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White House Warns Reporters Not to Report on Instructions About Not Reporting on Thursday’s Press Conference

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The Trump administration, acting on the fairly sound logic that its supporters don’t care in any way whatsoever about the civic principle that the government should be scrutinized by a free press, has started to cut down on the number of press conferences it gives that occur on camera. Wednesday, the administration announced that Thursday’s* press briefing by Sarah Huckabee Sanders would be one such no-video affair, then introduced a Kafka-esque twist by declaring that the announcement itself was “NOT REPORTABLE.”

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*Correction, June 22, 2017, at 12:50 p.m.: This post originally identified Thursday as Tuesday. It’s been a long week.