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posted by martyb on Monday June 26 2017, @02:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the media-the-4th-estate dept.

http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-sketch-artist-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer-2017-6

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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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @06:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @06:11PM (#531443)

    Except it isn't just office meeting minutes. It is a word for word transcription of what is said. After the meetings you're going to have people looking through every word that was said looking for a way to make tomorrow's headlines.

    On the topic of gaslight, I will say something I've observed about the Trump administration is troubling to me. It's pretty safe to say that he's gone through an infinitely more vicious directionless attack from the media, with a unified front, than any politician - ever. Take even this [nytimes.com] - an archive of the NYT coverage during the height of Watergate. It's amazing to see the impartial and detailed reporting of the facts compared to the frenzied speculation and interjection of opinion that's become standard for them today.

    But anyhow, the thing that's troubling to me is that this coverage seems to have had minimal to no effect. And I think it has to do with how Trump handles the heat. When he apologized over the 'grab them by the pussy' banter, he got torn to pieces by the media for it - and took a substantial hit in the polls. Apologizing or even accepting that you are wrong is not seen as a strength of character, but something to be used to attack somebody with. He's made a lot of incorrect statements and done plenty of insensitive things since then. He's never once apologized. For that matter he never even acknowledges when he's wrong. I don't think this is anything like gaslighting. It's sadly a result of our current system. This even plays out in social media. When somebody apologizes it's not grounds to accept and move on, it's dogpile time - make them hurt even more! Take for instance 'shirtgate' with the Rosetta scientist Matt Taylor. As he broke into tears a genuine and broken man on a live stream to apologize - there was no sort of media reflect on whether doing this to a person over a t-shirt was appropriate. Instead, it was used to further justify their hostility and aggression and in some cases bring even more - with some calling for his dismissal of a career he worked a lifetime to build... because of a shirt.

    So no, sadly I think the reason people like Trump simply do not apologize and do not back down is because it's simply not smart to do for a person in the public eye. We're nasty little critters anxious to hop on any sign of weakness from our 'enemies.'

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