White House To Federal Agencies: Cancel New York Times and Washington Post Subscriptions

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Source: The Guardian

Government staffers instructed not to renew newspaper subscriptions after Trump complained about unfair coverage. The White House has instructed federal agencies not to renew subscriptions for the New York Times and the Washington Post, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Days after Donald Trump mused about cancelling White House subscriptions for the two newspapers in a Fox News interview, his administration is now reportedly advising federal agencies to do the same.

“Not renewing subscriptions across all federal agencies will be a significant cost saving – hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars will be saved, the White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, said in an email on Thursday, the Journal reported.

The White House ended its print subscription this week, according to a Bloomberg reporter...


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/24/white-house-trump-new-york-times-washington-post

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[benld74]

1. ANYONE with a .gov email address

That’s verifiable
Get The WP FREE
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[C_U_L8R]

2. Ignorance by imperial decree.

What a pathetic thinskinned nincompoop

[William Seger]

4. And again using government money for personal gain: vindictive revenge

[Grokenstein]

6. Next step:

Mandatory viewing of carefully-edited FOXNews "highlights."

[cstanleytech]

3. Any chance the papers could sue to force them to also cancel all other papers as well

in order to avoid any bias by the government?

[procon]

5. Trump is lying. Without reading what those papers

are writing about him, he won't have anyone to attack and claim he's such a victim. He's going to have his own private stash of banned newspapers because the reporters drive him crazy and he is so petty he has to respond.

He can't resist an opportunity to bash his favorite fake news sources. Everyone else will get their subscriptions cut, but never Trump.

[Captain Zero]

7. send him a fake subscription?

for the hell of it. Really have the stories go after him on speculation of the worst and see if he outs himself?

[LeftInTX]

8. I'm sure he has private online subscriptions or someone can just bring him a copy every day.

He's trying to prevent military personnel etc from receiving the information free of charge. Personnel will no longer be able to go a base library and read the Post or NYT.

[OKNancy]

9. Locking as a duplicate

earlier post here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142385762