Yes, but what good is access to lies when you lose your professionalism and integrity and become an unwitting accomplice to the dissemination of false propaganda?
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“Mortgage won’t pay itself”—is what a veteran journo used to tell me when I started reporting in ‘93.
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What? Selling yourself and the country out is the only way to pay the mortgage? Refusing to honor the foremost job of professional journalism - holding power accountable - is the only way to make ends meet? sorely disappointed in your response.
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She's right, though. It's all about money and being able to maintain the DC lifestyle. She didn't say she approves of it, she just said that's the way it is. Would you have preferred comfortable lies?
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I have a problem with this, not because it isn't the way career journalists view their professional obligations, but because other jobs exist. If you can't do a job that's built on truth and integrity with truth an integrity, hang up your hat and find different work.
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I'm not naïve. I know that one person asking one pointed question at a White House briefing won't change the world, but not having anyone to do it is a problem. Ideally we'd have an "I am Spartacus" moment of solidarity because our journalists value integrity over phony civility.
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But even short of that, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for somebody, anybody, to say what millions of us are thinking. Is that really career suicide? And if it IS too much, is that really a job you have to keep?
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But they could also do it through more aggressive reporting on his lies. Exhibit A, from todayhttps://twitter.com/markfollman/status/1081270335805124609?s=21 …
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Same. And same.
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Funny - DC press has absolutely no concern when they went after Hillary and Bill - then talked about Hillary’s emails for 600 straight days
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The question is: access to what? Lies?
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So is there a WH reporter who is close to retiring (or quitting) who will take the chance???
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I've thought of that lol. That reporter would be a legend lol
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Right. Too bad a regular person like me can't get access for a day. I wouldn't lose my poverty level grocery store job for asking questions.
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What good is access if you just stand there and let him lie through every question?
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but if you're just being fed BS who cares about access? I really wish the cable news networks would stop carrying anything he or sarah does live, it just makes me change channels or turn off the tv
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Also: Privilege. Trump hasn't harmed them yet
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That's American Journalism for ya these days, the Access Journalist route a la
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Well then, if ALL the WH reporters would call Trump, et al, on their lies, and no one shows up for their press conferences, and, find they are being slammed every day in the media.... wait, they won't change. They don't care. FOX will always be there, until they no longer exist.
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