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Dear Whitehouse Press Corp. Stop playing his game and start calling out the lies. [1]
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Date: 2025-04-01
There's apparently a kerfuffle over the Whitehouse taking over the seating order in the Whitehouse briefing room. Traditionally the WHCA handles seating, prioritizing major newspapers, TV networks, wire services, etc.
I understand that access is the mother's milk of journalism, so while I found their unwillingness heretofore to call a shovel a shovel unsatisfactory, I understood it. The problem is that they are dealing with a fascist, and as these latest developments demonstrate once again, appeasement never works with fascists. They will have no access unless they become full on arms of the fascist regime. There is no middle ground.
Hence, the only principled and economically viable thing to do is boycott the briefing room. I say that because the audience for major news outlets are non-MAGA, and no matter how MAGA they become, they will never be able to pick up enough of MAGA to compensate for the non-MAGA they will lose. It turns out that there are times when the right thing aligns with self-interest.
The only mainstream agency that should be present is C-Span to act as the equivalent as stenographers of proceedings. That leaves serious journalists and media outlets free to bluntly state the Administration is lying when it lies, which is pretty much when his lips are moving. It frees them up to call the Administration's economic policies disastrous, Musk a Nazi, the Orange Bumbler a Russian agent, etc.
What have they got to lose? Access?
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