"As a former WH reporter, I don't say this lightly"

[Nevilledog]

[CatWoman]

1. K; R

[Hekate]

2. KnR

[Cha]

50. I don't know if you Tweet, Hekate, but if you do.. you can Retweet this..

Link to tweet

Excellent advice!

[Hekate]

52. Hi Cha! No, I only see tweets here.

Hope all is well.

[Cha]

53. Yes, that Hurricane Douglas Missed us & all the Island

chain.. Thank Goodness! We all went through the Preps 'cause we just didn't know. Whew!

I hope you & yours are doing well as can be in this heartbreaking time.

Oh, I got to vote for Kai Kahele in person on Thursday.. quite by chance bc I had accidently tossed my Envelope that I got with my Mail in Ballot. So I went about trying to get another ballot.

Turns out we have a Kauai Voters Service Center & you can Vote in Person. The keeper of the Direct Voting Drop Box takes your Temperature & then directs you to Conference Room B. It was almost like private voting. Just one machine, Paper Ballot.. & room enough for 3 or 4 Voters.

After anyone votes the Poll Workers clap and Cheer with Hooyays! Like a Party! When they clapped for me I Clapped, too, and said "Thank you all for being here!"

[dchill]

3. Very astute.

[mrsadm]

31. Absolutely!

[Grammy23]

4. No law says the media has to show up to hear his lies every day.

What if he threw a press event and no one came? I would pay to see that.

[Nevilledog]

6. I'd argue that by covering his lies they are working against public health interests.

[Captain Zero]

14. Ok. but the press would need to send one person

To take pictures and video. Sit in the back. Don't ask questions.

[Lasher]

34. Somebody to listen to his bullshit so I don't have to.

That's why I don't watch Trump on TV. Chris Cuomo will let me now if he said anything I care about.

[tblue37]

20. The law of "Wanna get fired?" nt

[csziggy]

39. A lot of government events are pool coverage

One camera set up and any or all networks can access and cover as needed. The networks could just assign some interns to monitor the White House Follies and alert the higher ups when something interesting happens. Or - radical thought - there could be more than one - one to watch, others to check the truthfulness of what is said. That's probably need a half dozen or more interns!

I would LOVE to have Dolt45 come out for a WH Briefing and all there is in the room is one camera and his swarm of toadies.

[NewJeffCT]

55. Fox will still show up - so will Breitbart, OAN and other RWers

and they'll keep broadcasting

[calimary]

65. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see that.

What constantly irks me is what now shapes up as complete baloney and journalistic malpractice - STILL reacting and responding to trump with what always looks like wide-eyed naivety. Like - well, maybe he's telling the truth today.

FUCK THAT! Do we not have an almost-four-year-long and VERY well-documented track record of CONSTANT lies and bullshit and distractions and grievance whining and more lies and more distortions and more bullshit? This guy DOES NOT tell the truth, HAS NOT told the truth, WILL NOT tell the truth, and CANNOT tell the truth. NOT EVER!

And we can go back even farther than just this four-year timeframe. THROUGHOUT his life in the public eye, he has lied, misled, bullshitted, tap-danced, distracted, distorted, slung a lotta hash, and blamed everything/everybody/anything/anybody else outside of his own little self.

Everyone in the media seems to forget this. Everyone in the media seems to want to start with a daily reset - where everything is covered and judged from a zero-base, disregarding everything we know and see and have observed FOR YEARS with this bastard.

And I just wish they'd stop!

Everything about him, everything he says, everything he does, MUST BE viewed in the context of his long-established track record as a certified liar and cheat. And it should be covered that way.

He has LONG AGO squandered ANY benefit of the doubt that seems to wash over him every day. He NO LONGER deserves such treatment.

Everything about him should be covered through the lens, and on the premise, of TOTAL doubt. In context with his long-established and EXTREMELY well-documented track-record as a liar and a cheat. NOTHING with him should be taken at face value.

Maybe it's some over-arching attempt to try to remain objective. But by now, the only objective attitude or interpretation we have, the only one that's relative and operative, is to fully understand and accept that he is a liar and a cheat, and EVERYTHING from him and about him should be treated, and covered, from that fundamental. From that baseline. From now on.

[crickets]

67. This is a great point:

Everyone in the media seems to want to start with a daily reset - where everything is covered and judged from a zero-base, disregarding everything we know and see and have observed FOR YEARS with this bastard.

It drives me nuts too. Why pretend trump is anything other than the lying scum he has repeatedly shown he is?

[Mr. Evil]

74. You just delivered a royal flush of a post.

I'm guessing they're still doing the same thing over and over in the hopes of finally receiving a different result. Well, we all know what that actually is. The definition of insanity. It's almost as if the news producers at every news organization is giddy with glee that President Nazivomit is going to be saying something so they can capture the clown show and reap the ratings. This is disgusting on so many levels anyone would have to hijack this thread and most others to list them all. And to actually show him reading aloud is quite possibly one of the most mentally painful experiences anyone watching has to endure.

