WH considering ending press briefings, and not allowing media on WH grounds

[pbrower2a]

Not surprised.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-white-house-reporters_us_587b82e5e4b0e58057ff43a5

And you know, this is one thing I don't mind. It's not an attack on freedom of the press. It's stripping away their long-held privileges. Hopefully it makes them do real investigative journalism again.

And they will, as they will be looking for corruption, incompetence, and consequences of an extreme agenda. Such does not requite schmoozing with the President. Obama was erudite and engaging enough that he diverted journalists from doing their job. The ideal journalist might be a CPA or a historian...

  

[Waterfall]

Hopefully it makes them do real investigative journalism again.

What is "real" (as opposed to "not real") investigative journalism, and when did they used to do it?

[EnglishPete]

And now confirmation that far from abolishing White House Press correspondents the Trump White House will expand their number. Jim Hoft has confirmed that 'The Gateway Pundit' will have its own White House Press correspondent.

[EnglishPete]

So the 49 schmucks who can occupy the current briefing room are bitching because Trump's people want to find a big enough room to hold double the number of schmucks, and that's reducing media access? 

And we have Democrat party hacks Media Matters confirming what all this upset is about. The liberal media in the White House is upset that they won't be an exclusive little club anymore

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https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/17/trump-wants-flood-white-house-press-briefings-sycophants-and-propagandists/215030

In other words 'we're upset because the liberal establishment news is losing its cosy little oligopoly'.

I don't agree at all with their ideology but Media Matters were spot on with their prediction. Yesterday at the White House Press Briefing Sean Spicer gave the first question to the New York Post and the second question to the Christian Broadcasting Network News. Today he gave his first question to Laura Ingraham's Lifezette and the second question to Breitbart.

[EnglishPete]

So when Spicer gets a tough question, he can dodge it and give the next question to 'The Gateway Pundit' or OANN or Breitbart or Sputnik. Nice.

Nope, he's done one better than that as you see in the above post. I have to say I approve, the liberal legacy media outlets have been getting not only the first questions but all the questions to themselves for far too long.

[EnglishPete]

Daily Caller also got a question today. Trump team really changing things at the Press Briefings.

[EnglishPete]

Good article on why this is such a great change

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http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/25/trump-white-houses-revolutionary-approach-to-the-media/

One big problem, from a conservative point of view, about the liberal dominated legacy media isn't that they asked critical questions but that all of those critical questions are querying government from a liberal perspective. Conservative politicians have accepted this for far too long. From an Overton window framing perspective that's terrible for conservative/right wing politicians. The right wing media have made clear they're willing to ask critical questions of the Trump adminstration but they're doing it from a conservative/right wing perpective.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I think it's pretty clear by now that the White House has two good (for them) reasons to go this route:

One, to protect the illegitimate president-baby's precious widdle sensitive ego. And I can't really blame them. Who wants to put up with ongoing tantrums from an adult (who's your boss) acting like a spoiled pre-teen?

Two, the less access between Trump and the press, even indirectly, the fewer damagingly stupid things he can get out.

[Meclazine for Israel]

This is cool.

I would prefer if all of Trumps' announcements came through Twitter.