Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime | Lawrence Douglas
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Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:30:03 +0200

As the White House handpicks members of the press pool, questions for the president amount to fluffy valentinesYou know were in trouble when Fox News emerges as the great defender of freedom of the press.
But such was the case when Jacqui Heinrich, a senior political correspondent at Fox, responded to the news that Trumps White House would now handpick the reporters who get to cover the president in small settings, with the post This move does not give the power back to the people it gives power to the White House.
Heinrich was specifically responding to press secretary Karoline Leavitts Orwellian claim that letting Donald Trump choose who would cover him was designed to restore power back to the American people.The fruits of the new policy were richly on display during the sickening scene that unfolded in the Oval Office last week.
If the president and JD Vances disgraceful treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy wasnt bad enough, there was the unprecedented role that the press played in the unseemly drama.
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