White House Warns Reporters Not to Report on Instructions About Not Reporting on Press Conference.

[L. Coyote]

White House Warns Reporters Not to Report on Instructions About Not Reporting on Thursday’s Press Conference

he Trump administration, acting on the fairly sound logic that its supporters don't care in any way whatsoever about the civic principle that the government should be scrutinized by a free press, has started to cut down on the number of press conferences it gives that occur on camera. Wednesday, the administration announced that Thursday's* press briefing by Sarah Huckabee Sanders would be one such no-video affair, then introduced a Kafka-esque twist by declaring that the announcement itself was "NOT REPORTABLE."

[Lindsay]

1. Orwell warned us

there'd be days like this....

[Ilsa]

2. They think they work for someone else, not us. nt

[FiveGoodMen]

9. They do

It's not supposed to be that way, but no one stops them so ... they DO work for someone other than us.

We should have put our collective foot down long ago (when it would have been easier) but nobody wanted to be an extremist, a socialist, a Michael Moore fan...

Anything to convince the cool kids that we weren't some old hippies.

So we went along with Privatize, Run the Government Like a Business, The Worst Words Are I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help.

It was always obvious where this was leading, but social pressure and TV propaganda rendered most of us utterly useless until it was too late.

Shame on America. It didn't have to be like this.

[L. Coyote]

11. INDEED, they work for 400 highest-income households that get 33 billion tax cut in #WealthyCare

I didn't go along, but that kind of money buys elections and influence, and pays off criminals to do the dirty work to make sure we are suppressed and cheated out of our majority representation.

[ProudLib72]

3. Spicey thinks reporters are only after fame

Spicer: White House reporters trying to be 'YouTube stars':
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/338763-spicer-white-house-reporters-trying-to-be-youtube-stars

But who is trying to be a Twitter star with millions upon millions of bots keeping up with every one of his early AM shit-tweets?

[Cha]

4. So much for the warning then.

[herding cats]

5. Perfect graphic on Slate!

This is a perfect depiction of this WH's press relations dream.

[tanyev]

6. Founding Fathers never dreamed the entire leadership of House and Senate would be compromised.

[herding cats]

7. Not to mention their dream of stacking the courts.

This is potentially an endgame for what the Founding Fathers envisioned.

[tanyev]

8. I totally meant to put that comment in a different thread.

But thanks for replying back to me!

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. That comment works in every thread these days.

[NCjack]

10. Sarah Huck shall not appear in televised press conferences. That's one way

to starve SNL for comedy material.

[L. Coyote]

13. Man, it didn't take long for these fucking amateurs to destroy everything

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[L. Coyote]

14. CNN brings courtroom sketch artist to White House press briefing By Brandon Carter - 06/23/17

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/339217-cnn-brings-courtroom-sketch-artist-to-white-house-press-briefing

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