as opposed to the 98% bad press he's already getting?
Posted on 08/10/2018 1:42:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Endorsements.
First of all, they are NOT "the press." They are corporate media organizations (CMOs).
The press in the Constitutional sense is a device that can be used by people to publish their thoughts and opinions.
Every American, including those who run or work for CMOs, has a right to freely use a press to disseminate his or her views on any subject at any time.
But the reporters at NPR, NYT, Washington POS, CNN, MSNBC and all the other networks (including Fox News) do NOT have any constitutional right to have access and be heard at White House "Press" conferences.
They don't have that right, because neither I nor anybody else who posts opinions in print, by broadcast or online has that right, even though we use the press to publish our opinions, as I do regularly on Free Republic. (After all, the Internet is a means of publishing thoughts and opinions and therefore is a "press" in the Constitutional sense.)
And another "right" that these CMOs definitely DO NOT have, is the right not to be insulted by the President, who did not surrender his own First Amendment right to free speech when took the oath of office.
Being invited to participate in a White House "press" conference is therefore a privilege that can be extended or withdrawn purely at the discretion of the White House (or Congress, or the Judiciary in their own venues).
I so wish that at Trump's next "press conference," he will state this reality once and for all. And then I hope he will take a question from Jim Acosta, after prefacing it with the following statement:
"I'm going now to take a question now from Jim Acosta purely as a courtesy, albeit an undeserved one, because this is going to be his last White House 'press conference' during my administration. Additionally, I am revoking the press credentials of CNN,the racist New York Times, and a number of other Corporate Media Organizations who will soon be notified of their change in status. OK Jim, what's your question?"
Then I hope that in the future the White House will issue "Media Passes" to other respectable press users - bloggers, authors, YouTubers, etc. who will be invited to future Media Conferences, provided that they show courtesy, intelligence and respect.
And as for the CMOs, they can watch the President's Media Conferences on C-SPAN and then write whatever the hell they want to about them.
Engaging in and calling for collusion!!
Exactly. As if they're not doing this already.
Haha....knock yourself out, editors.
Not even their mothers read the dreck published by Leftist papers such as the Boston Glob.
In the last presidential election, ALL of the newspapers of any city of any size failed to endorse Donald J. Trump. He doesn’t need them.
This has been happening since he declared his run for Office. What’s new here??
That’s what the Lame Street Media does every day. Program after program discusses the same anti-Trump story every day..
Also......What a NEWSPAPER????
Do they not know of Al Gores inter-web??
The MSM has argued that there is no conspiracy, that is, no explicit agreement, among them; rather, they all just happen to think the same, because, natch, they are all better educated and more intelligent people who can perceive the truth better than hoi polloi. Now, the MSM is jettisoning that flimsy argument and entering into an explicit conspiracy.
How could they more transparently show themselves to be hypocritical liars and intellectually bankrupt?
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
Strange business plan, I repeatedly see it and do not understand.
They could:
Write editorials that appeal to right, center and left = large addressable market. OR, go all-in left and have a smaller addressable market.
And as a bonus in corporate Darwinism, they can push their political bias to being completely not credible when reporting ANYTHING.
Good luck with that...
The Boston Globe has gotten their marching orders from Media Matters.
Maybe it is a cost cutting move.
One editorial for all the papers everyday. It would reduce staff counts and it couldn’t possibly hurt quality.
When you remember that the big newspapers and TV networks (or Corporate Media Organizations, as someone put it) are merely the Propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, they aren’t looking for normal profits, as you would expect from normal businesses. Government handouts that they’d receive, should they help get Dems elected, is what they want.
Wouldn’t that be…wait for it…
Collusion!
Just the latest agitprop from Moscow-on-the-Charles.
as opposed to the 98% bad press he's already getting?
As you say they are not a “press” as it has been understood.
When they censor the news, like not naming a criminal suspect who is black, or a democRAT, or a muzloid, because the feelings of those groups might be hurt, or it may perpetuate a stereotype, that is not being a journalist. That is putting your thumb on the scales to push an agenda.
They have become an enemy of the people. They are not reporting the news, they are inserting themselves into the news and are manufacturing storylines.
That sounds right, just a propaganda channel.
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