Kyle Poop (I’m sorry. It’s Pope. I make spelling errors too.) speaks for all writers of the American press corpse (I’m sorry. That’s corps. I was channeling the most brilliant president ever, Barack Obama.), it seems, when he pens this open letter to Trump.
CJR-
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT ELECT:
In these final days before your inauguration, we thought it might be helpful to clarify how we see the relationship between your administration and the American press corps.
It will come as no surprise to you that we see the relationship as strained. Reports over the last few days that your press secretary is considering pulling news media offices out of the White House are the latest in a pattern of behavior that has persisted throughout the campaign: You’ve banned news organizations from covering you. You’ve taken to Twitter to taunt and threaten individual reporters and encouraged your supporters to do the same. You’ve advocated for looser libel laws and threatened numerous lawsuits of your own, none of which has materialized. You’ve avoided the press when you could and flouted the norms of pool reporting and regular press conferences. You’ve ridiculed a reporter who wrote something you didn’t like because he has a disability.
Keep writing that he mocked a reporter’s handicap. One day it’ll be true.
Also, you keep forgetting that Obama tried to pull Fox from the press pool.
All of this, of course, is your choice and, in a way, your right.
That would be “you’re right,” Kyle, King of all Editors.
While the Constitution protects the freedom of the press, it doesn’t dictate how the president must honor that; regular press conferences aren’t enshrined in the document.
But while you have every right to decide your ground rules for engaging with the press, we have some, too. It is, after all, our airtime and column inches that you are seeking to influence. We, not you, decide how best to serve our readers, listeners, and viewers. So think of what follows as a backgrounder on what to expect from us over the next four years.
In short, do not expect the anilingus Barack Obama received.
Access is preferable, but not critical. You may decide that giving reporters access to your administration has no upside. We think that would be a mistake on your part, but again, it’s your choice. We are very good at finding alternative ways to get information;
We make it up!
indeed, some of the best reporting during the campaign came from news organizations that were banned from your rallies. Telling reporters that they won’t get access to something isn’t what we’d prefer, but it’s a challenge we relish.
We are refreshed after the 8 year snooze we just had.
Off the record and other ground rules are ours—not yours—to set. We may agree to speak to some of your officials off the record, or we may not. We may attend background briefings or off-the-record social events, or we may skip them. That’s our choice. If you think reporters who don’t agree to the rules, and are shut out, won’t get the story, see above.
Kyle seems to be setting the ground rules for, and speaking for, all reporters, which makes him a bit of a fascist, no?
We decide how much airtime to give your spokespeople and surrogates. We will strive to get your point of view across, even if you seek to shut us out. But that does not mean we are required to turn our airwaves or column inches over to people who repeatedly distort or bend the truth. We will call them out when they do, and we reserve the right, in the most egregious cases, to ban them from our outlets.
That’s why Trump has Twitter.
We believe there is an objective truth, and we will hold you to that. When you or your surrogates say or tweet something that is demonstrably wrong, we will say so, repeatedly. Facts are what we do, and we have no obligation to repeat false assertions; the fact that you or someone on your team said them is newsworthy, but so is the fact that they don’t stand up to scrutiny. Both aspects should receive equal weight.
We the People will decide on what’s fact independent from some dope who still has the odor of Obama’s anus on their tongue. If someone “likes his reporter he can keep his reporter,” but the rest of us will do our own diligence. The press cannot be trusted, as evidenced by this sudden awakening from your slumber.
We’ll obsess over the details of government. You and your staff sit in the White House, but the American government is a sprawling thing. We will fan reporters out across the government, embed them in your agencies, source up those bureaucrats. The result will be that while you may seek to control what comes out of the West Wing, we’ll have the upper hand in covering how your policies are carried out.
You say this like this is a new thing, and THAT IS THE PROBLEM!
