If they did, there is a good chance their entire network would be blacklisted from the White House and it’s staff entirely. I have to believe there are at least a few good journalists in the bunch who are suffering through for the sake of doing journalism.

Journalism is no longer about investigation and bringing truth to power, but about access. Most journalists across the spectrum just repeat state department talking points verbatim. There’s some outliers like Chris Hedges and Vincent Bevins, but they’re extremely rare, and generally not employed by the big name outlets like AP news and such. In journalism, if you exhibit even a semblance of a backbone, you lose access, and hence your job. So, it’ll be “regime” this, “Hamas-run hospital” that, “BuT at WhAt CoSt” and so on.

I’ve wondered the same thing, many times.

A reminder that the McCarthy hearings finally ended when one witness, tired of being harassed, finally hollered back, in front of Congress: “HAVE YOU NO DECENCY, SIR?” and the judgemental Christian values of mid-50s America were suddenly shocked to their core. They suddenly realized that this sort of smarmy behavior is beneath the dignity of America.

I’ve been waiting for that moment, when someone finally puts him in his place in front of the world, giving him a royal telling off, and a journalist is the perfect person to do it effectively.

They’ll probably lose their job, and surely be banned from the White House, but they’ll get a better job out of it, and the support of the American people.

There are an army of sycophants getting paid to make sure he doesn’t talk to any actual journalists

John Swinton allegedly said the following in 1883:

There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an “Independent Press”! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swinton_(journalist)

Are real journalists even allowed near him?

Even if they don’t speak out, I do from my device’s display on their behalf when I hear him talk like that to/about a reporter asking questions.

I want someone to snap, call him a piece of shit kiddie fucker, then if he gets indignant that ‘how dare you’, call him a thin-skinned baby who can dish it out but can’t take it. Make him so mad, on camera, that he strokes out live on air. I’d personally send that reporter money until the day I die, like how the original owner of Little Caesars paid for Rosa Parks apartment until she passed.

Fuck him! He would never talk to someone like that around me without having me escorted out as I verbally eviscerated him. He’s disrespect incarnate, and I was raised not to let someone talk to me, or anyone around me, like that!

On the other hand, reporters of integrity have been difficult to find ever since they started being able to spew their opinions as entertainment reporting, rather than actual news reports.

Just one “get fucked, cunt!" would go a long way.

I think there’s a journalism principle that’s something like “don’t be the story”

Everybody knows that everybody feels that way. The unspoken words are louder than whatever garbage this abomination spills from its face hole.

Take heart, MC Donald’s has too many calories.

A real easy to show who truly works for who is for the ‘Boss’ to flex whatever muscle they think they have to the subservient party.

I would love to see a reporter or interviewer reply to a deflection with “that’s not what I asked you, now answer the fucking question.”

Americans have an obsession with decorum. They forgot the adage “speak softly, but carry a big stick.”

Real journalists aren’t allowed to interview the President. They’re doing real work, resulting in Panama and Pandora papers, for example. Proof of the entire world’s international web of wealthy monsters, all ignored for the most part.