# Trump bans CNN and NYT from press briefing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 24, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673 "2017-02-24T22:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/21 "2017-02-24T23:21:25Z")
I am picturing a day about 4 years from now when Trump wants to hold a press conference to announce he is taking over day to day control of his businesses again and nobody shows up. After all, isn’t this the same media that made Trump a household name? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/22 "2017-02-24T23:23:30Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > What I don’t understand is why all reputable news organizations are not boycotting these press briefings until this ban is rescinded. You have a great point. The only problem is that what’s left would be “Cheeto-Pravda”. Q: Can the major news organizations report on the happenings while totally and completely shutting down 45? Can the networks cut off all broadcasts of all speeches and only report recaps of text scrolled across the screen? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/23 "2017-02-24T23:23:47Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Bad. Very, very bad. > > Any chance the other news outlets will boycott in solidarity? I sure hope so. Are you kidding? If massive numbers of journalists were jailed by the Trump lads, and only Fox News was allowed to report on TV, with Brietbart allowed to publish on the web, they would LOVE IT. They would revel in being the official mouthpiece for a totalitarian dictatorship, and would report exactly what Trump told them to. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/24 "2017-02-24T23:24:59Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yes, it’s a major news story being reported by multiple, independent sources all over the world. > > If only there was some way to convince Republicans that it actually happened. FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! Anything bad about Dear Leader is FAKE NEWS. The US is really just a stone’s throw away from being a wealthier, nuclear armed North Korea. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/25 "2017-02-24T23:28:41Z")
Jonathan and I discussed and think Elections can be an appropriate home. Let’s try again. Moved back from Pit to Elections. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/26 "2017-02-24T23:30:53Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! Anything bad about Dear Leader is FAKE NEWS. > > The US is really just a stone’s throw away from being a wealthier, nuclear armed North Korea. Yep. Trump is beginning to look like President Nehemiah Scudder. Good Lord, how I wish I were kidding! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/27 "2017-02-24T23:34:15Z")
That explains why the BBC were so nasty about him earlier this evening. ---
**Author:** ![IlikePlants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@IlikePlants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IlikePlants)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/28 "2017-02-24T23:34:23Z")
1. Administration tells the press they wanted to move the briefing room to another location that would accommodate more journalists and other media forms 2. Press screams about being moved, makes all kinds of noise 3. Administration relents and allows them to stay in the smaller venue 4. Press freaks the fuck out when not everybody gets a seat The press got played big time. They bought the whole briefing room business hook, line, and sinker and are now dealing with the repercussions of their own protests… glorious. [Obama did worse!](http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487968622562.png) [here is more proof](http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487968919584m.jpg) Oh well, CNN is #fake news anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/29 "2017-02-24T23:53:31Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Yep. Trump is beginning to look like President Nehemiah Scudder. Good Lord, how I wish I were kidding! Nah, I think Trump is more like Saparmurat Niyazov. I wonder what [our new month and day names will be](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaming_of_Turkmen_months_and_days_of_week,_2002)? (I’m thinking something like Montrump, Tuestrump, Wednestrump and Septemtrump, Octobtrump, Novemtrump. Nobody renames days better than him!) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/30 "2017-02-25T00:03:41Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Bad. Very, very bad. > > Any chance the other news outlets will boycott in solidarity? I sure hope so. Reporters from NYT, BuzzFeed, CNN, the Los Angeles Times and Politico were excluded. Conservative outlets Breitbart News, One America News Network and the Washington Times were included. Time magazine and the AP boycotted in solidarity. “Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties,” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, said in a statement. “We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.” **FLASHBACK** to December when Sean Spicer said the Trump White House couldn’t “ban” outlets from covering the government: “That’s what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship.” ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/31 "2017-02-25T00:26:34Z")
> [@IlikePlants](#): > > 1. Administration tells the press they wanted to move the briefing room to another location that would accommodate more journalists and other media forms > 2. Press screams about being moved, makes all kinds of noise > 3. Administration relents and allows them to stay in the smaller venue > 4. Press freaks the fuck out when not everybody gets a seat > > The press got played big time. They bought the whole briefing room business hook, line, and sinker and are now dealing with the repercussions of their own protests… glorious. > > [Obama did worse!](http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487968622562.png) > > [here is more proof](http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487968919584m.jpg) > > Oh well, CNN is #fake news anyway. Links lead nowhere. When come back, bring sources. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/32 "2017-02-25T00:42:32Z")
> [@IlikePlants](#): > > 1. Administration tells the press they wanted to move the briefing room to another location that would accommodate more journalists and other media forms > 2. Press screams about being moved, makes all kinds of noise > 3. Administration relents and allows them to stay in the smaller venue > 4. Press freaks the fuck out when not everybody gets a seat > > The press got played big time. They bought the whole briefing room business hook, line, and sinker and are now dealing with the repercussions of their own protests… glorious. > > [Obama did worse!](http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487968622562.png) > > [here is more proof](http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487968919584m.jpg) > > Oh well, CNN is #fake news anyway. Image posted on 4chan as a cite… ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/33 "2017-02-25T00:43:37Z")
Is it too soon to ask if 45 will be invited to the annual White House press corps dinner? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/34 "2017-02-25T00:45:30Z")
From another thread: > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1562): > > At the CPAC meeting, Trump referred to CNN as the “Clinton News Network.” ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/35 "2017-02-25T00:53:07Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > If the asshole Trump bastard fucks think that this is a good way to keep the press from digging, looking, and publishing, then they are stupider than even I had believed. What utter dumb fucks! No, he knows they’ll report on it. But now this story swamps the potentially more damaging news about [conversations between Priebus and the FBI](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/donald-trump-russia-reince-priebus-fbi-talks-james-comey) that would violate department rules. It’s not stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/36 "2017-02-25T00:58:34Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > That explains why the BBC were so nasty about him earlier this evening. They dared to report libelous facts that portrayed Trump in a derogatory, yet completely accurate way? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/37 "2017-02-25T01:08:44Z")
> [@emcee2k](#): > > Image posted on 4chan as a cite… It’s a reference [to this story](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/07/16/138168227/new-emails-shed-light-on-2009-fox-white-house-spat) (Link to NPR.) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/38 "2017-02-25T01:18:25Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Nah, I think Trump is more like Saparmurat Niyazov. I wonder what [our new month and day names will be](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaming_of_Turkmen_months_and_days_of_week,_2002)? > > (I’m thinking something like Montrump, Tuestrump, Wednestrump and Septemtrump, Octobtrump, Novemtrump. Nobody renames days better than him!) Hah! When I was a kid, we lived in Dale City, Virginia. It seemed every street there had “dale” in its name. We kids even made a word game out of it, similar to “McDonald’s-speak”: > [@](#): > > Let’s bike oh-dale-ver-dale to the su-dale-per-dale-mar-dale-ket-dale on Glenn Street-dale". (The street’s actual name in this example would be Glenndale Street; the word game rules required moving “dale” if it was already present in the real word. That’s what Trump thinks both language and being president are: games. He’s losing at both, though. Sadly, he’s doing irreparable harm on his way out of the playhouse, er, White House. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/39 "2017-02-25T01:24:33Z")
Can someone clue me in on this “45” business, please. (Not sure I want that on my search history) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/40 "2017-02-25T01:25:34Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > Can someone clue me in on this “45” business, please. (Not sure I want that on my search history) Forty-fifth President. Done to avoid using Cheeto’s real name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673.md?page=3)