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White House Bars Times, CNN and BBC from Briefing

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886

It was #1 on the homepage then was instantly buried to #20. I'm not sure how that happened, tbh. This one is also being buried.

Edit: now basically killed.

Perhaps it was flagged because this doesn't fit the news guidelines, and as interesting as it is, it's still just politics.

Politics isn't banned.

Nothing is banned as they are guidelines, but the first words from the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics...".

If a popular story doesnt have a STEM, privacy or startup aspect, it likely belongs elsewhere. Otherwise, HN becomes more of a generic news thread app than a startup community.

Vote brigading?

I was about to dismiss your post about it being "buried" when it is still on the front page, but it is dropping like a rock suspiciously fast.

I'm sure it's set off the flamewar detector, as well as received flags, which affects ranking even before the title reflects the [flagged] tag.

The Trump administration will just get more and more desperate as they 1. get totally nothing done, and nothing passed, except singing a bunch of worthless EOs. 2. get caught in various scandals, and the investigations get more and more intense 3. economy stalls

Wars are often used to distract from domestic inadequacies. Another million dead world citizens to make the MIC rich because a whiny despot doesn't have a clue.

Also anecdotally, DJIA closed up on another numerical record, so a deep recession might be possible when the Goldman Sachs' Wall St accomplices' latest trickery overheats the economy.

dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886, also on the front page

Reason enough for me to buy a subscription to the NY Times.

same here

bought mine last week

This is what oppressive totalitarian regimes do.

This is most likely not going to happen and if it did probably going to end badly: What if nobody showed up for these briefings and press conferences anymore?

I'm sure Trump / Bannon's ideal scenario would be to have only Breitbart report on Whitehouse news, and Trump will communicate through Twitter. They'll also manipulate various data released through official channels to reinforce their reality. This is the first president that has been arguing that the unemployment rate is higher than the official recognized rate (I know there are various measures) while he is in office.

Better to get the information from leaks anyway. Likely more accurate.

There's only so many times you can put out misleading content and get away with it.

Do you think the WH has a problem with the accuracy of the news reports, or do you think they care more about silencing criticism?

I'm also curious to know your thoughts on how the Executive Branch and Press relations look like in South American countries, it looks like in Bolivia things aren't as bad as they are in Ecuador [1][2].

Evo is on his way to being in power until 2020, Correa doesn't look like he'll let up (after inheriting Venezuela from Chavez), and Maduro is supervising the collapse of his country.

Like Trump, these so called leaders have promised "el pueblo" (i.e. the people, aka the forgotten man etc...) change. He is clearly showing the same tendencies of opinion repression that allow a permanent hold on power (for his benefit really, not of the people who were swindled).

Are some of us too worried about the eery parallels?

[1] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/bolivia [2] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/ecuador

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