Posts Tagged ‘White House’
“Fake News” or Just Bad Press: The State of Journalism in Trump’s America
By Hillary Hyduke On November 7, 2018, President Donald Trump revoked the White House credentials of CNN’s chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, because Acosta “failed to ‘treat the White House with respect’ at a White House press briefing.”[1] The revocation raises questions regarding Trump’s strategy in dealing with press coverage with which he disagrees,…
Read MoreThe Whistleblowers in the White House
By Reuben Guttman[1] I practice law. My clients have been called sneaks and snitches. I just call them “whistleblowers.” If they sue a culprit who has defrauded the government under the False Claims Act against, I might also call them “relators.”[2] I try to explain to people that the term whistleblower is quintessentially American. It…
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