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World Class Butthurt From The American Media
If it were up to me, I'd drop nuclear bombs on all Ivy League campuses and be done with this pretension. Then again, that's why I'm not running for office.An open letter to Trump from the US press corps Dear Mr. President Elect: In these final days before your inauguration, we thought it might be helpful to clarify how we see the relationship between your administration and the American press corps. It will come as no surprise to you that we see the relationship as strained. Reports over the last few days that your press secretary is considering pulling news media offices out of the White House are the latest in a pattern of behavior that has persisted throughout the campaign: You’ve banned news organizations from covering you. You’ve taken to Twitter to taunt and threaten individual reporters and encouraged your supporters to do the same. You’ve advocated for looser libel laws and threatened numerous lawsuits of your own, none of which has materialized. You’ve avoided the press when you could and flouted the norms of pool reporting and regular press conferences. You’ve ridiculed a reporter who wrote something you didn’t like because he has a disability. All of this, of course, is your choice and, in a way, your right (professional journalists, everyone! - ed). While the Constitution protects the freedom of the press, it doesn’t dictate how the president must honor that; regular press conferences aren’t enshrined in the document. My 'open letter' to the CJR - you self-important cocksuckers have earned every fucking ounce of this, and then some. This is long overdue payback, and you damn well know it - stop insulting our intelligence once again and pretending otherwise. I look forward to your continued demise over the next four to eight years. Rot in hell, assholes. Posted by: Raj 2017-01-18 |
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