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"I think that is what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship...." February 25, 2017 9:11 pm RL

Back in December Spicer was asked if the Trump administration would continue the Trump campaign practice of banning certain media groups:
http://www.vox.com/2017/2/24/14732356/sean-spicer-banning-media-only-dictatorships

SHERMAN: One of the things that the Trump campaign gained notoriety for, and was criticized for, was banning reporters, banning outlets. Politico was one of them. You’ve said, I think, that you’re not — that’s not going to happen.

SPICER: I think, look, there’s a big difference, I think, between a campaign where it is a private venue using private funds and a government entity. And I think we have a respect for the press when it comes to the government, that that is something you can’t ban an entity from. You know conservative, liberal, otherwise I think that is what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship.

Now we have a President that calls news organizations ‘enemies of the people’, and bans them from news events:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cnn-new-york-times-other-media-barred-from-white-house-briefing/2017/02/24/4c22f542-fad5-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.66871d0e08cd

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/barring-the-white-house-press-corps-from-the-white-house.html

  • Just another brick in the wall. by hank 2017-02-26 04:06:06

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