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White House bars AP, Reuters and other media from covering Trump cabinet meeting

Y2kTheNewOldies

Y2kTheNewOldies


This has been expected for some time here. Associated Press was banned from the White House because of the "Gulf of Mexico" issue. In Reuters case it's tied to extensive investigative stories they reported about Elon Musk at all of his companies prior to going to the White House.

The White House on Wednesday denied reporters from Reuters and other news organizations access to President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting in keeping with the administration’s new policy regarding media coverage.
The White House denied access to an Associated Press photographer and three reporters from Reuters, HuffPost and Der Tagesspiegel, a German newspaper.
TV crews from ABC and Newsmax, along with correspondents from Axios, the Blaze, Bloomberg News and NPR were permitted to cover the event.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced the White House would determine which media outlets would cover the president in smaller spaces such as the Oval Office.
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www.rollingstone.com

Trump Trashes Totally Normal Spending ... That His Administration Authorized

Donald Trump trashed a government contract with Reuters that his own administration authorized, describing the outlet as "radical left."
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Trump demands ‘Radical Left Reuters’ return a $9 million government contract. He’s the one who paid it out in the first place

After Elon Musk first pushed a misleading claim about Reuters, the president raged about the global news agency returning a contract that was awarded under his first administration
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Interestingly Trump accuses Reuters of being "Radical Left" while discussing about the contract Thompson Reuters had with the DOD over databases that was approved by congress during the first time Trump was President. Note Thompson Reuters is a different division from Reuters News agency.
 

Statement from AP, Bloomberg News, Reuters on White House press pool access | The Associated Press

The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and Reuters on Wednesday issued this joint statement: The three permanent wires in the White House pool, The
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Here is a joint statement AP, Reuters and Bloomberg have on the White House access.

The three permanent wires in the White House pool, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and Reuters, have long worked to ensure that accurate, fair and timely information about the presidency is communicated to a broad audience of all political persuasions, both in the United States and globally. Much of the White House coverage people see in their local news outlets, wherever they are in the world, comes from the wires.
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Here's the current status on the AP Lawsuit against the White House.
 
www.huffpost.com

White House Kicks Out HuffPost Reporter From Press Pool

Breaking with decades of precedent, the Trump White House is insisting on the ability to choose which reporters cover the president.
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Huffpost reporter is now removed from the White House Press Corp. HuffPost joins AP and Reuters for being banned from the White House. Let's hope all these outlets join in the AP Lawsuit against the Trump Administration for 1st Amendment reasons.
 
So now that the white house has kicked out people it doesn't like, David Marcus says the daily briefing is more friendly:

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DAVID MARCUS: Independent media balances out the hate at WH briefings

Columnist David Marcus notes the atmosphere in the White House briefing room has completely changed, now that independent media has joined and the tenor is not dominated by hostility from the press.
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With the exemption of the recalcitrant Associated Press, which has weirdly decided to die on the hill of defending the name "Gulf of Mexico," all the old Trump haters from The New York Times to NBC News are still in the room; they just don’t completely dominate it anymore.
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Of course they're friendly. That's what the white house wants. Any disagreement is shut down. Under Biden, the press secretary was under fire every day for all kinds of things, including her personal life. That would not have been permitted in this white house. Under Biden, reporters shouted questions at him all the time. Under this president, things are much more sedate, by design. Except when the goal is to attack a foreign leader like Zelenskyy. Then the invited press can ridicule his clothing or provoke a debate about Russia. Things are very different.

That doesn't mean actual reporting doesn't happen. The press briefings are mostly for show. The real reporting takes place off the air. This white house apparently leaks like a paper bag. It seems very easy to get information about closed door meetings that are supposed to be secret. That kind of work makes what happens at the press briefings look like a TV show, which is what it is.
 
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Nothing surprising about this. It's all part of trying to control the narrative and create "Alternative Facts". Here's some truths they don't like ---Canada isn't the 51st state. Russia started the war with Ukraine. The Gulf Of Mexico existed long before the United States did. Those are just a few examples that the current administration doesn't want reported...
 
