable alternative facts!
2) Increased market ownership by same RW swamp outlets. Roughly 50% of the voting public already relies on FOX News for some/most/all their daily grievance-riling dosing of un-facts. FOX & Friends will get to push their market share up, up, up!
If the price of admission to the press pool is accepting lies, even ones that seem small like the name of the gulf, then they are better off staying out. The corruption of the press pool like all of the corruption now happening in all of the government is wrong. You can't beat them by joining them.
Pre-Trump, the WH Press Corps was always a free for all, where most reporters were just trying to get clarification on issues, and do their jobs. There have always been ideologically driven reporters--Like FOX News's Doocy--who would desperately try to spring gotcha! questions, that they could later edit and repackage on their own networks. Watching Jen Psaki school Doocy like he was a confused primary-schooler was always great entertainment.
Under Trump1 the old system still held, which is how we that famous "alternative facts" quote out Kellyanne Conway when confronted with Trump's inability to tell the truth. *Sighs and wipes away a tear* Ahh, the good old days.
Truth matters. Journalists, like the courts, may be the only line of defense we have against the impending autocracy. Apathy for the plethora of lies coming out of the White House does great harm to us all. Apathy is not your friend.
Good reporting has no value to donOLD. He only speaks to his cult followers. His lies feed his fantasy world where MAGA lives. Like all cult leaders people are only thing that are either useful or useless. If donOLD is friendly towards you then you are doing something wrong. AP is useless to donOLD that is the best endorsement they could get.
By limiting WH Press Pool access to only FOX News and its swamp-kin imitators like OANN, Trump/GOP accomplish two goals:
1) Guaranteed softballs and puff pieces only from pro-GOP reporters. No more of those pesky questions based in, y'know, reality. You can't establish a thriving Ministry of Truth without those adorable alternative facts!
2) Increased market ownership by same RW swamp outlets. Roughly 50% of the voting public already relies on FOX News for some/most/all their daily grievance-riling dosing of un-facts. FOX & Friends will get to push their market share up, up, up!
If the price of admission to the press pool is accepting lies, even ones that seem small like the name of the gulf, then they are better off staying out. The corruption of the press pool like all of the corruption now happening in all of the government is wrong. You can't beat them by joining them.
Pre-Trump, the WH Press Corps was always a free for all, where most reporters were just trying to get clarification on issues, and do their jobs. There have always been ideologically driven reporters--Like FOX News's Doocy--who would desperately try to spring gotcha! questions, that they could later edit and repackage on their own networks. Watching Jen Psaki school Doocy like he was a confused primary-schooler was always great entertainment.
Under Trump1 the old system still held, which is how we that famous "alternative facts" quote out Kellyanne Conway when confronted with Trump's inability to tell the truth. *Sighs and wipes away a tear* Ahh, the good old days.
Why have them !
It is all for show!
All the answers lies!
They're proving their value, but not to us. They are falling over each other to prove their value to the corporations that employ them.
The DC Press Corpse is useless.
Truth matters. Journalists, like the courts, may be the only line of defense we have against the impending autocracy. Apathy for the plethora of lies coming out of the White House does great harm to us all. Apathy is not your friend.
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