Wherever dinosaur legacy media dredges up the degenerate Swamp monsters who “cover” (loosely defined) the goings-on at the White House, it’s nowhere good.
(Actually, we know from where they are sourced: the pampered ranks of the Ivy League, who, on account of their membership in the ruling class, can be counted on to promote those interests in their reporting by, among other things, never asking truly hard questions of favored Democrat presidents.)
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At any rate, due to their hackery and their rapidly diminishing influence in terms of narrative-making, the Trump team is mulling opening up the ranks of the White House Press Corps to independent and actually popular media.
When [the legacy media] sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
—Donald Trump on corporate state media
On the rare occasion over the past four years that one of the hacks has plucked up the courage to do their job by asking a real question, they have been immediately scolded by DEI labradoodle Jean-Pierre as well as, in a bitter irony, by other fellow members of the press corps. On many occasions, real questions posed have resulted in KJP, who doesn’t have the answer pre-written for her in her notebook, becoming visibly disoriented and abruptly exiting stage left. Oftentimes, as I have reported, offenders like heroic African journalist Simon Ateba subsequently have their press passes revoked.
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The traditional legacy media that has historically choked out any truly independently-minded outlets from the North Korean-style pre-approved press pool is totally freaking out about the proposed changes.
Via The Hill (emphasis added):
Signals from President-elect Trump’s team that a shake-up of the White House press briefing room could be coming are roiling journalists preparing to cover his second term.
People close to Trump have said in recent days he should dramatically change who gets access to the president, suggesting podcasters, internet personalities and media deemed more friendly to him could replace outlets like the major television networks, The New York Times and The Washington Post in the room’s front rows.
Reporters covering The White House, in conversations with The Hill this week, described a feeling of annoyance, frustration and dread at such an idea.
While paying lip service to the vaunted Fourth Estate and its central importance to Democracy™, the press pool in its current form under the Brandon regime is a hierarchy in which the outlets with the most resources, the best connections, and the friendliest coverage of the interests that run the country (into the ground) get priority seating while any other stragglers, if they’re allowed in the room at all, get the Rosa Parks treatment.
Continuing:
“It would be a total mess,” one White House reporter told The Hill this week. “I would expect people would probably boycott the briefings, though that would put certain outlets in a tough spot deciding if they want to go along with what the Trump people are trying to pull.”
Traditionally, the first row of the James Brady Briefing Room has been occupied by the four major networks of NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox; The Associated Press; CNN; and Reuters.
Other larger outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, CBS News Radio, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Bloomberg have seats in the second row, while some news organizations do not have formal seats in the room.
Alas, the days of “corporate state media privilege” may be drawing to an end in the White House briefing room.
Sad!
