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‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes
(www.theguardian.com)
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But just like Trump found out in Iran, power comes from how much you can get others to go along with your plan. He has power when people capitulate in advance to his illegal and unconstitutional orders. Sure, the way he operates will become more illegal and unconstitutional when you ignore him, that won't make him powerful so long as nobody listens to him. The journalist boycot in response to the press pass denial was the first thing resembling a spine from the media.
Emphatically agree except for the last sentence unfortunately, I think the reason that journalist boycott happened is because members of the White House press pool have agreement with each other to share resources
Like, the whole reason for a press pool is that it's a logistical impossibility for every interested news organization to get a journalist into most events because there just isn't enough space, so CNN Fox etc. say "Ok, your employees cover Monday, we do Tuesday, WaPo does Wednesday, etc., and we all share whatever video or audio we get."
So, I think Fox heard about CNN and the others getting banned, and they were like "Oh so now we're responsible Monday and Tuesday? Hell no, I'm not paying the staff hours for that, concentration camps and extrajudicial executions I can forgive but I will burn this government to the ground if they make me go over budget this quarter."
It's out of self-interest I agree. And now that it affects them, they are skipping the sanewashing on this one issue. If it didn't affect them, they would be reporting on it like:
The journalist boycott has happened before. Last time Trump banned reporters, all the major outlets stood up for them. Whatever you think about any of those outlets, they all understand that an attack on one of them could just as easily be an attack on any of them - especially with The Idiot in charge. That’s why they respond in the way they do.
Weirdly, it’s a similar argument that supports the unions many of these networks spend so much time railing against.