Sunday 26 February 2017

Sean Spicer once said only dictatorships would ban media access | The Independent

For John LEE (Editor of the SCMP LETTERS page). 

Hi John,
The link below is *FOR* the Editor, not a Letter TO the editor. In case they haven't seen it. 
It supports the Post's editorial today "Trump has gone too far with media ban". 
(Indeed he has. He's gone too far in heaps of other ways, though that's another story)
The story below highlights Trump spokesman Sean Spicer's hypocrisy. He said as recently as December 2016 that "only a dictatorship would prevent the media from access to public information".  
Welcome to the dictatorship, then. 
The quote is available somewhere in a video so we know the words are not doctored or "fake news". 
Spicer is hoist, as they say, by his own petard. 
This flagrant hypocrisy needs more widespread circulation by "the enemies of the people". 
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer once said that only a dictatorship would prevent the media from access to public information. And just two months later he blocked several high-profile news outlets from the daily press briefing.
Read the rest....