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15. True, and these particular journalists

Reply to Martin Eden (Reply #14)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 02:38 PM

Aug 26

are not the reporter for the local newspaper of yore that may have been earning a working class salary. Many of them have million dollar contracts to protect.

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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