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EPA blocks CNN and Associated Press journalists from attending Pruitt speech

Pedestrian said:
We see it right in front of our eyes, if their open. Freedom of the press and speech be damned. Locking any press out is part & parcel...fascism.

It is govt. control and is in my dictionary. How are the security people physically removing the press from the bldg., not just like the Gestapo ?

Oh I see, we now have government of Trump, by Trump...and for Trump.
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Two media outlets not gaining entry over many other media outlets isn’t Gestapo anything. Peddle that ridiculous hyperbole with someone who is actually fooled by it.
 
hanger4 said:
And yet reporters were there. So no.
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Thinking you don't know what censorship is...

During war letters home from soldiers are censored, they have CERTAIN passages removed but the letter goes home...

TOTAL censorship would block ALL letters home...

Pruitt censored the affair by blocking the more ardent reporters from attending- childish, dangerous to a democracy, stupid to say the least-

But definitely a form of censorship... :peace
 
notquiteright said:
Thinking you don't know what censorship is...

During war letters home from soldiers are censored, they have CERTAIN passages removed but the letter goes home...

TOTAL censorship would block ALL letters home...

Pruitt censored the affair by blocking the more ardent reporters from attending- childish, dangerous to a democracy, stupid to say the least-

But definitely a form of censorship... :peace
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Censorship

1. the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

Nope, ............. didn't happen.
 
hanger4 said:
Censorship 1. the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. Nope, ............. didn't happen.
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Merrian Webster disagrees- where did you get your definition?
 
notquiteright said:
Makes perfect sense to anyone not sucked in by Trump and his cabal's ridiculous hyperbole.... :peace
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Not sure what hyperbole that you're trying to deflect with but I'm pointing out that CNN and AP not gaining access, out of the multitudes of other media agencies, is not "censorship" and it's not the "Gestapo" or any other such nonsense.

If you want to bring up other things, just started a thread on it.
 
Pedestrian said:
Not all of them if you can find any conservatives in Washington. Extremely few republicans and almost no dems...are conservative.
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That's true, not all of them. There is a sliver of people who are truly consistently Libertarian in their views on government power.
 
Remember how conservatives went nuts because Obama wouldn't go on Fox?
 
Fishking said:
Not sure what hyperbole that you're trying to deflect with but I'm pointing out that CNN and AP not gaining access, out of the multitudes of other media agencies, is not "censorship" and it's not the "Gestapo" or any other such nonsense. If you want to bring up other things, just started a thread on it.
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Again I' pretty sure those not so far gone in the rabid right understand what hyperbole I was meaning, not deflecting just wishful thinking.... :peace
 
hanger4 said:
https://www.google.com/search?clien.........0....1.......3..0i71j35i39.mRX9ViSTwlM=
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There isn't an acknowledgement of the source of that definition... at least Merrian sees more than one very narrow version...

So wartime censors weren't censors???

Screening questions to be asked isn't censorship???

Sorry Dude but excluding certain news agencies because of past questions is a form of censorship- an attempt to cow reporters and keep embarrassing questions away from the king of Fake News and his entourage.... :peace
 
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