Two days ago, The Washington Post ran a story 'quoting' Donald Trump with the following headline: Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting
Trump responded by revoking their press privileges at Trump events. Trump's people then issued the following statement:
TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT REGARDING THE WASHINGTON POST
The Washington Post unfortunately covers Mr. Trump very inaccurately. Today's headline, "Donald Trump Suggest President Obama Was Involved With Orlando Shooting" is a perfect example. We no longer feel compelled to work with a publication which has put its need for "clicks" above journalistic integrity.
They have no journalistic integrity and write falsely about Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump does not mind a bad story, but it has to be honest. The fact is, The Washington Post is being used by the owners of Amazon as their political lobbyist so that they don't have to pay taxes and don't get sued for monopolistic tendencies that have led to the destruction of department stores and the retail industry.
Well, today The Washington Post replied with the following:
The right response to Donald Trump? A media blackout.
Donald Trump’s ban of Post journalists has left other news outlets with a stark choice: your ratings or your responsibility as journalists in a free society?
Trump’s announcement that he is barring Post journalists from his events follows similar bans he put on reporters from Politico, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Gawker, Foreign Policy, Fusion, Univision, Mother Jones, the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Des Moines Register and the Daily Beast. Trump goons have been known to kick out undesirable reporters at Trump events.
For those journalists and media executives who still don’t share the view of Post Executive Editor Martin Baron that Trump’s action “is nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press,” it won’t be long before Trump comes for you, too.
Heh - they were caught in a bald-faced lie - a complete fabrication of an event and when called on it, they go running for mommy saying that Donnie hit them first. Every media outlet has a bias of some sort but regardless of their narrative, they are duty-bound to report the truth and The Washington Post failed on this.
This campaign is starting to get really interesting...
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