We will set higher standards for ourselves than ever before.We credit you with highlighting serious and widespread distrust in the media across the political spectrum. Your campaign tapped into that, and it was a bracing wake-up call for us. We have to regain that trust. And we’ll do it through accurate, fearless reporting, by acknowledging our errors and abiding by the most stringent ethical standards we set for ourselves.
Too late.
We’re going to work together. You have tried to divide us and use reporters’ deep competitive streaks to cause family fights. Those days are ending. We now recognize that the challenge of covering you requires that we cooperate and help one another whenever possible. So, when you shout down or ignore a reporter at a press conference who has said something you don’t like, you’re going to face a unified front.
Because it is impossible that Trump will ever be in a confrontation with a reporter who is saying or doing something that Kyle Pope doesn’t like. Do you see the tone here?
We’ll work together on stories when it makes sense, and make sure the world hears when our colleagues write stories of importance. We will, of course, still have disagreements, and even important debates, about ethics or taste or fair comment. But those debates will be ours to begin and end.
The disagreements will be if a reporter, God forbid, writes something positive about Trump.
We’re playing the long game. Best-case scenario, you’re going to be in this job for eight years. We’ve been around since the founding of the republic, and our role in this great democracy has been ratified and reinforced again and again and again. You have forced us to rethink the most fundamental questions about who we are and what we are here for. For that we are most grateful.
Enjoy your inauguration.
This is a tantamount admission that they were asleep for 8 years, purposefully.
Enjoy your free fall.
ht/ Boo 2
He’s from a “journalism” school!!!
Reporting the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How is DEAD. Now, it’s all about spin, vitriol and ‘gotcha’!
The FOURTH ESTATE has become a FIFTH COLUMN of the Leftist, Socialist, Anti-American body politic. The “Watchdog of Democracy” is now a sad, neutered, lapdog of the elites and globalists.
kyle, count the hours that you spent writing this pos and add them to the “time wasted during my life” category
Notes to Mr Poop:
1 In the words of President George W Bush, “Who cares what you think?”
2. Americans trust Trump over you clowns that consider yourselves journalists. Even the people that didn’t vote for Trump, they are certain you lie constantly and that you’d sell our your mother without blinking.
that’s sell out your mama
There’s a bunch of these 28 to 32 year olds that have never accomplished a damn thing in their life but some how feel compelled to tell the rest of us what the facts are, according to their interpretation. Fuck Off asshole.
More propaganda from a purveyor of propaganda.
“We, not you, decide how best to serve our readers, listeners, and viewers …”
“We, not you, decide how best to serve our readers, listeners, and viewers complete and utter bullshit, socialist propaganda, anti-American nonsense, pro-pervert and pro-izlamic pabulum, anti-Christian hate, and Globaloney-ism …”
There, fixed it for ya!
izlamo delenda est …
“…you’re going to be in this job for eight years. We’ve been around since the founding of the republic…”
The presidency has been around since the founding of the republic too. Unless he’s saying that he and his fellow fake news spewers are 230 years old.
Gee, a yammering, self important, leftist propagandist with a room temperature IQ… typical. What a jerkoff.
Poor pitiful thing. Let’s make him a nice cup of hot cocoa with marshmallows.
What a pathetic little bed wetter! This letter is the only thing I know about him, and I can’t stand him.
Get a haircut. No more combing over for Li’l O. Move the press out of the Briefing Room. Pull them out and place them somewhere else on the grounds. Build a modern room on top of Moose Gardens.
Who is this moron who’s name I was blissfully ignorant of before reading this article and why should I give a rats ass what he thinks?
Did you say, “the Poop”?
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President Trump should have all meetings with the press/pull/flush in the out doors through the month of May.
I think his grammar was correct, when you’re right, you are right. When you’re fighting for your rights, the rights are yours, they belong to you. I still think Kyle Poop is a bedwetter so don’t please don’t accuse me of being a troll.
“You have tried to divide us and use reporters’ deep competitive streaks to cause family fights.”
Sounds personal, Kyle. You get laughed at over the holidays or something?
