Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC was not having a good morning at the State Department. She got ignored by the secretary of state and then was escorted out of the room with everyone else. It does not appear that this was even a press conference, especially since one was scheduled that afternoon.
Andrea Mitchell opened the 12:00 pm, EST hour on MSNBC Tuesday by playing footage of State Department staffers preventing her from asking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson questions.
Mitchell is clearly unhappy with the Trump administration, and with Mr. Tillerson in particular. Before she and her colleagues get all self-righteous and start making claims about an inability of the press to have access members of President Trump’s team, she should notice that what is happening is that mainstream press outlets like MSNBC and CNN are being forced to share the available time with other members of the media — those who mainstream reporters do not consider to be their peers.
Mitchell’s frustration with the situation is obvious in these remarks of hers:
“This afternoon I’ll be at the first State Department briefing, the first in six weeks since the inaugural,” she continued. “An absence of public diplomacy not seen since 1953 when Dwight Eisenhower was president, when this tradition started of speaking out from the platform here at the State Department to the rest of the world.”
The media will have plenty of access to the Trump administration, if for no other reason than that President Trump seems to actually enjoy a good back and forth battle with representative of mainstream outlets such as CNN. The First Amendment is still safe.
Source: Daily Caller
Yep it would be very difficult to find any real reporters these days. They’re maybe a handful in the whole world now
Great
hahahaha, you blew it…just like always
love it
She needs a boot right up her liberal$#%&!@*!
Good
In 1953 there was integrity in the news media.
skelator needs gto retire
I think that’s funny because we want people to tell the truth about what is going on and not some made up c**p