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Three months ago, Sean Spicer said that banning media outlets from presidential press conferences is something that dictatorships do. Yesterday, the White House did just that.

By Mark | February 25, 2017

At some point prior to the 2016 election, Donald Trump, angered by what he perceived to be negative press coverage, banned reporters from the Washington Post, Politico, and Buzzfeed from his campaign events. When asked this past December by Politico’s Jake Sherman whether or not we might expect to see the same kind of aggressive […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged blacklist, Breitbart News, Buzzfeed, CPAC, Dan Rather, Dean Baquet, dictatorship, Donald Trump, fake news, First Amendment, free press, journalism, New York Times, Politico, Sean Spicer, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy, Washington Post | 11 Comments

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