Free press

[Crepitus]

YOu guys keep telling us what great fans of free speech you are, what's your take on this?

Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Richard Grenell accused Voice of America’s Chief National Correspondent Steve Herman of acting in a “treasonous” way for posting a quote critical of the Trump administration while reporting on recent lawsuits being filed against the Trump administration following the shuttering of USAID over the weekend.

He quoted someone who said destroying USAID makes American less safe at home and abroad. He posted his article on twitter where Grenell saw it and replied.

“Aren’t you a taxpayer funded “reporter” for @voa?”

“Why are you working against President Trump’s reform plans for the U.S. budget? You weren’t elected. It isn’t too much to suggest this is treasonous. You don’t get to work against the official U.S. government policies while being paid by US taxpayers. You should be immediately fired,” added Grenell, who Trump also recently made the Kennedy Center’s interim executive director.


Pretty sure he's just doing his job, but the trumpers don't see it that way. You must be loyal or you must be in prison, or worse.

Trump Envoy Accuses VOA Reporter of ‘Treasonous’ Behavior for Reporting a Quote Critical of the President

In 1994, Congress went passed a law to create an explicit “firewall” between the VOA and the partisan politics of Washington, D.C..

www.mediaite.com

 

[TemplarKormac]

YOu guys keep telling us what great fans of free speech you are, what's your take on this?

Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Richard Grenell accused Voice of America’s Chief National Correspondent Steve Herman of acting in a “treasonous” way for posting a quote critical of the Trump administration while reporting on recent lawsuits being filed against the Trump administration following the shuttering of USAID over the weekend.

He quoted someone who said destroying USAID makes American less safe at home and abroad. He posted his article on twitter where Grenell saw it and replied.

“Aren’t you a taxpayer funded “reporter” for @voa?”

“Why are you working against President Trump’s reform plans for the U.S. budget? You weren’t elected. It isn’t too much to suggest this is treasonous. You don’t get to work against the official U.S. government policies while being paid by US taxpayers. You should be immediately fired,” added Grenell, who Trump also recently made the Kennedy Center’s interim executive director.


Pretty sure he's just doing his job, but the trumpers don't see it that way. You must be loyal or you must be in prison, or worse.

Trump Envoy Accuses VOA Reporter of ‘Treasonous’ Behavior for Reporting a Quote Critical of the President

In 1994, Congress went passed a law to create an explicit “firewall” between the VOA and the partisan politics of Washington, D.C..

www.mediaite.com

Lol when Biden had a pre-screened press pool, you have very little standing in talking about free press.

 

[Crepitus]

Lol when Biden had a pre-screened press pool, you have very little standing in talking about free press.

Fake news.

 

[Rogue AI]

If the reporter works for the administration it is his duty to forward the administration's agenda. Although not treasonous, certainly treacherous.

If this 'reporter' wants to criticize the president he should do so from the private sector.

 

[Rambunctious]

Steve Herman

@W7VOA
Eliminating USAID "makes Americans less safe at home and abroad," says Skye Perryman, president of Democracy Forward. Steve Herman (@w7voa@journa.host)

First of all that is his opinion... so he should state that its his opinion and also have a guest comment who disagrees with him... That would be fine and good solid reporting for an opinion piece...
VOA is fully funded by tax dollars and Steve forgot that I guess... in WW2 government reporters and photographers were put in jail for much less...

 

[Auld Phart]

YOu guys keep telling us what great fans of free speech you are, what's your take on this?

Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Richard Grenell accused Voice of America’s Chief National Correspondent Steve Herman of acting in a “treasonous” way for posting a quote critical of the Trump administration while reporting on recent lawsuits being filed against the Trump administration following the shuttering of USAID over the weekend.

He quoted someone who said destroying USAID makes American less safe at home and abroad. He posted his article on twitter where Grenell saw it and replied.

“Aren’t you a taxpayer funded “reporter” for @voa?”

“Why are you working against President Trump’s reform plans for the U.S. budget? You weren’t elected. It isn’t too much to suggest this is treasonous. You don’t get to work against the official U.S. government policies while being paid by US taxpayers. You should be immediately fired,” added Grenell, who Trump also recently made the Kennedy Center’s interim executive director.


Pretty sure he's just doing his job, but the trumpers don't see it that way. You must be loyal or you must be in prison, or worse.

