Ms. Ryan I applaud you.
Thank you for not stepping back. We need you now more than ever.
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April is a real journalist, which is not so common in the WH "Press Corps." She does ask good questions, but then suffers like we all do when nothing meaningful, or an outright lie or bald obfuscation comes back. One of the best things about April is, she is not a scold and does not ask gotcha questions; the TV people and many others have such a shallow understanding of the WH that those queries are all they can do.There is little news at the White House that gets covered. Most reporters are lazy; they either copy a real journalist or rehash the WH press release. Most are constrained by weak education and years of conditioning into the non-journalistic river within the Media Business.
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Please keep pushing, Ms. Ryan. We need you desperately. Thank you for your excellent work.
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I have watched April Ryan at press conferences and read her tweets - and she is rude and disrespectful, seeing everything though the lens of race. Compared to her lavish, over he top praise of Obama and his minions it is especially jarring. There is nothing about her demeanor or her pieces that show she is a serious journalist. She complains about changes where now you know a “journalist’s” politics - ironic considering her own behavior. She can say what she wants about Sanders but Ryan’s own attacks on her are petty and silly - remember Piegate? Some day Donald Trump won’t be president and people like April Ryan and Jim Acosta are going to have a lot to answer for to the American people for the way they degraded journalism to nothing more than the opinion page in the Daily Mail.
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The New York Times Magazine comes out 52 times a year. Fifty-two Sundays I can find out from the Magazine's end page interview who's who in the left-wing pantheon. Now I know about April Ryan.
Of course, on most Sundays since Donald Trump became president the Magazine interview we read on Sunday includes the usual anti-Trump screeds we get seven days a week in the rest of the sections. April Ryan doesn't disappoint.
I shouldn't complain. I own New York Times stock. It's done well.
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And yet, she was a great friend and almost a bridesmaid of Omarosa...how does that fit in?
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That fits into the Trumpian belief that all AAs know each other. If Ryan is a friend or admirer of Omarosa, that would reduce some people's respect for her.
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Thank You, April. I appreciate the dedicated members of the free press.
Our democracy depends on you.
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No human being would appreciate being scrutinized at the level that our presidents are, and we can all sympathize with that. That doesn’t change the fact that they are accountable to the American people, and there is absolutely no substitute for a free press in enabling us to hold them accountable. I don’t mind any president complaining about their bad press, that’s a normal reaction. But the deliberate tearing down of public trust in news media, to the degree that journalists were routinely threatened with violence at Trump rallies, is inexcusable and un-American to the core. Thank you, April, and all the White House press corps. You are heroes.
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How you and your colleagues can sit there and listen to Sanders lying doesn't sound like looking behind the curtain at all. All it seems to accomplish is giving credibility to the lies.
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Power, politics and transparency have been mortal enemies since Day 1. Only the names change...
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If even Presidents you respect are pushing you away, maybe there is a problem with the press coverage.
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