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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
The clever ones let them think so to get the best stories, the vain ones like him just get nothing and end up as he will as royal correspondent
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No sorry but this is ****ing absurd. The job of a political journalist is not to earn the respect of their interviewee, whether they're a local councillor or the POTUS. They are public servants and their job is to ensure they're accountable to the electorate. Did many complain about Paxman's interrogation of politicians on Newsnight? I don't think so, and rightly so too - if anything the respect was with him and not the other way around.
It is all well and good for people like you and I to have opinions on the quality of various media sources, in fact it should be encouraged - but the President of the United States cannot point blank refuse to talk to certain sections of the press because he doesn't like the fact they're critical of him, and subsequently label them 'fake news'. It is fascist through and through. Fox News slandered Obama for years, insinuating he was a Muslim and that he wasn't even born in the US - but I don't remember him refusing to take questions from them at press conferences or acting like a petulant child?
17-02-2017, 09:27 AM
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