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Infamous Watergate reporter Bob Woodward had some uncomfortable words for the mainstream media's safe-space-seekers. Following a tempestuous few days as the media and the White House toss propaganda grenades at one another, on Friday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Hardball" show, the Washington Post Associate Editor stated that:

the press “shouldn’t whine, and if we sound like we are an interest group only concerned with ourselves, it doesn’t work with the public. At the same time, we need to continue the in-depth inquiries, the investigations.”

The White House has banished some major news outlets from covering Sean Spicer’s afternoon press briefing. CNN, BBC, New York Times, LA Times, New York Daily News, Daily Mail, BuzzFeed, Politico and others are among the news outlets that were barred from attending Friday afternoon’s off-camera briefing with press secretary Sean Spicer at the White House.

Internet sleuths have discovered that over 50% of CNN’s Twitter followers – around 16 million of them – are fake accounts purchased by CNN. A push by the network to try and discredit the Project Veritas CNN leaks prompted internet detectives to examine CNN’s shady social media strategy. Infowars.com reports: An audit of CNN’s Twitter account reveals that their most recent rating reflected an abysmal 46% real followers, 54% fake. It should be noted that this audit reflects information from four years ago, when CNN had just over 30 million followers; they now have 32 million followers.

Predictably, those members of the media who were locked out of a Q&A session with White House spokesman Sean Spicer, have reacted furiously, led by CNN who on Friday sharply condemned the White House's decision to block it and several other outlets.

"This is an unacceptable development by the Trump White House. Apparently this is how they retaliate when you report facts they don't like. We'll keep reporting regardless," CNN said in a statement.

President Trump has begun banning corrupt members of the mainstream media from White House press briefings, with CNN, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times among the first to have their access rights revoked. The Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, and BBC are among the other mainstream outlets to be banned by the White House, just hours after President Trump warned during his CPAC speech that “we’re gonna do something about the media“.