White House Bars Times and Other News Outlets from Briefing

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Previous discussion (500 points, 250 comments) from 1 hour ago that has been flagged off the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886

Flagged on what basis? Has HN released a new policy on political issues?

Flagging is done almost entirely by users. I've seen no announcement regarding a change in policy regarding politics. I'm sure this submission triggered the flamewar detector as well, further driving down the ranking.

I think the US gave away too much democracy to too many countries lately, they seem to have very little left for themselves.

> Breitbart News, the One America News Network and The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also attended.

The sentence is misleading and normalizes something that is very dangerous: The WSJ and Fox absolutely have conservative leanings. IMHO, WSJ, at least their editorial page, and Fox are propaganda outlets. (To be clear, I despise propaganda of all stripes; the conservative side is far more powerful these days - there is no left-wing propaganda outlet with a fraction of the power of Fox and the WSJ (or Rush Limbaugh and the rest of conservative talk). Huffington Post is maybe the biggest, but I don't read them enough to know if they qualify as propaganda. Publications like Common Dreams or Tom Paine are laughable as competition.)

So says my dad as I told him this news: "That is not a news briefing, it is a friendship."

As Bannon said "The media here is the opposition party." I hope they do their best to oppose the alternative facts and misinformation.

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