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by Jeff Guo at Vox
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/27/15882094/sarah-huckabee-sanders-brian-karem-press-briefing
"SNIP..............
(Sarah Huckabee Sanders)I think we have gone to a place where if the media cant be trusted to report the news, then thats a dangerous place for America. And I think if thats the place where certain outlets are going, particularly for the purpose of spiking ratings, and if thats coming directly from the top, then I think thats even more scary, and certainly more disgraceful.
Sanders went on to scold the media for using unnamed sources, when a reporter apparently Brian J. Karem, a correspondent for Playboy interrupted her with a sharply worded rebuttal:
Come on, youre inflaming everybody right here, right now, with those words. This administration has done that as well. Why in the name of heaven any one of us are replaceable, and any one of us, if we dont get it right, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us.
You have been elected to serve for four years at least. There is no option other than that. Were here to ask you questions. Youre here to provide the answers. And what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and say, See, once again, the president is right and everybody else out here is fake media. And everybody out here is only trying to do their job.
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imanamerican63
(13,810 posts)Remember, Kellyanne and her alternative facts? Trump's people lying to cover for him? His way of stirring the pot, is what makes the media run wild! They say CNN and MSNBC is fake news? What about Fox, Alex Jones, Rush, Anne Coulter and so many others?!?!
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)It's the news they want you to hear.
Plus Fox etc is competing for an American audience. CNN, and to a lesser degree NBC, is competing for an International audience too. The rest of the world has standards that Fox etc just don't have to properly follow.
Lithos
(26,403 posts)Fox is not news, it's a scripted narrative. Their actors have admitted as such.
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rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)If this was a movie, I'd find the plot implausible.
My only refuge is knowing that Robert Mueller will apply legal proof to his determinations, and not solely public pronouncements. The superkinetic spin that the right is tossing right now is tearing our nation in two.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)blather. One by one they need to stand up and say, "This is smoke and mirrors and the American people are on to you." Then they need to be no-shows for this clown-car administration's idea of informing the people.