Kellyanne Conway and Trump can't stop reporting by turning their backs on the press

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The Hill ‏@thehill 13m13 minutes ago
Conway: Trump administration will "rethink" relationship with the press http://hill.cm/IIyqm1M

This is one of the best delusions that's emerged from the Trump presidency, that shutting the press out from WH communications is going to stop them from reporting. Thing is, it's the politicians and the WH who rely on the mainstream media to deliver their pablum to the people. The idea that reporting would suffer without access is a joke. If anything, it would improve without the daily drivel from this cabal of inveterate liars that just assumed power.

Hell, the alt-outlets she and Bannon think they can rely on don't need to be fed content, they're too invested in making it up. I think most Americans would be relieved to know their news sources don't depend on being stovepiped stories from the Trump administration, especially since it's become clear that there isn't a lick of credibility in anything the new administration says.

Yesterday was just funny and sad, watching Kellyanne offer up her 'alternative facts' like a good little fascist, and having them batted away by people who are practically begging the Trump WH to play it straight so they can instinctively nuzzle up to them once more.

How delicious was it to watch Chucky Todd baffled and chagrined like a spurned lover as Kellyanne threatened to dump him and play the field? I mean, who is really going to want a rebound relationship with that?

[Cha]

1. That's right.. it's going to be better reporting

if they do.

[KittyWampus]

8. Cha, some journalists will make their mark in history in the coming years. And it's not going to be

from being stenographers for Trump or Bannon.

Judith Miller left her mark. And not in a good way.

[C_U_L8R]

2. They are not in control

They more they think they can rule the media,
the worse it gets, for them.
Truth always, eventually, prevails.

[RKP5637]

3. Next, will be The Trump Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Ministry_of_Public_Enlightenment_and_Propaganda

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4. v

The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead. And Trump’s press secretary killed it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-traditional-way-of-reporting-on-a-president-is-dead-and-trumps-press-secretary-killed-it/2017/01/22/75403a00-e0bf-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?postshare=7401485180333939&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.50a49d904711

[rock]

5. They are clearly

NOT the sharpest tools in the shed.

[bdamomma]

6. these jerks need to be called out

for their alternate facts of just being liars.

Damn. This is very dangerous.

[truebluegreen]

7. With any luck at all they can do us a great service:

kill access journamalism.

ETA: Ack! I find myself agreeing with Ari Fleischer! omg