Trump White House blocks CNN, NYT, LA Times, Politico and others from media briefing

[Slade3200]

The White House on Friday blocked a number of news outlets from covering spokesman Sean Spicer’s question-and-answer session.

According to The Hill, Spicer decided to hold an off-camera “gaggle” with reporters inside his West Wing office instead of the traditional on-camera briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.

Among the outlets not permitted to cover the gaggle were CNN, The New York Times, The Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, BBC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News.

Those who were allowed to enter included journalists from Breitbart, the Washington Times and One America News Network.

News organizations such as ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Reuters, Bloomberg and McClatchy were invited as well.

The incident comes amid President Donald Trump’s longstanding feud with the media over their biased coverage against him.

During the election campaign, research indicated that an overwhelming majority (91%) of mentions of Trump in the mainstream media were in a negative context.

Only 9% of news stories on Trump carried by the mainstream networks were positive towards him.

Some of the outlets that were not allowed to attend Friday’s session are ones that Trump has criticized over their bias, including CNN which he once branded as “fake news”.

Last week, Trump vowed to achieve his legislative agenda despite the “lies, misrepresentations and false stories” thrown at him by the media.

White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said on Friday that “claims that outlets were excluded are not factual.”

“The pool was there, so various media mediums were represented,” she wrote in an email quoted by The Hill.

White House blocks several media outlets from press briefing

Some of these like CNN should be permanently barred from all Trump administration press conferences. It's no big deal since they have no interest in reporting the facts, anyway.

The media should be encouraged to scrutinize our politicians, not bow down. If you bar CNN then the next democrat president should be allow to bar Fox. Does that sound right to you? While CNN has gone overboard with the opinion panel discussions, that is not fake news. I challenge you to point out where they have made up sources or reported false information. Fake News is a grossly overblown charge.

The ones that were excluded are all biased "news" that ask only gotcha questions at news conferences as opposed to factual questions to better inform their readers. Washington Post should have been included in the list of those excluded. In reporting this same story the Washington Post left out all the major news sources that were in the conference.

Thanks for the honest response and for using biased news instead of fake news. I completely understand the "biased" claim as there is a disproportionate amount of negatives Trump stories to positive Trump stories. Not much different than the negative Obama stories on Fox vs the positive, right?

But surly you don't support the white house strong arming the media do you? Gotchya questions might be annoying but it is our politicians job to answer them. It is a slippery slope if we start allowing the white house to pick and choose media outlets and also punish those that they don't agree with. Just imagine if Obama locked out Fox. What Trump does now and what you support sets a precedent towards what you'd have to support a future democratic leader to do as well. So answer carefully.

Biased, irresponsible reporters at CNN and, sad to say, New York Times, BBC and the Washington Post deserve no more respect than protesters carrying signs and screaming political slogans in the streets. No one will try to stop either group from screaming or printing what they want, but neither should the government legitimize by treating these people as if they were responsible journalists.

Can you point to an example or two? Lets go with CNN. Which recent story did they not cover responsibly?

 

[Dr Grump]

You don't know anything about freedom, dingbat.....LIARS get no say.

Says the guy who is lauding the banning of accredited bona fide news outlets. Yeah, you're the poster boy for freedom in the US.


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[Avatar4321]

Good Gawd you people are stupid. You would think the first thing a person tries to understand when discussing politics is the Constitution..

That requires them to care about the constitution and the liberty it protects. They don't. It's just a tool for them to misuse when they think it advantageous and ignore when they dont

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

You don't know anything about freedom, dingbat.....LIARS get no say.

you know that Trump called the media pretending to be "John Miller" ....that is what I call FAKE

 

[Tom Horn]

The first step in fascism is eliminating dissent

When that "dissent" is sedition and treason that's correct. It's a pity Trump isn't a fascist because if he was, most to the NYTimes editorial staff would be floating face-down in the East River.

 

[Avatar4321]

There goes our 1st amendment rights, whats next?

Horseshit, flake. No one is preventing them from speaking. Trump is exercising his free speech to speak to whom he wishes - which ain't fake news agencies. Pay back is a bitch.

Controlling and demonizing the free press is the kind of democracy you applaud? Think about it. If you love America, why? Our freedoms? Doesn't sound like it.

