The growth of fascism ?

[Tommy Tainant]

The Latest: EPA bars AP, CNN from summit on contaminants

The Environmental Protection Agency is barring The Associated Press, CNN and the environmental-focused news organization E&E from a national summit on harmful water contaminants.

The EPA blocked the news organizations from attending Tuesday’s Washington meeting, convened by EPA chief Scott Pruitt.

EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox told the barred organizations they were not invited and there was no space for them, but gave no indication of why they specifically were barred.

Pruitt told about 200 people at the meeting that dealing with the contaminants is a “national priority.”

Guards barred an AP reporter from passing through a security checkpoint inside the building. When the reporter asked to speak to an EPA public-affairs person, the security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.

We live in extraordinary times but this must jar with how Americans want their country to be governed ?

 

[AvgGuyIA]

I'm all for #repealFOTP and would prefer it, but this is the next best thing. Those reporters are biased and won't report the truth anyway. They don't belong in every meeting.

 

[Penelope]

I'm all for #repealFOTP and would prefer it, but this is the next best thing. Those reporters are biased and won't report the truth anyway. They don't belong in every meeting.

Yes the media is all bias but Fox, Trump said so.

 

[Penelope]

The government should be an open book, but you will get nothing from the Trump admin. They pick and choose. Sanders is nothing but an entertainment. Well Trump is as well. All hogwash. And Pruitt, he is a good for nothing, and spends tax payer money like its going out of style.

We live in a banana republic now.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

We live in a banana republic now.

Then I'll have a banana split! Sad you didn't complain when the Obama Regime barred Fox News from events, even harassing one of its reporters by investigating him. There's your fascism for ya.

Btw, not all news agencies were barred. There was no more room for the AP and CNN. The event had plenty of coverage.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I'm all for #repealFOTP and would prefer it, but this is the next best thing. Those reporters are biased and won't report the truth anyway. They don't belong in every meeting.

It would be good if the press stood up to this behaviour and and showed some solidarity. Ive never heard of this type of censorship in a modern democracy.