There's this one further thing I'd like to know along these lines:

Where's Melania? Watching CNN in her private bedroom?

There's some truth to that. People are putting children at risk to get here. People die in the desert from the heat and dehydration. Women and children get raped. About two weeks ago a man nearly died in a chair near my front door. I called border control but I was literally worried he would die before they came to pick him up. One has to wonder how bad we would need to make incarceration to make it a disincentive to people who are risking death. When people are willing to die to get away from the situation in their home country we have to come up with a different solution to making their life miserable when they get caught crossing the border.

I was just pointing out the media comment because it related to barefooted's posted article, that's why I underlined that part. I almost thought of removing the immigration reference in WaPo's title link to avoid hijacking her point , but was too lazy.

But as long as it has now been addressed, I would just point out on Ivanka's immigration statement ,that there's more than a few Democrats who think that way as well, i.e.: legal immigration only. The problem for those Dems really is what her father is trying to do with legal immigration (country bans, visa limits, DACA people, etc.) and, as oceankat pointed out, what to do with illegals arriving despite all the discouragement. Most of that is Congress' fault, they were supposed to be revising the law which would also instruct the president what he can and cannot do, but instead they have put it all on the back burner because it is so controversial and crosses party lines in odd ways. Everyone who votes in mid-terms should pressure the candidates about what they are going to do about it all.

Politico.com:

Trump administration splits over journalists as ‘enemy of the people’

By Rebecca Morin 08/02/2018 05:50 PM EDT

President Donald Trump and his top spokeswoman on Thursday defended an increasingly combative relationship with the press as the White House took heat over the president’s claims that journalists are “the enemy of the people.”

“They asked my daughter Ivanka whether or not the media is the enemy of the people,” Trump tweeted on Thursday afternoon. “She correctly said no. It is the FAKE NEWS, which is a large percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people!” The president did not clarify which outlets he considered “fake news.”

Trump tweeted not long after taking office that the “FAKE NEWS media” — which he said referred to a host of mainstream outlets, including The New York Times, NBC, ABC and CNN — were “the enemy of the American People!” But his older daughter, Ivanka Trump, said Thursday she didn’t agree.

“I’ve certainly received my fair share of reporting on me personally that I know not to be fully accurate,” she said during an interview with Axios on Thursday morning. “So I’ve had some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe, especially when they feel targeted.” But she said she did not “not feel like the media is the enemy of the people.”

After those remarks got attention, Trump tried to add nuance, saying his initial tweet referred to “FAKE NEWS, which is a large percentage of the media,” not all news outlets  But the back-and-forth only highlighted how tension has grown between the White House and journalists over the last few weeks as he has ramped up his anti-media rhetoric and singled out specific outlets, particularly CNN [....]

And this morning:

Trump targets MSNBC, CNN in tweet attacking media

By Louise Nelson 08/02/2018 07:49 AM EDT

The Finnish press ridiculed both heads of state when they came to Helsinki

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-called-clown-and-spreader-of-fake-facts-by-helsinki-press-2018-7

White Supremacists will still march in D.C. even if the press ignores them. The press should not hide. Tell the country the truth. The press didn’t vet Trump. He was never forced to produce taxes, etc. Ivanka gets to do an interview where she tells us how parents traumatized by having their children kidnapped represented a low point in her life. Huckabee Sanders says the the President thinks the press is the enemy of the people and who is she to say otherwise. 

The deplorables are not going to believe MSM. The rest of us want to know that there are racists and bigots at our doors.

Yeah, good. As I said before, I don't get all het up by them playing into it a little.

First, to go back to the start of your thread, all I was saying is I respected the Politico reporter for doing that, I think that was very professional of him, a show that he was going to try to control his emotions.

But in the end, who he mainly attacks, is our current infotainment TV news, as it's what he watches, and truth be told, cable CNN of today (as opposed to the online site which has much broader coverage, as do their foreign broadcasts) is a far cry from Ted Turner's CNN of real hard news, it's mostly all punditry. And MSNBC is all political punditry, hardly any news. And then it's like: what's good for the goose is good for the gander, I'm a little cynical about that, the attention has raised their business greatly, business hasn't been so good in a long time. and a lot of them find Trump as an atagonist exhilarating, it's like: we've been blessed to be in the biz in interesting times, when the public is interested. And the Jim Acosta's, types, the big stars, they should be able to take care of themselves here and figure when is the time to milk it for ratings and when is the time to pull back. And I think the last few days Acosta is thinking of all his low-paid colleagues who may now truly have a little fear for their lives and safety from Trump crazies, and that's why he's challenging. Just because Trump has so tripled down on it the last week or so.

But I also think true professionals, they would be taking Jay Rosen's advice. And that would include probably turning down the job of White House propaganda reporter at this time.

Excepting that I do have admiration so far for how the WaPo and NYTimes White House people have been handling it: which is: cynically (and a few other old timers like April Ryan.) You especially see it following their tweets which are often throwing stuff out there to their colleagues to get more input on what's really behind the latest bullshit.

Here's one of the reasons why: they know at the same time he's blasting them, he wants their attention at times or will have things leaked to them. Never forget he has long been a manipulator of leaks to the "fake news", long before he ran for president. It is all bullshit, his "fake news" thing, just total troll bullshit. To distract. As he says "SAD!"

I do feel other outlets like Daily Beast or Buzz Feed or Vanity Fair Hive are in the White House beat biz mainly for the juicy clickbait gossip. (As is that one guy at Axios, but then they do a good job of balancing it with serious and broad coverage of what's really going on.)  But if you are a real new junkie, like I am, you like that stuff for seeking tea leaf clues. The downside, the danger, reading too much too often of this stuff, though, to buy into Trump's trolling, to get a sense of panic that the whole world is falling apart  and not realize you're feeding the troll, doing his fake narrative, and lose sense of big picture. And that's when I really appreciate and admire the pros that leave their emotion and punditry and personal opinion at their home door.