NEVER question the Press' lies! You un-American Rube!

Why does Trump hate the press? because the press is calling him on his outrageous lies! Trump says something that is demonstrably untrue. Then, when this is pointed out, he cries "fake news" "alternative facts"!

Meanwhile, the dedicated partisans who fail to see that the emperor is, indeed, without clothes, rallies to his indefensible side and chimes along with the idiot that the press is lying.

All the while, our basic freedom of a free press is being eroded by an amateur, a petulant game show host with no statesmanlike qualities. And we're all supposed to skip along merrily with this subversion of America.

The same reason Jefferson disliked them.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

• 
  We Warned You This Would Happen.

 

[Dr Grump]

The first step in fascism is eliminating dissent

When that "dissent" is sedition and treason that's correct. It's a pity Trump isn't a fascist because if he was, most to the NYTimes editorial staff would be floating face-down in the East River.

Why? He doesn't like being investigated for the lying douche he is? He settled the Trump 'University' case because he was right? They shouldn't have reported on how it was ripping people off? What scumbags they are!

 

[TheOldSchool]

The first step in fascism is eliminating dissent

When that "dissent" is sedition and treason that's correct. It's a pity Trump isn't a fascist because if he was, most to the NYTimes editorial staff would be floating face-down in the East River.

Baby steps

 

[Slade3200]

The White House on Friday blocked a number of news outlets from covering spokesman Sean Spicer’s question-and-answer session.

According to The Hill, Spicer decided to hold an off-camera “gaggle” with reporters inside his West Wing office instead of the traditional on-camera briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.

Among the outlets not permitted to cover the gaggle were CNN, The New York Times, The Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, BBC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News.

Those who were allowed to enter included journalists from Breitbart, the Washington Times and One America News Network.

News organizations such as ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Reuters, Bloomberg and McClatchy were invited as well.

The incident comes amid President Donald Trump’s longstanding feud with the media over their biased coverage against him.

During the election campaign, research indicated that an overwhelming majority (91%) of mentions of Trump in the mainstream media were in a negative context.

Only 9% of news stories on Trump carried by the mainstream networks were positive towards him.

Some of the outlets that were not allowed to attend Friday’s session are ones that Trump has criticized over their bias, including CNN which he once branded as “fake news”.

Last week, Trump vowed to achieve his legislative agenda despite the “lies, misrepresentations and false stories” thrown at him by the media.

White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said on Friday that “claims that outlets were excluded are not factual.”

“The pool was there, so various media mediums were represented,” she wrote in an email quoted by The Hill.

White House blocks several media outlets from press briefing

Some of these like CNN should be permanently barred from all Trump administration press conferences. It's no big deal since they have no interest in reporting the facts, anyway.

The media should be encouraged to scrutinize our politicians, not bow down. If you bar CNN then the next democrat president should be allow to bar Fox. Does that sound right to you? While CNN has gone overboard with the opinion panel discussions, that is not fake news. I challenge you to point out where they have made up sources or reported false information. Fake News is a grossly overblown charge.

The ones that were excluded are all biased "news" that ask only gotcha questions at news conferences as opposed to factual questions to better inform their readers. Washington Post should have been included in the list of those excluded. In reporting this same story the Washington Post left out all the major news sources that were in the conference.

Thanks for the honest response and for using biased news instead of fake news. I completely understand the "biased" claim as there is a disproportionate amount of negatives Trump stories to positive Trump stories. Not much different than the negative Obama stories on Fox vs the positive, right?

But surly you don't support the white house strong arming the media do you? Gotchya questions might be annoying but it is our politicians job to answer them. It is a slippery slope if we start allowing the white house to pick and choose media outlets and also punish those that they don't agree with. Just imagine if Obama locked out Fox. What Trump does now and what you support sets a precedent towards what you'd have to support a future democratic leader to do as well. So answer carefully.

Biased, irresponsible reporters at CNN and, sad to say, New York Times, BBC and the Washington Post deserve no more respect than protesters carrying signs and screaming political slogans in the streets. No one will try to stop either group from screaming or printing what they want, but neither should the government legitimize by treating these people as if they were responsible journalists.

Also, do you hold Trump and his white house to the same standards? It might be enlightening for you to put the WH and Trump false statements up agains the CNN false statements and see whose list is bigger.

