The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead & Trumps press secretary killed it.

[kpete]

Monday, January 23, 2017

Anyone — citizen or journalist — who is surprised by false claims from the new inhabitant of the Oval Office hasn’t been paying attention. That was reinforced when Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told “Meet the Press” Sunday that Spicer had been providing “alternative facts” to what the media had reported, making it clear we’ve gone full Orwell.

Official words do matter, but they shouldn’t be what news organizations pay most attention to, as they try to present the truth about a new administration.

White House press briefings are “access journalism,” in which official statements — achieved by closeness to the source — are taken at face value and breathlessly reported as news. And that is over. Dead.

Spicer’s statement should be seen for what it is: Remarks made over the casket at the funeral of access journalism.


http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-traditional-way-of-reporting-on.html

[hibbing]

1. Ari lied much more subtlety

But that was only about a war based on lies, not something like crowd size.


Peace

[yeoman6987]

2. I wish the media wouldn't give them ammunition

That martin Luther king bust being taken out of the Oval Office and was wrong so now she was able to focus on that. Media is going to have to be completely true every article or if not that will be the focus for the day. They have declared war on the media.

That group in the trump administration are evil!!!!

[Kingofalldems]

4. I wish you would stop blaming everyone but Trump and Co for their lying

and arrogance, yeoman6987.

Trump doesn't like this photo proving him a liar:



The lying of Spicer and Conway have absolutely nothing to do with a reporter's mistake.

[enough]

3. Good riddance. Access journalism is a contradiction in terms. NT