The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
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Now watch as the idiot dissolves the traditional press access mechanisms entirely and creates a new one with only outlets he is friends with (or outright controls…)
And he just announced it.
This is exactly what I thought might happen next.
Didn’t he already do that with the Pentagon press access by banning all legitimate and semi-legitimate news orgs and only allowing his fringe propaganda media that signed pledges to only say nice things about him?
And then he’ll complain that he isn’t on TV more.
I think that’s the only saving grace. He wants so badly to be seen that them pulling coverage gives the media more leverage than he was thinking.
Instead, I see him trying to threaten them via the FCC stating that they’ll pull their licenses unless they give the government (read: him) air time.