Day: July 2, 2017

wickedwitchofthewifi:

foxnewsfuckfest:

parentheticalaside:

micdotcom:

Reporter Brian Karem takes Sarah Huckabee Sanders to task during briefing over “inflammatory” media comments

Look at her face. If reporters actually forcefully pushed back on this shit, like White House correspondent for Playboy Brian Karem (???), maybe we’d get somewhere. Instead, day after day, the White House press corps quietly allows the White House to push them around and then makes mildly annoyed remarks about how unfair it is on Twitter.

I cannot believe PLAYBOY correspondents have more of a spine than CNfuckingN

The Playboy correspondent is less likely to lose his job because of it, you think hugh hefner or cooper sanders actually gives a shit about whether or not Trump is happy with them? Do you think it would actually matter to playboy if they weren’t allowed a correspondent at the white house? Playboy isn’t in competition with anyone there. They’re not competiting with CNN and Fox News, their job isn’t going to suddenly disappear if it takes them a couple more days to get the news. Whereas if a CNN correspondent got kicked out, and the white house refused to issue new credentials to their reporters they’d lose a massive market share, that reporter would be fired, and they’d pretty much never be able to work in the industry again because they’d be labeled “a risk”. 

Full on props to Brian Karem for standing up to that bullshit, but don’t disparage other people for not sacrificing their futures and livelihoods for it. It’s a tough time for everyone right now, and reporters for traditional news media have it hella tough too, especially if they’ve been assigned to the white house.