White House Bars CNN, NY Times, Politico, LA Times and BuzzFeed from Brief Access

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Spicer in December:

"We have a respect for the press, when it comes to the government, that that is something that you can't ban an entity from, conservative, liberal or otherwise. I think that's what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship."

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/835219520541364225

Dupe of NYTimes story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886

Not a dupe. The NYTimes is paywalled and doesn't add anything. (And yes, I know how to get around the paywall).

It's a dupe in the sense that the primary discussion on this topic is in the other submission. As of this comment, 324 comments.

And flagged off the front page from within an hour of its posting, despite the 300+ comments and 600+ points. Hard to discuss when it's been hidden.

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I'm sure it also triggered the flamewar detector, which also pushes it further down in the rankings. It still has had very healthy discussion despite being pushed down. As you point out, well over 300 comments.

In this situation it seems fair to classify it as a dupe. Would've been better to just post the link in a comment on the earlier post, and leave it to a moderator to update it instead.

Of course, they are just protecting the people from lies about the glorious leader, and from counter-revolutionaries trying to disturb with inappropriate questions.

Actually in this case they are protecting the glorious leader from the truths about the public.

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