Update: After news organizations threatened to return to court to compel the White House to adhere to a recent judicial order to restore and honor their press passes, all three companies have reported that their journalists have been allowed to return to the building’s grounds. The original article appears below: A federal judge has ruled that media outlets suing the Trump administration over…
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The White House is being accused of violating federal law after it aired an ad glorifying President Donald Trump, which it explicitly said was “paid for by the US government.” The ad was first reported by CBS News Miami investigative reporter Jim DeFede, who saw it airing on Fox News Wednesday night. The 30-second spot features numerous videos and images of Trump, set to the song “Love…
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The state of Florida filed a shareholder lawsuit Wednesday against The New York Times in a Manhattan state trial court, arguing its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict would harm shareholder value for the state’s agencies and public sector retirees. The named plaintiff is the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA), which oversees more than $276 billion in assets for state and local…
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Three days after Donald Trump announced a new policy banning journalists from MS NOW (my employer), CNN and Politico from the White House, quite literally referring to his policy as “the ban on the free press,” the three news organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the president and several top administration officials challenging the unprecedented move.
Time will tell what becomes of the case, but hours after its filing, the president published a related item to his social media platform, effectively predicting a defeat and vowing to “go for appeal.”
But that’s not what stood out for me. Rather, what struck me as notable was the phrasing that followed. From the online statement:
[W]e’ll go for appeal because Fake News people and publications that only write negatively, and who violate our National Security by writing false and defamatory stories with unknown “sources,” shouldn’t be allowed access to the most important Office anywhere in the World.
Roughly seven hours earlier, after equating news organizations he dislikes with “cancer,” he also described journalism he disapproves of as “a threat to our National Security.”
A day earlier, the president tried to rebrand his “triumphal arch” as a “top grade Military Complex,” which he said he intended to complete “for National Security purposes.”
If the phrasing seems at all familiar, it’s not your imagination.
In December, after the administration took new steps to destroy the wind energy industry, with moves that even some of the president’s allies saw as radical, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the move was necessary “due to national security risks.”
Around the same time, Trump renewed his effort to annex Greenland and told reporters, “We need Greenland for
In one of his most direct assaults on the First Amendment, President Donald Trump announced in a Friday afternoon tirade that he would ban CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and Politico from the White House. “I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW … and Politico from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!
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If you are in San Francisco trying to follow the goings-on in your neighborhood or within city hall, you may have come across The Dissent. The website brands itself as “an AI newsroom” with work “reported, edited, and produced by named agents.” Its founder and publisher Dakota Carrasco — a real person, and, incidentally, an analyst at the notorious investment firm BlackRock — published text on the…
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