Reporters saying they’re told what questions to ask and say, even if they know it’s a lie, and if they don’t “our reporters won't get invited back into the Newsom press briefing”

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-20 10:54:15 | Updated at 2025-01-20 14:01:28 3 hours ago

Reporters saying they’re told what questions to ask and say, even if they know it’s a lie, and if they don’t “our reporters won't get invited back into the Newsom press briefing”
Twitter ^ | January 20, 2025

Posted on 01/20/2025 2:01:51 AM PST by lowbridge

“There are times that we look at what we are told to say and we wanna scream at the script because we know it's a lie, but we have to do it because otherwise our reporters won't get invited back into the Newsom press briefing, and we have to be there to cover it.”

If you break ranks and go against Democrats, you start getting lawsuits. “imagine getting sued. If you're a small local TV or radio station in California by the governor, you're screwed.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; control; democrats; media; newsom; press

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1 posted on 01/20/2025 2:01:51 AM PST by lowbridge

To: lowbridge

A Dictatorship... I know, I spelled it wrong...

2 posted on 01/20/2025 2:06:13 AM PST by Openurmind

To: lowbridge

You realize California used to be a state wide open for vigilante justice in the gold days. Guess the burnt out folks there now will just bend over. And here it comes again. BOHCIA. Pretty sad from where I stand. On your knees folks. Sad, just sad.

3 posted on 01/20/2025 2:18:26 AM PST by Equine1952

To: lowbridge

Then the reporters need to put on their big boy pants and tell the people straight-up that Newsom and his fellow Democrats are behaving like dictators.

"Access" be damned.

Now THAT is a story worth telling.

There are reporters and then there are journalists. Time to up their game.

4 posted on 01/20/2025 2:20:45 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (A perfect storm. There will be no escape from what is coming.)

To: Ciaphas Cain

“”Access” be damned.”

I agree, in fact THEY should boycott Newsom themselves. Deny him the outlet for his garbage altogether. Snub him.

5 posted on 01/20/2025 2:49:49 AM PST by Openurmind

To: Ciaphas Cain

“Then the reporters need to put on their big boy pants and tell the people straight-up that Newsom and his fellow Democrats are behaving like dictators.

“Access” be damned.

Now THAT is a story worth telling.

There are reporters and then there are journalists. Time to up their game.”

But then the presstitutes won’t be invited to all the right cocktail parties. /sarc>

Seriously, all of the current generation of legacy media are a bunch of craven little twits (or a word very similar to “twits”😉) who are more concerned with themselves than the pursuit of facts.

6 posted on 01/20/2025 2:52:19 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)

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