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What actual purpose do they serve? I'm not talking about Trump in particular. I'm talking about in general. All they do is spew the administration's line, which is usually always known anyway. When they don't mind telling the truth they tell the truth. When they don't want to tell the truth then they lie or spin out of it in some fashion. Every press secretary or president back as far as I can remember has done this. Now the left claims that everything coming out of Trump's mouth or Sander's mouth is a lie so why even bother asking anything if you believe it will be a lie anyway? What's the point? What does it matter if Acosta asks a question or doesn't ask a question when Acosta himself probably believes the answer will be nothing but BS? And, how many press conferences actually reveal any Earth shattering new information that was not known before? And, if there is any Earth shattering new information, how do you know it to be true of any president or press secretary? The whole thing has been a joke long before the Trump administration came along. It's just another propaganda arm of whatever administration is in power. The "Freedom Of The Press" really isn't a check on anything and pretty much has no power, accept in the court of public opinion, which the press influence with their own biases.
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