Trump Envoy Accuses VOA Reporter of ‘Treasonous’ Behavior for Reporting a Quote Critical of the President

In 1994, Congress went passed a law to create an explicit “firewall” between the VOA and the partisan politics of Washington, D.C..

www.mediaite.com

I prefer free donuts


(you don' seen to enjoy 'free press' unless it's bashing Trump, and I'm not all that sure that press is actually free.)

 

[TemplarKormac]

Fake news.

That's all you can say? Your concession is duly noted.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Lol when Biden had a pre-screened press pool, you have very little standing in talking about free press.

fake news

 

[TemplarKormac]

fake news

Prove me wrong then.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Prove me wrong then.

You have not proved yourself right. Get to it, pardner.

 

[Billiejeens]

Fake news.

Cultist.

 

[TemplarKormac]

You have not proved yourself right. Get to it, pardner.

White House eases reporter pre-screening for Biden events after protest

Roughly 50 journalists were let into the East Room without discrimination based on the outlet they represent — marking the apparent end of a practice that outraged the White House press.

nypost.com

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

White House eases reporter pre-screening for Biden events after protest

Roughly 50 journalists were let into the East Room without discrimination based on the outlet they represent — marking the apparent end of a practice that outraged the White House press.

nypost.com

That's a start. Keep going.

 

[Leo123]

YOu guys keep telling us what great fans of free speech you are, what's your take on this?

Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Richard Grenell accused Voice of America’s Chief National Correspondent Steve Herman of acting in a “treasonous” way for posting a quote critical of the Trump administration while reporting on recent lawsuits being filed against the Trump administration following the shuttering of USAID over the weekend.

He quoted someone who said destroying USAID makes American less safe at home and abroad. He posted his article on twitter where Grenell saw it and replied.

“Aren’t you a taxpayer funded “reporter” for @voa?”

“Why are you working against President Trump’s reform plans for the U.S. budget? You weren’t elected. It isn’t too much to suggest this is treasonous. You don’t get to work against the official U.S. government policies while being paid by US taxpayers. You should be immediately fired,” added Grenell, who Trump also recently made the Kennedy Center’s interim executive director.


Pretty sure he's just doing his job, but the trumpers don't see it that way. You must be loyal or you must be in prison, or worse.

Trump Envoy Accuses VOA Reporter of ‘Treasonous’ Behavior for Reporting a Quote Critical of the President

In 1994, Congress went passed a law to create an explicit “firewall” between the VOA and the partisan politics of Washington, D.C..

www.mediaite.com

No one is destroying USAID, they're just getting a haircut.

 

[Crepitus]

(you don' seen to enjoy 'free press' unless it's bashing Trump, and I'm not all that sure that press is actually free.)

That is a lie.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

YOu guys keep telling us what great fans of free speech you are, what's your take on this?

Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Richard Grenell accused Voice of America’s Chief National Correspondent Steve Herman of acting in a “treasonous” way for posting a quote critical of the Trump administration while reporting on recent lawsuits being filed against the Trump administration following the shuttering of USAID over the weekend.

He quoted someone who said destroying USAID makes American less safe at home and abroad. He posted his article on twitter where Grenell saw it and replied.

“Aren’t you a taxpayer funded “reporter” for @voa?”

“Why are you working against President Trump’s reform plans for the U.S. budget? You weren’t elected. It isn’t too much to suggest this is treasonous. You don’t get to work against the official U.S. government policies while being paid by US taxpayers. You should be immediately fired,” added Grenell, who Trump also recently made the Kennedy Center’s interim executive director.


Pretty sure he's just doing his job, but the trumpers don't see it that way. You must be loyal or you must be in prison, or worse.

Trump Envoy Accuses VOA Reporter of ‘Treasonous’ Behavior for Reporting a Quote Critical of the President

In 1994, Congress went passed a law to create an explicit “firewall” between the VOA and the partisan politics of Washington, D.C..

www.mediaite.com

The press isn't free. USAID pays for it.

 

[Crepitus]

That's all you can say? Your concession is duly noted.

That is fake news. He did not have a "prescreened" press pool.

You want a "prescreened press pool?

The tRump *administration is removing reporters from places that still say "gulf of Mexico" like the rest of the planet.

There's your prescreening.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5139328-white-house-ap-gulf-mexico/

 

[Crepitus]

The press isn't free. USAID pays for it.

Don't be stupider than you have to be, kid.

 

[gipper]

No one is destroying USAID, they're just getting a haircut.

Probably so and most unfortunate. It needs eliminating along with most of the federal government.

 

[Lesh]

Trump just barred the AP from the WH because they refused to call the Gulf of Mexico by Trump’s stupid “Gulf of America” name