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Voice of America ending contracts with Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France Presse

With the Trump administration moving quickly to assert its authority, the Voice of America says it has moved to cancel contracts with The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse wire services.
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Here is the big one hitting the VOA and its an extension of how the Associated Press and Reuters were banned from the White House.

The government agency that runs the Voice of America has moved to terminate contracts with The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse, and told its journalists Friday to stop using material from the wire services.

Kari Lake, the former broadcaster turned Republican politician who was selected by President Donald Trump to run VOA, estimated the move would save $53 million.

The new administration has quickly asserted its authority at VOA, which has delivered news from an American perspective to countries across the world. While awaiting official approval to take over, Lake was brought on as special adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA and sister organizations like Radio Free Europe.

She announced via social media on Thursday that she was ending the “expensive and unnecessary contracts” with the wire services.
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Y2kTheNewOldies said:
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Voice of America ending contracts with Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France Presse

With the Trump administration moving quickly to assert its authority, the Voice of America says it has moved to cancel contracts with The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse wire services.
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Here is the big one hitting the VOA and its an extension of how the Associated Press and Reuters were banned from the White House.
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OK, then from where is the VOA going to get news? They've knocked every major wire service (AP, Reuters, AFP). What's left? The Moonie version of UPI? Or Putin's TASS.
 
Jean Luc said:
OK, then from where is the VOA going to get news? They've knocked every major wire service (AP, Reuters, AFP). What's left? The Moonie version of UPI? Or Putin's TASS.
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Kari Lake answered that question. “With a nearly billion-dollar budget, we should be producing news ourselves. And if that’s not possible, the American taxpayer should demand to know why.”

That doesn't mean it'll be factual. But she believes they will still have the resources to do something. I believe they're discussing that this weekend, going through existing staff and see who they can trust. Those people will likely get phone calls very soon.
 
TheBigA said:
Kari Lake answered that question. “With a nearly billion-dollar budget, we should be producing news ourselves. And if that’s not possible, the American taxpayer should demand to know why.”

That doesn't mean it'll be factual. But she believes they will still have the resources to do something. I believe they're discussing that this weekend, going through existing staff and see who they can trust. Those people will likely get phone calls very soon.
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She's a former TelePrompTer reader with a history of making up "news" online. For someone like her to call herself a journalist is like a disk jockey calling himself a musician. The major networks - even Fox - and all the major newspapers subscribe to at least some of the aforementioned services - even the New York Times. If the Times doesn't produce news themselves, how does she think she can? Maybe she believes "news" just magically appears on the TelePrompTer. Her options are: (1) Make up "news." (2) Steal news (routine among minor market broadcasters). (3) Stop doing news. Maybe do commentaries instead and call it "news."

On a related note, I wonder what Donnie plans to do about AFRTS.
 
Jean Luc said:
She's a former TelePrompTer reader with a history of making up "news" online. For someone like her to call herself a journalist is like a disk jockey calling himself a musician.
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That's a great comparison, and I agree. I've been saying in other threads that all she know is local news, and this is very different. I don't think she has any intentions of, as you put it, stealing news from other places. I expect she will simply cover the stories the administration wants presented to the worldwide audience. She will get access that currently only a few people get. That will give them a level of exclusivity.

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On a related note, I wonder what Donnie plans to do about AFRTS.
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I don't think he knows it exists. He and Musk will get around to it when they deal with the Pentagon. I would imagine it's on a short leash.
 
NY Times just posted: VOA news shows being replaced with music. Employees being locked out.

The American Forces Radio and Television Service (we called it "A-Farts") has been a short leash all along - actually a lot of short leashes. By the current administration, by the host countries, by base commanders, by lifers, in general. It has always considered itself a propaganda tool.
 
