Attacking Freedom of Speech or Fake News? BBC, CNN and Guardian and More in Trump’s Whitehouse Press Ban

Last Friday various principally left-leaning media outlets were refused access to a press briefing or gaggle given by Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer. Given Trump’s continued assertions that the Mainstream Media are Fake News and the Enemy of the American People, they have responded that this is an infringement of the First Amendment and Freedom of the Press. As we shall see, this is just the butthurt reaction of an entitleg group who are too accustomed to their own privileged status.

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Trump press ban: BBC, CNN and Guardian denied access to briefing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/media-blocked-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer

“This is NOT okay” CNN reacts to being BLOCKED from White House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-OYScYpSy8

Donald Trump’s Twitter Feed

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Donald Trump’s Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/videos/1233624300058634/

Trump Plans to Skip White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/business/media/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner.html?_r=1

McCain: Trump’s attacks on press are ‘how dictators get started’

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02...

Obama vs. Fox News — behind the White House strategy to delegitimize a news organization

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/29/obama-vs-fox-news-behind-white-house-strategy-to-delegitimize-news-organization.html

First Amendment to the United States Constitution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution