Told you so: Sean Hannity Urges Trump Administration To Get Rid Of The White House Press Office

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SEAN HANNITY: You would think this is the biggest, I guess, presidential faux pas watching the news media this weekend because he took a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan. Dick Cheney actually made a statement, he said, you know, "Trump could now transcend the media at this point," he doesn't need these guys anymore. Is it time to rethink the White House press office? For example, does CNN really deserve a seat after being caught colluding with the Clinton campaign? Does NBC deserve a seat in the White House press office and dealing with the press secretary when we know they have an institutional bias, or is it time to just throw them all out and start over?
http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/12/05/sean-hannity-urges-trump-administration-get-rid-white-house-press-office/214724



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1. interesting. given the media has reduced itself to mere gossip-mongers,

they have turned themselves little more than a glorified twitter feed.
they're just gossip-mongers anyway, as they've decimated their own investigative staff.

in trying to compete with the internet, they've made themselves a bit redundant in a way.

one can hope if donnie shuts them out, that might force them to return to actual investigative journalism...


... nah. that'll never happen

[Kilgore]

2. We can only hope

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Huh? Anyone here actually read a newspaper or magazine in the past year? It's not entirely...

the press's fault misinformation gets out when nobody reads the press any more. Everything's been laid out in the Times, WaPo, Atlantic, New Yorker, and probably a few others that I don't regularly read. (I should re-subscribe to the Economist.)

But if it's not on HuffPo or in an Alternet email it doesn't exist?

[bettyellen]

7. They hope no one does.... which is why they're mostly talking about cable news....

Pretending they have been hard on him this year.

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8. i wasn't thinking specifically of print media. yes, of course a lot of this is out there.

i mean, how else do we find out about it here on du?

but it's not enough for some of these to be a one or few day story in print media and perhaps a bare mention on tv.

i agree it's not entirely the fault of print media that when they do have a juicy investigative story, it doesn't go viral on the internet, though i do blame the media as a whole.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. He doesn't need them anymore?

I wasn't aware that the press served at the pleasure of the president.

Go back to your bunker, Cheney!

[kacekwl]

5. Oh but they do

Especially this , gulp president.

[Cosmocat]

4. YEP

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