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In response to the White House's recent trend of prohibiting cameras at press briefings, CNN on Friday said it sent its in-house Supreme Court sketch artist, Bill Hennessy, to Sean Spicer's latest press briefing.
CNN said it "equated press briefings to a Supreme Court argument -- an on-the-record event at which cameras are banned." The network argued sketches of the briefing had news value in the same way courtroom sketches do.
News organizations and the White House Correspondents' Association have protested the Trump administration's decision to scale back on-camera press briefings to unprecedented levels.
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @03:50AM (1 child)
It's so sad that the left, in large part thanks to echo chambers, is becoming so conspiratorially insane as the right. No, Jade Helm was not Obama about to declare martial law and become Hitler. No, the white house secretary doing press gaggles instead of formal briefings is not Trump about to become Hitler. It's ridiculous this needs to be said.
Actually watch a press conference some time. Each and every day it's the same story. We get one question trying to get some quote to spin for the Russia conspiracy of the day. This makes sense. It's pertinent and an issue of the day. The issue is that then that after that question is responded to, it's again asked 30 different ways. And then the conference is over. This isn't being done for the sake of critical and 'hard hitting' journalism - it's being done for the sake of sensationalized headlines that help generate clicks.
The media, likely in part thanks to group like JournoList [wikipedia.org] turned CabaList and other journalistic cabals, is becoming more a branch of propaganda than a group of independent entities. I'd love to see some serious questions on a wide array of topics. What does Trump plans to do about race relations? How does he plan to improve the lives of the poor? If the executive branch takes credit for high jobs numbers, is it not therefore their obligation to accept responsibility for the recent awful jobs numbers? For that matter is it an issue that the jobs figures are only being sustained by McJobs? How about whether changes to the electoral system are necessary? Both the electoral college and first past the post are increasingly archaic, and Trump has previously express confidence he also would have won in a popular system. Perhaps some hard hitting questions on how Trump claimed his administration will 'not pick winners through government subsidies' yet the massive subsidies for fossil fuels continue - subsidies which, by the way, the US is coming under fire from in the G20. But no, instead of actually covering issues we get simplified conspiracy theories that are geared more towards generating clicks for the media than generating information and crucial journalism for the public. And in lack of any real evidence - they primarily rely on provoked gaffes.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 26 2017, @04:42AM
But, 1998 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhW9eJn7rio [youtube.com]