 

[Tom Horn]

You don't know anything about freedom, dingbat.....LIARS get no say.

Says the guy who is lauding the banning of accredited bona fide news outlets. Yeah, you're the poster boy for freedom in the US.


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"accredited" by who? Obviously a few of them have lost their credentials to report on the White House....CNN and the NYTimes should never be let back in...they're lower than snake-shit.

 

[Dr Grump]

We Warned You This Would Happen.

The horrible, awful part in all of this is that he has to last. I don't think he will. I think he'll get bored more than anything. But Pence is just so much worse and could do a lot worse damage. I see Trump as like a little toddler in his play pen throwing out his toys on occasion. But Pence? Pence is a whole new ball game....

 

[MrShangles]

They don't report the facts anyway. Burn CNN


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[Avatar4321]

There goes our 1st amendment rights, whats next?

Horseshit, flake. No one is preventing them from speaking. Trump is exercising his free speech to speak to whom he wishes - which ain't fake news agencies. Pay back is a bitch.

Controlling and demonizing the free press is the kind of democracy you applaud? Think about it. If you love America, why? Our freedoms? Doesn't sound like it.

NEVER question the Press' lies! You un-American Rube!

Why does Trump hate the press? because the press is calling him on his outrageous lies! Trump says something that is demonstrably untrue. Then, when this is pointed out, he cries "fake news" "alternative facts"!

Meanwhile, the dedicated partisans who fail to see that the emperor is, indeed, without clothes, rallies to his indefensible side and chimes along with the idiot that the press is lying.

All the while, our basic freedom of a free press is being eroded by an amateur, a petulant game show host with no statesmanlike qualities. And we're all supposed to skip along merrily with this subversion of America.

Trump lies! Get some new material
Everyoen knows this. Everyone also knows those people kicked out have been gargling bullshit for months.

And that those people just weeks ago were complaining that other news outlets weren't kicked out.

That's what's messed up. It's disingenuous

" you can't let those media organizations in here!"

Those complaining are kicked out

"He's attacking the freedom of the press!"

 

[owebo]

Good....fascist liberal propaganda fake news organizations have no place there.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Can you point to an example or two? Lets go with CNN. Which recent story did they not cover responsibly?

CNN Report: The White House's Response To Allegations Of Collusion With Russia "Ends Up Confirming The Reporting"
JAKE TAPPER (HOST): The White House is pushing back strongly today against the CNN exclusive CNN reporters found that the FBI rejected a request made by the White House to try to publicly knock down reporting by both CNN and The New York Times about contacts between President Trump's campaign staff and Russians known to US Intelligence. CNN's Jim Sciutto joins me now. And Jim, the White House 's push back is interesting because it actually ends up confirming the reporting.

JIM SCIUTTO: Between all the push back and the normal insults and the obfuscation this essential fact, the White House confirms it did speak to the FBI about these communications and did ask for help knocking down stories describing those communications. And more broadly, the White House has not denied the existence of these communications between Trump advisers and Russians known to U.S. Intelligence during the campaign as CNN reported last week.

 

[Dr Grump]

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"accredited" by who? Obviously a few of them have lost their credentials to report on the White House....CNN and the NYTimes should never be let back in...they're lower than snake-shit.

Why are they lower than snake shit? I watched and read all sorts over the election cycle. Fox were just awful. Terrible. Not even interested in the issues, just bashing Hillary 24/7. You okay with that? If you are, no big deal. That is your right. But please, don't ever, ever, EVER lecture me about freedom again. Ever. You obviously do not believe in it.

 

[Tom Horn]

Why? He doesn't like being investigated for the lying douche he is? He settled the Trump 'University' case because he was right? They shouldn't have reported on how it was ripping people off? What scumbags they are!

 

[Avatar4321]

How does doing what he did affect the first? Try actually coming up with a response this time

You are of course FOS, because you know what your reaction would have been had Obama blocked 3 or 4 conservative news sources.

He did block them. Many of them. You guys were literally complaining about the fact that trump stopped blocking them less than a month ago

 

[Dschrute3]

Sounds like a lot of Democrat Fake News Butthurt. Another wonderful Trump success story. Keep it up sir.