Jean Luc said:
By the current administration, by the host countries, by base commanders, by lifers, in general. It has always considered itself a propaganda tool.
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I never got that impression at all. In Puerto Rico, there were several radio stations at bases like Ramey, Buchannan and Rosie Roads. All programmed very "American" content that was not of much interest to locals, although they did have some things like American Top 40 that some might have liked when it was no longer on local WBMJ.

Most programming was music shows in blocks that different groups of troops might like, and newscasts about things "stateside".

None covered much, first as low power AMs in the 50 to 100 watt range, and then as very limited FMs.

Going further back in time, I visited the AFRTS in the Canal Zone and it was more of a real "radio station" but still programmed entirely for the soldiers on the Canal Zone bases. While it had a fairly decent signal back when it was an AM, there was nothing in the content that would be of much interest to Panameños except for some good Top 40 shows in that era.

As to being a "propaganda tool" what I mostly hear in my listening was PSAs about keeping the base clean and picking up your trash and even a few about "using protection when going off base". There was nothing even remotely political.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Going further back in time, I visited the AFRTS in the Canal Zone and it was more of a real "radio station" but still programmed entirely for the soldiers on the Canal Zone bases.
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The movie "Good Morning Vietnam" was about an AFN station in Saigon. Adrian Cronauer was based there in 1965. AFN is probably more modern than VOA. The military is usually a better manager of things than other parts of the gov't. It might not be a bad idea for AFN to be transferred to USAGM.
 
DavidEduardo said:
I never got that impression at all. In Puerto Rico, there were several radio stations at bases like Ramey, Buchannan and Rosie Roads. All programmed very "American" content that was not of much interest to locals, although they did have some things like American Top 40 that some might have liked when it was no longer on local WBMJ.

Most programming was music shows in blocks that different groups of troops might like, and newscasts about things "stateside".

None covered much, first as low power AMs in the 50 to 100 watt range, and then as very limited FMs.

Going further back in time, I visited the AFRTS in the Canal Zone and it was more of a real "radio station" but still programmed entirely for the soldiers on the Canal Zone bases. While it had a fairly decent signal back when it was an AM, there was nothing in the content that would be of much interest to Panameños except for some good Top 40 shows in that era.

As to being a "propaganda tool" what I mostly hear in my listening was PSAs about keeping the base clean and picking up your trash and even a few about "using protection when going off base". There was nothing even remotely political.
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We used to be able to hear the shortwave feeds of programming going out to local AFRTS stations on various bases. Paul Harvey, network news, etc and yes PSAs about military stuff, collecting benefits, etc
 
TheBigA said:
The movie "Good Morning Vietnam" was about an AFN station in Saigon. Adrian Cronauer was based there in 1965.
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The original "Good Morning Viet Nam DJ was Kramer Haas.


The movie was modeled after several different morning hosts on AFN.

Kramer went on to work with Bill Tanner at, first in Vicksburg and then at Jackson's WJDX, 13-Q, Y-100 and Power 96 until his death from cancer
 
DavidEduardo said:
The original "Good Morning Viet Nam DJ was Kramer Haas.


The movie was modeled after several different morning hosts on AFN.

Kramer went on to work with Bill Tanner at, first in Vicksburg and then at Jackson's WJDX, 13-Q, Y-100 and Power 96 until his death from cancer
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The real Cronauer said in interviews the only similarity to his experience was the "Good Morning Vietnam" greeting.
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If you look at the credits to the movie, it says "based on Adrian Cronauer." The character Robin Williams plays is named "Adrian Cronauer."
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The real Cronauer said in interviews that the only similarity was his "Good Morning Vietnam" greeting. I remember him saying there was no actual guy in the next room pre-censoring news copy
 
gr8oldies said:
The real Cronauer said in interviews that the only similarity was his "Good Morning Vietnam" greeting. I remember him saying there was no actual guy in the next room pre-censoring news copy
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Cronauer came up with the greeting. He also pitched the idea for the movie. But he didn't write the story, and a lot of it was adlibbed by Williams.
 


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