CNN, NY Times, LA Times and Politico blocked from Friday's White House press conference

[True Dough]

CNN reporting on this right now.

UNBELIEVABLE GALL by Drumpf!

[malaise]

1. Only Fke News need attend

All respectable media should stay away

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. They Really Need To Go To All Out War Against Trump.

Reporters should all walk out of the press conferences and refuse to attend in support.

[Vinca]

3. The remaining news outlets should get up and exit en masse.

Today it's CNN, tomorrow it's them.

[Justice]

6. or find other ways to support ousted group - co-bylines etc.

[Amaryllis]

52. Relevant thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016179197

[True Dough]

10. It really does seem to be heading in this direction

It's a concerted effort to discredit and weaken the media. Trump will have a full-blown propaganda unit anytime now.

[BSdetect]

32. Absolutely.

[herding cats]

34. AP and Time did. nt

[Alice11111]

46. He's putting them in "time out." Next time, if they are good

to him... kiss his ass or at least do not report real news about his scandals and lies...he will let them in. He will keep the others out who did real reporting. He is going to punish them like children, as he said he wanted to do with women who had an abortion.

As he said about Putin, he said nice things about me, so I like him. This is his standard: Say nice things, good, you get a star. Say truth, bad things, punishment. He has made it very clear.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. And 40% of America cheers this on, which is the real problem

Conservative electorate dont deserve this beautiful country.

[kentuck]

7. Wow!

Something is getting very close.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Walk out.

No self-respecting journalist should
honor such goons with their presence.
Walk the fuck out.

[malaise]

9. AP and Time boycotted

Good

[Vinca]

14. Bravo to them.

[triron]

44. Shame on WaPo and NBC, CBS

[malaise]

50. Wapo was banned n/t

[True Dough]

11. A CNN correspondent just said that the Associated Press and TIME walked out of the press conference

in protest.

Good on them.

[asiliveandbreathe]

12. Talk about "cutting off your nose to spite your face"..

Over reaction - as usual....

What the hell is his point..anything said now at PC, will take a backseat to news agencies being blocked..

Ignorant ranting arse!

[Thrill]

13. Communist Rule is Here

[pkdu]

15. Is it Fascism yet? nt

[northoftheborder]

16. Those shut out should double down on their investigative reporting.

They should not even mention the press conf. in their reporting. The rest of the reputable news orgs. should walk out, and stay out until invited back in, and also not report on the press conference.

[Lanius]

17. So what "news" organizations were picked to take their place?

Breitbart, the Daily Stormer and Free Republic?

[Fred Sanders]

20. Since none of those are actual news with actual journalists then NONE will be replaced or respected.

[LisaM]

18. It bears repeating the perhaps CNN shouldn't have given him so much undeserved airtime

throughout the primary season in particular.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. or hired corey lewandowski

[LisaM]

23. That too!

Not that I think it should work this way, but if they made him, perhaps they can unmake him.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Doesn't excuse this type of autocratic behavior. nt

[True Dough]

19. I'm surprised the Washington Post

wasn't among those banned by Drumpf.

[Brother Buzz]

26. Patience, Grasshopper

[triron]

22. This is insane!

please let this nightmare end! Witches?

[OldHippieChick]

25. We need to bombard other reputable news organizations

w/ our opinion that they should have walked out w/ Time and AP. Cut him off from all but the alt-right and he won't be happy not seeing his face plastered all over NBC, CBS, ABC etc.

[moondust]

27. "Flatter us or else!"

"No poop for you!"

[RKP5637]

28. AS DICTATOR TRUMP DEMANDED! n/t

[Paladin]

29. Full-scale boycott by all responsible media, by day's end. DO IT! Just fucking DO IT! (nt)

[meadowlander]

30. Any other news organisation with a shred of credibility needs to walk out.

[Dawson Leery]

31. Putin's influence is apparent in America.

[True Dough]

33. Yes

This is right out of his playbook!

[HAB911]

35. This should mean all out war

[BSdetect]

36. Scrotus deserves to be treated like a fascist goon.

Print only stuff re his nasty history over and over.

[Jarqui]

37. The beginning of the end

what a stupid man

[True Dough]

38. There have been so many "beginnings of the end" with this twit!

I can't wait for his political demise to finally arrive!

[Jarqui]

39. I didn't post for 15 weeks because I was so sorry it even began

The (peaceful, non violent) end of his time in the White House cannot possibly come too soon.

[Alice11111]

40. For sure...but, the end of him or democracy?

[Johnny2X2X]

41. So predictable

We knew this would happen. Trump basically said as much during his campaign. And he's repeated his line that, "there will be consequences." for the media that doesn't cover him favorably.

This is unprecedented in US history and it's only going to get worse. Wait until he has an actual international crisis to deal with and the media criticizes him, that's when he start talking about throwing media members in jail.

Everything he said in his campaign, believe it. He aims to turn this country into a fascist state.

You will see media imprisoned. And eventually you will see dissidents publicly executed. This is going to happen, Bannon and Trump aren't pretending anything else.

[True Dough]

42. And then there was Bannon's warning yesterday

Regarding the media: “It’s not only not going to get better, it’s going to get worse every day.”

He knew what was coming when he said it. Little doubt about it.

[Takket]

43. 1st amendment 1791-2017. RIP

[Alice11111]

45. Fake presser. Not like they would be missing news if walked

He insults them and calls on stooges. They should come up with an alternative where they all get together after his fake presser and the real media add real info. Maybe pass around the moderator's job.

[Crunchy Frog]

47. Wear it as a badge of honor.

[True Dough]

48. Even Bret Baier of Fox News thinks this development is not good

Link to tweet

[sunonmars]

49. More BBC too,others

Link to tweet

[MFM008]

51. Who do these

Pieces of shit think they are.
Most were appointed.
The media had better figure out how to deal with them.