Would love to see Trump move the MSM’s White House Press Corpse to the backyard. Let them watch the proceedings on TV. Honest reporters with no agenda to the West Wing.
Take your football… Um, I mean, soccer ball… No, wait, that’s Beck.
Um, never mind. Just go home, sweetie. Trump isn’t playing your game.
“We will set higher standards for ourselves than ever before”
Actually that’s a pretty low bar there, Mr. Pope.
I’ve got a multiple choice question for you Kyle. In private do you media people refer to yourselves as;
A)Lamestream media
B)Fakestream media
C)Liars
What a putrid, pompous, arrogant ass! You can tell by how he writes that he was one of the many who received the yearly award for breathing is school.
@reh
I agree with you about the your and you’re, but I think BFH was being sarcastic. Quite cleverly/cleverish?, too! hehehe
Bet he’s cute in his “onesie” pajamas.
izlamo delenda est …
I saw this posted on Facebook. The poster actually thinks this is the silver bullet letter that will FINALLY take down Trump! 🤣
Who the hell is Kyle Pope? Is he a real editor and if so, for what publication? Is he a student (as noted by a prior commentator) and finally every threatening sentence seems to start with “We”. Do other editors agree with him and if so why aren’t their names on this dismissive missive. It sounds like he just a little twink with delusions of grandeur.
wonder if his boyfriend helped him write that babbling pile of poop?
Bet his “onesie” jammies have a flap in the back, too.
izlamo delenda est …
There’s a youtube video of Chris Cuomo CNN admonishing his viewers:
remember it’s illegal for you to possess Wikileaks Clinton emails, but it’s OK for the media do so. We will let you know, what we feel you need to know. Something like that. However some Professor straightened his ass out on the matter. These fakers feel they can say whatever they want and be believed.
Pffft. Poofter Pope thinks he just laucnched a truth in journalism grenade with dire warning…. we’re the press, we control the message and we stick together!
La-ti-dah. They’re whores one and all. The first indication that a fellow “hack” seems to be getting the inside scoop and accurately reporting as such, he’ll be the first to cut bait and try to slither his way inside the WH.
Have fun in bankruptcy court
you forked tongue dweeb.
Actually, “your right” is also correct if the meaning is “a right belonging to you.” “You’re right” means “you are right” and also works in the sentence.
Just sayin.
Is he trying to imitate Trump hair in that pic, or is it his own actual combover?
What this moron fails to understand is that with his press pass and $2.75, he can ride a NYC subway–which is exactly the same price he would pay without his press pass.
No one is impressed with him (except for maybe his parents and his parakeet).
Another a-hole with delusions of relevance.
@Engekburka – I think people like him who whore for the corporate media, are going to learn the meaning of the term “competition.” And Trump is going to school them.
I really tried to read this poor excuse for an editorial/letter, but the bad grammar, run-on sentences, made up words and horrible spelling got the best of me. He writes like a fourth grader. In fact, leftist whiny snowflakes probably have the same psychological profile as a child that age.
From what I can decipher from litte Kyle’s ramblings, he’s complaining the press will not be allowed to run roughshod over the Trump administration. Oh, Boo Hoo!
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Figures.
One day he’ll grow up (maybe) and move out of mommy’s and daddy’s basement (maybe).
Yes – he’s complaining that the press will nt be able to run roughshod over the new administration.
I think taking away the WH space they’ve come to think they are entitled to is a great idea. It shows them right out of the gate that President Trump is running the country – not the lying, traitorous media.
Your mom called. Your hot pockets are ready.
The penis mightier than the…
One thing that would neuter the fakestream media is for the White House to have its own cameras and microphones and live stream every news conference, every public announcement, etc. so that anyone and everyone has the entire unedited – unpropagandized – version of what the administration REALLY said. Put everything in an online searchable media archive. Anyone with an internet connection could get the real story unfiltered by the media liars. If they even attempted it, their own competition would call them out because the public would instantly know they were being lied to and none of them would want to be accused of being complicit.