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maxsolomon

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3. I don't watch these events. How many questions actually get asked?

Reply to senseandsensibility (Original post)

Mon Aug 25, 2025, 08:32 PM

Aug 25

Who is asking them? MAGA-journos? Is MFer calling on specific reporters? Are the Legacy Press getting a chance to ask much?

How long does he bloviate after each question?

Your post makes it sound as if it's the Legacy Press that's kowtowing or helpless in the face of his BS.

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This is why Lawrence O'Donnell calls them the worst White House Press Corps Ever [View all] senseandsensibility Aug 25 OP

They are just doing what the press does in the rest of the dictatorships. Klarkashton Aug 25 #1

The ones who attend these "pressers" obviously senseandsensibility Aug 25 #2

I don't watch these events. How many questions actually get asked? maxsolomon Aug 25 #3

MSNBC needs to do what the Break the Fake guys on TVP do when the Russian press is talking, clown noses lol n/t Cheezoholic Aug 25 #4

Are there even any Traditional mainstream media outlets allowed any more? Wiz Imp Aug 25 #5

AP is still banned as far as I know because senseandsensibility Aug 25 #6

The current White House "press" corps maxrandb Aug 25 #7

The Fourth Estate is metastasizing into the Failed Estate Martin Eden Aug 25 #8

They are declining before our eyes senseandsensibility Aug 25 #10

The question is: Martin Eden Aug 25 #11

I've come around now to the idea senseandsensibility Aug 25 #12

I'm trying to imagine being a journalist, knowing what needs to be done Martin Eden Aug 25 #14

True, and these particular journalists senseandsensibility Aug 26 #15

Reminds me of a quote from Upton Sinclair: Martin Eden Aug 26 #19

The last time I watched one of those horrible spectacles... Orrex Aug 25 #9

IMHO,no legitimate news organization should give the Whitehouse the time of day. Buddyzbuddy Aug 25 #13

It might be just a thought, senseandsensibility Aug 26 #16

Thank you. Buddyzbuddy Aug 26 #20

The corporate media is part and parcel of the fascist coup Mysterian Aug 26 #17

A White House press conference is now just another Trump Rally. thought crime Aug 26 #18