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You put out headlines with trump in the title to get the clicks. This is what you've been signing up for and now you're being replaced assholes.

This week, the White House sank to a new low on that front, holding a first-of-its-kind “New Media Press Briefing.” While inviting journalists from smaller, less established outlets to the White House is ostensibly a good idea, that’s not what the administration did. Indeed, instead of inviting actual journalists to the event, the White House populated it with a slew of friendly influencers who were all too happy to kiss the president’s ass and ask White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt the softest of softball questions. It was bullshit questions and bullshit answers all the way down.

Leavitt kicked the briefing off by bragging about the administration’s various “accomplishments” over the past 100 years, er sorry, I meant days. “As I promised at my first briefing as press secretary back in January, the Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities—not just the legacy media who traditionally has covered this institution,” Leavitt said.___

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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 118 points 11 hours ago (9 children)

It is pretty funny since the media wanted this little shit show badly for the money. Oopsies

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 79 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

I've said this before, but a NYT reporter said exactly that during trump's first term. He said that he would rather have trump than anyone else because people want to read about him.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The media is the true deep state.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

I mean, its possible to oversimplify.

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