Trump to sign order next week on Obama’s coal moratorium, climate rules

Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) who recounted details of the lunch to reporters. “They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name. Let their name be put out there”.

‘He is going to use his vast popularity with the half of the country that identifies as liberals and progressives, ‘ said the Obama family source. It’s not an idle threat. As a candidate, Trump talked often about loosening libel laws. The Times, along with CNN, Politico and other major news outlets were denied admittance to a White House press briefing. To some in the media, the speech was a “reset” for the new president.

Shearer said she does not expect the blocking of media outlets to continue; however, she discussed how some other news outlets have said they will not attend if their colleagues are deliberately excluded, which has risky implications as well.

President Trump told reporters Tuesday that he is now open to compromising on immigration. But this fierce insistence that “fake news” is a rampant problem in our country should not be countered by shutting out and defaming news outlets simply because they disagree with Trump’s actions or attitudes. No president has had a ideal relationship with the press; the Obama administration kept a very watchful eye on the press, and need we revisit the Nixon years?

However, what is different about the Trump administration is its explicit encouragement of the American people to disbelieve and deride “the media” as an institution. As heard on the “Nixon Tapes” released in 1973, Richard Nixon told his press secretary, “I want it clearly understood from now on, ever, no reporter from the Washington Post is ever to be in the White House”. At the heart of publications like the New York Times and CNN are journalists committed to asking honest, hard-hitting questions and delivering honest, hard-hitting truths. This has been attacked by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who accused Trump of intentionally misleading the press. The result? The press corps that Trump claims to hate so much rallied to his cause and elevated him to new heights. Just one example is that despite then-President Barack Obama’s self-serving declarations his would be the most transparent administration in history, in 2015 there was a backlog of 160,000 requests for USA government documents that went unanswered. If he continues to unethically silence truthful reporting, he contributes to the misinformation of the -American people, regardless of citizenship or documentation.

Exactly what President Trump is contemplating now, isn’t clear, as AP’s Julie Pace reports.

But in Trump World, the experts are wrong. Other internal meetings with his senior White House aides, along with the congressional leaders, “drive the goals” from the address.

Stephens said that the restriction of these news sources should stimulate a renewed emphasis of the principles of good journalism for students, and he hopes these improvements will happen at NYU. Internet “fact checkers”, whose own biases and difficulty ascertaining the facts are not hard to identify and expose, are being integrated into the social media environment with the ostensible objective of preventing “fake news” from reaching the masses. Who will speak out for them?

The media establishment has fought back.

Many pundits cheered Trump for honoring the Navy SEAL killed in the Yemen raid.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for adopting a merit-based immigration system that could benefit high-tech professionals from countries like India, modifying his hard-line campaign rhetoric with a promise to revive the “American spirit”. And whistleblowers and their allies in the press will keep resisting his attacks and holding him to account.