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    Donald Trump revokes Washington Post press credentials

    Donald Trump revokes Washington Post press credentials
    by Tom Kludt and Brian Stelter @CNNMoney June 13, 2016: 11:37 PM ET

    Donald Trump said Monday that he is "revoking" the Washington Post's press access at his campaign events, calling the newspaper "phony and dishonest."

    In a Facebook post, the presumptive GOP nominee attributed the decision to the newspaper's "incredibly inaccurate coverage" of him.

    The Post's executive editor Marty Baron responded:

    "Donald Trump's decision to revoke The Washington Post's press credentials is nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press. When coverage doesn't correspond to what the candidate wants it to be, then a news organization is banished. The Post will continue to cover Donald Trump as it has all along -- honorably, honestly, accurately, energetically, and unflinchingly. We're proud of our coverage, and we're going to keep at it."

    Monday's announcement was an astonishing move by the Trump campaign, given the Post's status as one of the most respected newsrooms in the United States.

    But it follows a pattern. Trump has repeatedly refused to give press credentials to major news outlets when he disagrees with coverage decisions.

    Reporters who do not receive press credentials are sometimes still able to attend Trump events as members of the general public. But sometimes the denial of press credentials restricts access altogether.

    BuzzFeed, Politico, The Daily Beast, Univision, and The Huffington Post are among other outlets that have been blocked in recent months. Some journalists have described this as an emerging Trump "blacklist."

    The Huffington Post tweeted at The Post on Monday afternoon and said "Welcome to the club."

    On Monday, Trump was apparently outraged by a headline on a Post story that summarized comments he made about the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

    "I am no fan of President Obama, but to show you how dishonest the phony Washington Post is, they wrote, 'Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting' as their headline," Trump wrote. "Sad!"

    That headline was the result of an interview Trump gave to Fox News on Monday morning.

    "Look, we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind," Trump said of Obama. "And the something else in mind -- you know, people can't believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words 'radical Islamic terrorism.' There's something going on. It's inconceivable. There's something going on."

    Trump's remarks about Obama were widely interpreted to be sinister in nature.

    CNNPolitics described Trump's comments as a "conspiracy theory" and said it is "similar to how Trump talked about Obama when Trump was leading the 'birther' attacks against the president five years ago."

    The Post later adjusted its story to make the headline tamer. The headline now reads, "Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting."

    Kris Coratti, a spokeswoman for the Post, told CNNMoney that the headline was changed "shortly after it posted to more properly reflect what Trump said."

    "We did so on our own; the Trump campaign never contacted us about it," Coratti said.

    The Post -- like many other news outlets -- has had a simultaneously close and contentious relationship with Trump.

    Its reporters have regularly interviewed Trump and published scoops about his campaign.

    But at the same time, the paper has been on the receiving end of the candidate's anti-press tirades. Trump said in December that the Post's owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, bought the paper as part of a tax scam. Trump repeated the charge last month, saying that Bezos is "using the Washington Post for power so that the politicians in Washington don't tax Amazon like they should be taxed."

    Speaking at a conference earlier this month, Bezos decried Trump for trying to "chill the media."

    A wide range of press freedom advocates have said similar things about Trump's insults and actions, even as some GOP voters have cheered him on.

    Last week, for example, BuzzFeed DC bureau chief John Stanton said he was prohibited from attending Trump's primary night press event. The prior day, BuzzFeed had announced that it would refuse to accept Trump campaign ads. But the campaign's refusal to grant the web site press credentials dates back many months.

    Stanton tweeted that he "wasn't even let on the premises of Trump's golf course for his press conference."

    Trump's announcement on Monday was met with a chorus of opposition from members of the news media.

    Politico editor Susan Glasser called it a "violation of the basic right of a free press to report."

    David Folkenflik, the media correspondent for National Public Radio, said that Trump "loves the media's attention and hates the media's reporting."

    The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement, "A candidate for the highest elected office in the land doesn't get to choose what goes into a newspaper."

    It added that Trump's actions "provides a ready made excuse for authoritarian leaders to crack down further on independent journalists."

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    The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement, "A candidate for the highest elected office in the land doesn't get to choose what goes into a newspaper."
    A candidate for the highest elected office in the land gets to choose who is admitted into his events, though, and that is all that Trump is doing, deciding who enters his events that he's paying for.

    The press has abused its free press rights. It's lied about Trump, lied about what he says, what he does, what he means, what he wants to do. I've never seen such dishonest reporting in a political campaign as what I've seen this year. You think you're above the law, you think you're above fairness, you think you're about truth. That's not what Americans have fought for all these years to protect the First Amendment. You've for the most part disgraced yourselves, betrayed our citizens and voters, and Trump has said ENOUGH. He can't stop you from writing and doesn't want to, but he doesn't have to endure you dirtying his carpets at his events. So you just go along your merry little wicked ways and do what you do without first-hand coverage of Trump events. Others will be there, you can report on their reporting.
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    We also have the "right" to use the Washington Post as a doggie poop pad!

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