While in private he cries, despairing “Why won’t you love me!?”
Can’t say I blame CNN at all. Oh, there’s this.
Perfectly right. Don’t pretend this is normal. This administration observes no norms. So it’s a form of lying and capitulation to show up at their party, since it implies otherwise. I wish the entire press corps would stay away except for the Gateway Pundit and a couple industry newsletters.
OT: on Josh’s latest editor’s blog: Trump Skates. But It’s Not the Press’s Fault.
But I think we should recognize this basic point: news coverage can’t force people to care about something they don’t care about. They can only share, promote and broadcast the information.
Not the presses fault? Really? Is he fucking serious? He suddenly discounts FOXNews’s ability to radically shape what people care about? They just don’t care because of some undefined reasons?
In light of the President’s continued attacks on freedom of the press and CNN…
If the news is true, and by that I mean if they (a) really boycott (b) really in light of his attacks on freedom of the press, will other major news organizations join the boycott in a show of unity against his assaults…
… or will they be like, First they came for CNN, and we did not speak out because we are not CNN?
I’m afraid I’m not optimistic.
Ten’ll getcha twenty he doesn’t think of Fox as a legitimate outlet. They’re a propaganda arm of the GOP.
“CNN will not be attending this year’s White House Christmas party.”
Topping the guest list, however, is TASS, Pravda, and Izvestia.
(I understand RT will broadcast it live.)
News outlets continuously and eternally tell people what to care about, what’s important, and what’s not. He really lost me with that line.
I predict that trump will mock CNN not being there by setting a empty table with a CNN placard…It would be great if other outlets followed suit and Fox remained the only network there…
Would you agree at least that Josh’s assertion there is literally true—they can’t force anyone, can’t compel them, to think a certain way about something? What about Access Hollywood? What percentage of the country was aware of that? High 90s, maybe? And yet they shrugged, what about Bill, blah blah. They didn’t care. Or not enough. Then 16 women accused him of doing exactly what he’d bragged about. Still the population didn’t care. Made him President.
Josh also asserted that Trump had the right to install Mulvaney at the CFPB so he could destroy toe Bureau—despite the fact that the Dodd-Frank law specifically exempts the Bureau from the Federal Vacancies Act.
So I’m not sure he’s on the right track here, either.
When truth is stranger than fiction, jokes must run quickly if they hope to exaggerate reality.
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An allegedly mistaken interpretation of a point of law means the media can force you to believe certain things and not others? This is a novel theory. 
Over the last 35 years go so, right wing radio and then FOXNews has done that exact thing though. A news media gun wasn’t put to their heads to make them believe, but the end result was the same. In a sense, I can see where Josh was coming from, but it seemed–perhaps it was just the wording–that he was absolving the media a little to much of playing a roll in how people think. Regardless, we’re here now–however we got here. We go forward and Nov. 2018 can’t come soon enough.
All serious newsgathering organizations should boycott the White House Xmas party too, they shouldn’t leave CNN out on an island. Because just as sure as the nose on my face, Dotard will set his sights on them at some point. An attack on one is an attack on all.
Not what I said.
I merely pointed out another assertion not based on the best available facts.
Not to beat a horse that is no longer, alas, with us, but Josh gave Access Hollywood as a vivid example of a thing the media made people very much aware of but that the people decided they didn’t care about. That was his point, and I fail to see how it could be wrong or controversial. It seems self-evidently true to me.
I could imagine FIXED NOISE would co-host the Xmas Party since it’s the White House equivalent of Pravda.
Hmm. If I don’t want someone to attend my party, I just quietly don’t invite them. I don’t dance on their grave so to speak. Such graceless, classless people.
BTW, do they even get what this season is about or is “Merry Christmas” just a catchy jingle to them? Rhetorical question.