Anyone involved with any presentation of this know-nothing doofus should always preface that event with a disclaimer that the viewing audience is about to hear lies, pettiness, unwarranted and unfounded insults, misinformation, blatant ignorance (regardless of the subject), bias, bigotry, racism, fearmongering, self-agrandizement, inhumanity and the blaming of anyone and/or anything other than himself for everything he and his administration is responsible for.

Just stop showing him altogether! He has nothing of substance to offer anyone or our society, nor will he ever do so. He is simply a fraud in every sense of the term. Everyone involved in TV news presentations should just forsake TV viewing diplomacy and call him what he is at every opportunity... A god damned fraud!

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. I've said that for a long time, but he has more gravitas

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. should have done this from the very start.

[SheltieLover]

8. Yup

Chump's worst nightmare is to be ignored.

[ZZenith]

9. "Of course, I was happy to enable a previous Republican administration

when they were lying us into a disastrous and ill-conceived war in the Middle East.”

Ron Fournier: Go ahead, admit it — George W. Bush is a good man

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2013/04/27/ron-fournier-go-ahead-admit-it-george-w-bush-is-a-good-man/

[whttevrr]

10. Why not post original link?

Why do people create screen grabs of tweets and not provide a link to the original source material?

Shouldn't there be source links?

[Tommymac]

21. Here You go - from April 6 2020

Link to tweet

[whttevrr]

22. Thank you I appreciate your effort

[BlancheSplanchnik]

54. Thanks! I'd like to know how you did that.

I just can’t figure out how to share tweets!

[Tommymac]

75. It's very easy.

On Twitter, just click on the little 'house' icon in the ribbon below the body of the tweet and click on "Copy Link To Tweet".

Then simply paste that url link here on DU in the 'Message text' field in the 'Reply To' window.

Example: https:<edited>//twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1290027764167266305?s=20

Remove all characters from the '?' to the end (the ones in bold type in the above example). Or not...if you are not comfortable doing this step no worries it's cosmetic only, won't hurt anything.

That's it.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

76. *mwah* thanks!!! I'll try this!

[sheshe2]

11. KnR

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Thank you! Been saying this for years. Even wrote

The Press Corp's org several times.f

Trump turns mics off - saw it - no follow up.

Trump masterminded the hideous "copter conferences". Where no one can hear the question asked which allows him to freely riff.

[unblock]

13. Easily 3 years late, but I'll take it

Responsible journalism doesn't pay attention to sources that repeatedly lie. Given he is president, pool reporters should always follow him, but not live. Anything he says should be confirmed first.

And coverage of bigotry should be handled very differently. Do *not* lead with the quote, no matter how outrageous. That gives way too much airtime to furthering his agenda. Lead with the fact that he said something bigoted. The story is the bigotry. The actual quote should be in paragraph three and the earliest.

[H2O Man]

16. Recommended.

[crickets]

42. +1

[Illumination]

15. Yes! Agree! Who can even stand listening to little D these days? Just ramblings mainly...

[CaptYossarian]

17. And don't say his name.

Reduce him to an unimportant pronoun. HE is a narcissist. More important than he should be.

[Nevilledog]

18. Or adopt DUer soothsayer's appellation for him..."it"

[Cha]

51. lol.. right. We all know who he's talking about

[pwb]

19. The Media gets money from everybody.

Me paying subscriptions, business pays them for advertising, politicians of all types pay them for messages. It is what is wrong, too few getting too much.

[zentrum]

23. Yes. Props. Part of the Death Follies.

[OhNo-Really]

24. Don't feed them!

I stopped using TV last week

When their ratings tank maybe......

Nah. They’re corporations. Enjoying the tax breaks. Shameful

[3catwoman3]

25. They should have ignored him from the moment...

...he started down the escalator, but no-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o - they had to report every damn breath he drew.

[Rice4VP]

41. It's sickening. And then they spend all day replaying what he said instead of just summarizing

[homegirl]

26. The very first time Trump refererred to the media

as lying hacks. and "fake news" they should have risen as one and left the room, never to return.

All news from the White House should be displayed as text on the TV screen, no comment needed and absolutely no images of Trump.

So much more is happening politically in this country and is not being covered.

The media outlets should..

DUMP TRUMP!!!

[Grasswire2]

37. No. Just no. nt

[cp]

27. K&R to infinity!

[marble falls]

28. 75% should stop and the remaining 25% need to put heat in thier questions. No more softballs.

[uponit7771]

56. +1, why aren't other G8 countries citizens dying at 1500 a day from CV?

[marble falls]

62. Great hardball question.

[FakeNoose]

29. Also, stop reporting his tweets like it's news

Just stop.

[Cha]

48. AbsoFreakingLutely!

Link to tweet

[Lucinda]

30. ...

I'd rather they keep covering the chaos of this administration and added the rest into the mix. It's good to keep an eye on the lies in real time...

