# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/41 "2017-02-25T01:28:05Z")
> [@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. > [@pulykamell](#): > > 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.) Figures. As noted in the thread linked in my previous post, Obama did not ban Fox News. ---
**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, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/42 "2017-02-25T01:28:34Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Forty-fifth President. :smack: I was thinking it might be neo nazi code. My Occam’s Razor is a little rusty! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/43 "2017-02-25T01:31:51Z")
One more step towards impeachment? Is anyone keeping track of the journey of a thousand steps? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/44 "2017-02-25T01:54:18Z")
The amazing thing is that there’s not one bad fictional President that trump hasn’t been compared to. Stillson, Scudder, Windrip, Comacho, Chauncy Gardner. I keep trying and when I google trump+whoever, someone’s always gotten there first. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/45 "2017-02-25T02:19:20Z")
The trouble is, the press is reporting on this story instead of continuing to report on the FBI-Russian story from earlier. The press is continually getting played by Trump and getting deflected from more important stories and they don’t seem to be learning that he’s all theater. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/46 "2017-02-25T02:38:43Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > The amazing thing is that there’s not one bad fictional President that trump hasn’t been compared to. . . . Lex Luthor? Jordan Lyman (Seven Days in May?) Aaron Burr (it could have happened!) ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/47 "2017-02-25T02:43:14Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > 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… I think you misspelled the word months. > [@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!) If anything the 10th month would be renamed Ivankatober. > [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Is it too soon to ask if 45 will be invited to the annual White House press corps dinner? I think Trump should still be invited; everyone else can no-show at the last moment. Either that or let Rosie O’Donnell and/or Alec Baldwin emcee. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/48 "2017-02-25T02:46:27Z")
> [@computergeek](#): > > The trouble is, the press is reporting on this story instead of continuing to report on the FBI-Russian story from earlier. The press is continually getting played by Trump and getting deflected from more important stories and they don’t seem to be learning that he’s all theater. I doubt that. I haven’t forgotten the FBI thing, nor will 45’s political opponents. And unless things change, he’s not even throwing the Republican attack dogs off the scent. When and if there are hearings, there will be plenty of coverage. It’s not going away. (I like the 45 thing, btw. It gets a little old calling him the Orangutan all the time.) ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/49 "2017-02-25T02:56:14Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > The amazing thing is that there’s not one bad fictional President that trump hasn’t been compared to. Stillson, Scudder, Windrip, Comacho, Chauncy Gardner. I keep trying and when I google trump+whoever, someone’s always gotten there first. I’d compare him to Charles Logan from 24. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/50 "2017-02-25T03:05:15Z")
the trump/Luthor thing has been done many times. Here’s just one take. > **[The Many Ways Donald Trump Is a Real-Life Lex Luthor](https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-many-ways-donald-trump-is-a-real-life-lex-luthor)** > > Be afraid. Be very afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Blinkyandpinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@Blinkyandpinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blinkyandpinky)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/51 "2017-02-25T03:19:02Z")
I think that this is awesome! Screw the liberal, lying, fake news MSM. They are not media, they are basically a propaganda wing of the Democrat party and they have been colluding for a long time. It’s very refreshing to see how much more transparent and how much more honest this administration behaves in contrast to the previous clowns and incompetent corruptocrats. Trump should treat them like the enemy that they are. ---
**Author:** ![Blinkyandpinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@Blinkyandpinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blinkyandpinky)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/52 "2017-02-25T03:20:26Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Bad. Very, very bad. > > Any chance the other news outlets will boycott in solidarity? I sure hope so. Let them boycott. We do not need the MSM. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/53 "2017-02-25T03:21:52Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > It’s very refreshing to see how much more transparent and how much more honest this administration behaves in contrast to the previous clowns and incompetent corruptocrats. _Phhhhhh_ Bwahahahahahahahaha! This is the most corrupt president we’ve had since Nixon, and he’s just getting started! ---
**Author:** ![Blinkyandpinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@Blinkyandpinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blinkyandpinky)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/54 "2017-02-25T03:27:10Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _Phhhhhh_ > > Bwahahahahahahahaha! > > This is the most corrupt president we’ve had since Nixon, and he’s just getting started! **Less Than Transparent: Journalists Fault Obama** _Mr. Earnest highlighted some of the ways the Obama administration has improved transparency in the White House. Yet, over nearly the past eight years, the Society of Professional Journalists and other groups have repeatedly outlined to the administration various ways in which transparency has gotten worse, including:_ [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/opinion/less-than-transparent-journalists-fault-obama.html?