oh ****, this thread is moving to fast for me to keep up while trying to cook. lol
oh ****, this thread is moving to fast for me to keep up while trying to cook. lol
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
As for turning the other cheek. In large part, I agree. I think some people have allowed themselves to be baited (Acosta did that before, IIRC). They're NEVER going to win that one, and they'll probably diminish themselves and their credibility in the process. It's not smart.
On the other hand, it's either extremely cynical or extremely dense to lay this all in the media and not consider the context.
And guys like Acosta are granted license to act like uncouth twats in the briefing room ... because the climate is ripe?
It just makes me cringe to see members of the press shout down the press secretary in the briefing room. I don't care what's going on in the greater political sphere outside of the room, the briefing room/process is a forum which should remain sacrosanct - otherwise you are essentially gifting an anti-press administration permission to go even more Orwell on everyone's ass.
That's what I'm talking about when I refer to a "hostile" press. Not hard questions. Not unified fronts. Just basic disrespect - which shouldn't inherently spawn as a natural byproduct of the combative assholery exhibited by the Commander in Chief.
Seriously, you're playing some kind of "sanctity of the briefing room" card? In an environment where the now-President incorporated a two-minutes hate directed at the media into his campaign appearances...naming people who were present. Shatter every norm then whine when others don't adhere to them?
Like a colonial army should march to the field in formation and expect the rules to be Etonian when fighting a guerilla insurgency?
If the mistakes that the press are making is truly ino cent then why is it only in one direction?
Somehow its more outrageous to reveal truth as opposed to telling lies.
I get it. And I repeat that I think it's bad for the media and the public when media members get baited into playing that game. The lack of decorum also ruffles my feathers, just in a personal sense.
I still think it's odd for you to be planting a flag here, though. You've generally applauded Trump for his norm-breaking. And I would've guessed that you'd see the traditional WH/WH press relationship as a cozy and conventional swamp to be drained rather than an admirable, even sacrosanct, institution.
I think the press room should be polite and respectful towards whoever's at the podium. I also think that relationship is always going to founder in this environment...you can't decouple the subordinate from the boss.* It may happen to a greater or lesser degree depending on personalities, but it's bound to happen.
*in a situation this extreme, I mean
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"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
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A tax bill designed by guys who'd have you max out your credit card to buy a ****ty real estate course.
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