Trump threatens to cancel WH press briefings

[KingOrfeo]

Trump threatens to cancel White House briefings because it is ‘not possible’ for his staff to speak with ‘perfect accuracy’.

Gee, Donald, you noticed that too?

 

[chillywilly2]

So... its too hard to get it right so we just won't do it...everybody keeps confusing us with the facts

 

[james_1957]

Former Obama aide: End daily televised press briefings

Reporters and White House officials often express frustration with the modern version of an older tradition: The daily press briefing.

Now a former White House press spokesman is offering a suggestion: End the briefings.

"The daily briefing has become a worthless chore for reporters, an embarrassing nuisance to administration staff, and a source of added friction between the two camps," writes former White House assistant press secretary Reid Cherlin in The New Republic.

"It's time to do the humane, obvious thing and get rid of it altogether," he said.

Cherlin, who handled health care and other issues for the Obama administration, recites a familiar litany of complaints. Press secretaries tend to stick to prepared talking points rather than answering questions; reporters preen for the television cameras, treating the briefings as interrogations rather than forums to try and elicit information.

In making his argument for termination, Cherlin provides an interesting contrast in style between the two press secretaries Obama has employed, Robert Gibbs and Jay Carney.

Writes Cherlin: "Gibbs often made me cringe by ignoring the talking points; Carney makes me cringe by using them -- but the effect is the same, which is to say, ridiculous."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/theo...-carney-robert-gibbs-press-briefings/2577745/

 

[zipman]

Trump threatens to cancel White House briefings because it is ‘not possible’ for his staff to speak with ‘perfect accuracy’.

Gee, Donald, you noticed that too?

Its turning into more and more of a circus and its all because of him. This is a complete result of his terrible and ineffective leadership style.

But it's fun to watch!

 

[needit700]

King is just anotyher fool who spews

F A K E N E W S!!!!

 

[Rightguide]

When all objectivity in the media has been set aside in order to pursue a policy of contempt and active subversion of a lawfully elected President to the detriment of the country and the Constitution, I'm not sure the President needs to participate in his own destruction.

It is the Democrat Party and the left, in general, who represent the most destructive force in the United States today. Not Donald Trump.

 

[KingOrfeo]

When all objectivity in the media has been set aside . . .

Not much point in reading further, is there?

 

[Rightguide]

Not much point in reading further, is there?

Not for you, since you have no interest in the truth. The MSM serves no other function whatsoever than to advance the agenda of the Democrat Party, period.

 

[zipman]

Not much point in reading further, is there?

The right wing sure does love its dictatorship.

They would prefer right wing propaganda put out by glorious leader.

Trump's presidency is highlighting the extent of their hypocrisy perfectly.

He's incompetent and so are most of the people he's hired.

 

[pointless]

Not for you, since you have no interest in the truth. The MSM serves no other function whatsoever than to advance the agenda of the Democrat Party, period.

minitrue approved. doubleplusgood.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Since when has the media been objective? They are in the business of selling news not being an enlightened source of information.

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[KingOrfeo]

Let us all keep in mind that "fair" and "balanced" are not the same thing. Giving equal time to round-Earth and flat-Earth theories would be balanced but not fair. The MSM are fair; Fox, etc., are not.

 

[BotanyBoy]

The right wing sure does love its dictatorship.

You think the Trump presidency is a dictatorship?

LOL....your idiocy knows no bounds does it?

 

[KingOrfeo]

You think the Trump presidency is a dictatorship?

He's only a wannabe dictator at this point, but he certainly is the most authoritarian person ever to sit in the OO.

 

[water505]

This is so typical.

Just in the past week or so a late night talk show host said Trump is Putin's cock holster. One "journalist" rolled his eyes while interviewing Kellyanne Conway. During his interview with Trump, Lester Holt interrupted him nine times in the span of two minutes. After Comey was fired Chris Matthews, another so-called journalist, said there is a whiff of fascism in the air.

Anyone who denies the existence of liberal bias in the media is either a liar or a blithering idiot.

If people from different networks treated Obama that way would you have denied there was conservative bias?

 

[BotanyBoy]

He's only a wannabe dictator at this point, but he certainly is the most authoritarian person ever to sit in the OO.

LMFAO!!!!

And here comes KO following up zip's derp with this gem.


The only thing Trump is the "most" in is pissing off the left and sending them into conniption fits for doing shit they either have or totally would support a (D) doing.

Otherwise he's been pretty mediocre and standard faire (R) shit head there to line their pockets. An anti-EPA Obama at this point....and I think that's what really irks (D)'s the most about Trump LOL

 

[Lancecastor]

Hope Hicks, please.

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[Conager]

Maybe he should do like Barack Obama did and just threatened not to allow people that he doesn't agree with that the press conference.

 

[RobDownSouth]

He's only a wannabe dictator at this point, but he certainly is the most authoritarian person ever to sit in the OO.

He's still a Reichstag Fire and/or a WTC Plane Crash away from a full dictatorship, but he's certainly ready to capitalize should a crisis occur.

Maybe he should do like Barack Obama did and just threatened not to allow people that he doesn't agree with that the press conference.

Pretty weaksauce deflection, even for you.
You probably should leave the "But Mom! The other side does it tooooooooo" whines to BotanyBoi.

 

[KingOrfeo]

This is so typical.

Just in the past week or so a late night talk show host said Trump is Putin's cock holster.

Fair comment. But Colbert ain't what we typically think of as "news media."

One "journalist" rolled his eyes while interviewing Kellyanne Conway.

Fair comment. She was saying something incredibly stupid at the time.

During his interview with Trump, Lester Holt interrupted him nine times in the span of two minutes.

Nothing about the practice of good journalism forbids interrupting the subject of an interview.

After Comey was fired Chris Matthews, another so-called journalist, said there is a whiff of fascism in the air.

Fair comment indeed, as everyone knows who has been paying Trump any attention at all for the past year. He lacks the imagination to be a fascist, but fills any room he's in with more than a whiff of it.

If people from different networks treated Obama that way would you have denied there was conservative bias?

Yes, if Obama were acting like Trump at the time.

 

[Conager]

My very favorite part of the Trump presidency is he doesn't have to actually do anything and that any policy or take any action at all to wined up the KO contingent


A tweet is all it takes.

Nothing has changed since the campaign. Those that support him take him seriously but not literally. And those that don't take him literally but, to their peril, not seriously.

 

[zipman]

He's only a wannabe dictator at this point, but he certainly is the most authoritarian person ever to sit in the OO.

Agreed but he's working his way up to it.

Demanding loyalty from Comey who is supposed to be independent.

Belligerent of all media that criticizes him.

Threatening to not hold press conferences.


The pattern is there.

 

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[SyKoKo]

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[SyKoKo]

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