\_r=0](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/opinion/less-than-transparent-journalists-fault-obama.html?_r=0) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/55 "2017-02-25T03:28:29Z")
And this negates 45 being the most corrupt president since Nixon… How? ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/56 "2017-02-25T03:41:49Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > [https://www.google.com/amp/www.refinery29.com/amp/2017/02/142579/trump-ban-media-outlets-new-york-times-cnn-press-gaggle](https://www.google.com/amp/www.refinery29.com/amp/2017/02/142579/trump-ban-media-outlets-new-york-times-cnn-press-gaggle) > > Trump keeps outdoing himself with his actions. I don’t see this whole “the press is an enemy of the people” thing ending well. Unfortunately, I think that the mainstream press will continue to get the short end of the streak (yes, I’m becoming more pessimistic as each day goes by). The quote that the mainstream press “doesn’t represent the people” is especially disturbing. It’s not the job of the press to “represent the people” it’s their job to report the truth. It’s obvious why Trump is doing this, what I don’t get is why Trump supporters eat this stuff up. What do you all think? I am trying to understand this too about Trump supporters , maybe they hate to admit they made a huge mistake voting for trump b/c it would mean they voted for someone who has no clue to what the fuck he is doing ! Trump sure isn’t representing me ! The only" enemy of the people " I am seeing is Trump ! ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/57 "2017-02-25T03:44:10Z")
I’m pretty sure Fox was not invited. > **[Calculated Candor Inside Obama’s Off-the-Record Briefings (Published 2016)](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/us/politics/calculated-candor-inside-obamas-off-the-record-briefings.html)** > > President Obama is the first president to publish visitor logs of the journalists who attend off-the-record discussions meant to promote context and candor. "Technically off the record, the president’s extended conversation in the Roosevelt Room that afternoon with 18 prominent columnists was part of a White House tradition aimed at influencing Washington thought leaders without leaving fingerprints — and without fear that an offhand comment from the commander in chief would spark the latest social media firestorm. These presidential briefings are “a way for people to be able to set aside the urgency of supplying the latest quote from the president of the United States and sit back and listen to the broader argument,” said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary. He declined to comment on the participants or the content of the discussions." ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/58 "2017-02-25T03:46:55Z")
Pretty sure Fox wasn’t invited here either: > **[Behind the War Between White House and Fox (Published 2009)](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html)** > > The heated back-and-forth has brought equal delight to Fox’s conservative commentators and liberal Democrats. “Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of mostly liberal columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert of The New York Times, Mr. Obama himself gave vent to sentiments about the network, according to people briefed on the conversation.” ---
**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, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/59 "2017-02-25T03:47:01Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > \*\*I’m pretty sure Fox was not invited. > \*\* > [https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/us/politics/calculated-candor-inside-obamas-off-the-record-briefings.html](https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/us/politics/calculated-candor-inside-obamas-off-the-record-briefings.html) > > "Technically off the record, the president’s extended conversation in the Roosevelt Room that afternoon with 18 prominent columnists was part of a White House tradition aimed at influencing Washington thought leaders without leaving fingerprints — and without fear that an offhand comment from the commander in chief would spark the latest social media firestorm. > > These presidential briefings are “a way for people to be able to set aside the urgency of supplying the latest quote from the president of the United States and sit back and listen to the broader argument,” said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary. He declined to comment on the participants or the content of the discussions." Care to point out where in your link that supports that conclusion? ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673/60 "2017-02-25T03:48:59Z")
Ari Fleisher: [https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/835227969362722816?ref\_src=twsrc^tfw](https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/835227969362722816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) “… and btw, top aides have done small briefings for hand selected reporters forever.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bans-cnn-and-nyt-from-press-briefing/780673.md?page=4)