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So Jeff Bezos became a Koch brother. Didn't see that coming.
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I watched "All the President's Men" on Turner Classic Movies just the other night. It's a sign of how far our media - and we - have fallen that the Washington Post has moved from a crusading newspaper that was unafraid to challenge even a US President if they had evidence he was committing criminal acts to what will now be just another echo of the right-wing news media that now dominates the country. And MSNBC has clearly moved in the same direction by firing pretty much every liberal commentator, most of whom are minorities. This is exactly what Orban did in Hungary - either intimidate and bully Hungary's news media into doing his bidding or just have his wealthy supporters buy them and turn them into little more than mouthpieces for his policies. So much for the once-mighty and respected Washington Post, which will now become little more than a mouthpiece for Trumpism - a newspaper that in Trump's first term warned that "democracy dies in darkness." Indeed, Jeff Bezos, indeed.
 
If Trump, of "Art of the Deal" fame and uber Negotiator, is afraid to take questions from HuffPost, Associated Press and MSNBC, then how strong would he be when confronting Vladimir Putin Xi Jinping or Kim Jong Un ?
 
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Trump is scared - he says all of that stuff because he sees that his approval is taking down towards term 1 very quickly...so say the opposite so his cult believes the facts are fake.

It's his tired playbook, but it does show that he knows the cracks are present.
 


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So TASS “reporter” got in without approval and had to be told to leave? Security review in order?
 

White House’s Favored Reporter’s Outlet Took Payments For Covering Trump​

Brian Glenn was the one who asked Zelenskyy why he wasn’t wearing a suit. RSBN, the “news” outlet he helped build, has taken $192,000 from Trump.

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White House’s New Favorite Reporter’s Outlet Took Payments For Covering Trump

Brian Glenn was the one who asked Zelenskyy why he wasn’t wearing a suit. RSBN, the “news” outlet he helped build, has taken $192,000 from Trump.
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“… Over those years, the outlet took $92,000 in “broadcast” fees, first from Trump’s Save America committee and then from Trump’s campaign, according to a HuffPost review of Federal Election Commission filings.

… Glenn acknowledged the payments in a brief interview, describing them as “production” costs, and then pointed to the row of television cameras set up in the back of the White House briefing room.

“Who pays for them?” he asked, suggesting that the major networks like NBC, CNN and Fox also accept money from the entities they cover.

In fact, taking such payments would be considered a serious ethical breach among reputable news outlets. The television networks covering this and previous White Houses, as well as print and radio outlets, all pay their own expenses when covering political events, as does HuffPost.

Indeed, the Trump administration, including the White House, has falsely accused legitimate news organizations of corruption because government agencies, even those in the first Trump term, bought subscriptions from them, including some to expensive, lobbyist-oriented trade publications.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary who had worked on Trump’s campaign, also acknowledged the payments.

“The Trump campaign paid RSBN for the usage of their live stream,” she said.


She did not address HuffPost’s question regarding the ethics of an outlet accepting money from the subject it was covering. …”
 
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