Podcasters and social media influencers will be permitted to apply for credentials to cover the White House, the new press secretary announced Tuesday.

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    Republicans’ top priority is to help people get stupider. This aids that. Imagine Alex Jones at these media events. Probably will happen now…

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    She also told reporters they are not allowed to criticize Glorious Leader. Gonna be a fun four years.

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    On a theoretical level this is a good idea. I do think that press availability shoukd be extended to professionals outside the big news corps.

    However… we all know how this is going to be exploited by this administration. They are going to fill the press seats with social media allies so they can push out or ignore journalists asking critical questions.

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      Agreed. This is one of the rare times where on the surface I agreevwith what this administration is doing. Of course in practice I don’t think it’s going to be used that way.