[hay rick]

32. Unfortunately, treating "presidential briefings" as news is a new kind of complicity.

[Skittles]

33. CORRECT

they won't do that, though, they enjoy the shit show that is Donald Fucking Trump

[spanone]

35. K&R

[Grasswire2]

36. Ron Fournier was the AP reporter, always the first to be called on.

I had my beefs with him and his own representation of the media over the years. He was not faultless.

The first thing that should happen is for Congress to pass a resolution restoring the credentialing authority for reporters back to the Correpondents' Association where it was originally. Ceding that authority to the press office was a disastrous mistake. Reporters covering Congress have their access codified in the Senate Rules.

Reporters covering the WH have no such protection, despite their critical role in the peoples' right to question their president.

[benld74]

38. I said as much to a WH press in Twitterverse

And was informed
If not for them
We would know nothing going on at WH

Tried to argue
But it was in vain

[Rice4VP]

40. I've been saying this for 3 years

Why do these reporters keep showing up only to be insulted or ignored? CNN and MSNBC also need to stop showing their “briefings” live. It’s a total waste of time

[kentuck]

43. He says he doesn't want any press or media at the Republican Convention?

After it was over, it would be funny to see who they send out to tell us what happened in Jacksonville or Charlotte, or wherever it may wind up?

[BigmanPigman]

44. Nah, too much money for the MSM

and the ratings/$$$ is what they live for. They proved this in 2016 and are still going strong with the "tRump shit-show".

[elleng]

45. YES!

[Rhiannon12866]

46. K&R! Pointless for them, painful to watch, Trump only uses them and ignores their questions

[Cha]

47. No, I'm sure Fournier doesn't say it lightly.. I remember him

as a kind of a tool back in the bush2 days.

So as we know .. this is bad killing off American citizens on American soil.

Good Advice NOW!

Link to tweet

[Cha]

49. Retweeted!!!!!

Link to tweet

[lagomorph777]

57. Absolutely. At this point, putting the Turd on TV is enabling it.

Enough is enough.

Anyway, I change the channel any time it appears on my TV.

[mia]

58. K & R

[TheCowsCameHome]

59. Spot on.

[Paladin]

60. Now THAT'S some good advice.

trump will shrivel up without regular, wide-spread media coverage. Walk away from him, MSM.

[Mr. Ected]

61. There's enough press to cover BOTH

If you abandon the WH briefing room, it will be solely populated by the RW propaganda outlets, and that's playing directly into his hands. Better to leave some stalwart reporters there to even the playing field AND ask the difficult questions that he will sidestep. ALSO send reporters to doctors, governors, etc. We need to see both sides of the coin so the media can show the American people that Trump's side of the coin is written in Cyrillic.

[usaf-vet]

63. FINALLY a reporter says what millions of Americans have been saying for months if not years.

STOP GIVING HIM COVERAGE!

WE STOPPED TELEVISING EXECUTIONS BECAUSE THEY WERE GRUESOME.

Stop giving him news coverage for the same reason.

[Maribelle]

64. A lot of people think Fournier is a republican hack ..

dull, unimaginative, and trite. If I were a member of MSM, I wouldn't listen to any of his journalistic advice.

[northoftheborder]

66. K&R

[AC_Mem]

68. YES!!!

Why do reporters think that they need to continue to give him an audience? Interview everyone around him who acts like they have some sense and stop giving an audience to insanity.

Not only is the continued coverage just enabling the bad behavior, it is helping to spread false information that is literally killing people. In addition - it also contributes to people's insatiable need for instant drama - and 45 well knows it. We MUST get back to some semblance of normal; we have become so used to this 24/7 craziness that it has almost become our normal. What happens when we get someone who is not going to feed the need for constant drama come January? It's time to get everyone, or as many as we can, to start to focus on a future that is hopeful, healthy, happy, productive. Where we are not pitied and can rebuild relationships that have been destroyed over a bully's need for power and dominance. Once President Biden announces his VP, our energy should shift to supporting this campaign 100%.

We need to start thinking about not only undoing the damage of 4 years of corruption, but looking at what we can do, as individuals, to help heal our battered and bruised nation. She has been in a four year abusive relationship, but she is going to get out of it and with the help of our love, America the Beautiful will proudly shine again.

Annette

[certainot]

69. good. better yet, turn that attention to rw talk radio and investigate russian use of it, for eg

[ProfessorGAC]

70. Is There An Argument Against This?

I don't see one.
Even the "respect for the office" point doesn't fly, because PINO lacks respect for the office.
Why should anybody else?

[LisaM]

71. Had they but taken this advice in 2015...

Trump's campaign would have floundered if they hadn't propped it up over and over.

[Grins]

72. Screw you, Fournier!

He says this now, but for YEARS he was a “both sides” hack of the first order.

[Sherman A1]

73. I posted comments to this effect

Right after his inauguration. But they follow the bright shiny object and do not serve the needs of the people.