• Former Press Secretaries Say Donald Trump’s Relationship With Journalists Will Be Unprecedented
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[quote]WASHINGTON ― Three former White House press secretaries told NBC’s Chuck Todd that the incoming Trump administration will be a very different beast when it comes to dealing with the press. “We’ve just elected a man who bullies female reporters at his rally as an applause line,” said Nicolle Wallace, who served as White House communications director under President George W. Bush. “We have just elected a man who started a hot war with a female anchor instead of attending a debate she moderated. We are in a new place. And I don’t think it’s good. And I don’t think it has any parallels to the past.”[/quote] [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/former-press-secretaries-donald-trump-journalists_us_58692aaae4b0eb586489d9b6?zpjkmii0t1kur3sor[/url]
Unpresidented* I think it's obvious that trump has beef with journalists since every single journalist, whether dishonest or honest, has called him out for his shit. Instead of attending press conferences, the press now has to continuously hit F5 on trump's twitter account. The press can't ask questions anymore, they can only listen.
Sound's like he's gave up on trying to expand libel laws, instead he has decided to forgo the Press Corps.
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;51611215]Unpresidented* I think it's obvious that trump has beef with journalists since every single journalist, whether dishonest or honest, has called him out for his shit. Instead of attending press conferences, the press now has to continuously hit F5 on trump's twitter account. The press can't ask questions anymore, they can only listen.[/QUOTE] "Y'know, hating journalists was great for the campaign but now, we don't care."
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;51611331]"Y'know, hating journalists was great for the campaign but now, we don't care."[/QUOTE] For once I think he will care, a lot. He can't take his ego being assaulted by reporters and journalists like this. He's going to have a hostile relationship with the press, and his supporters are eating it right up.
Didn't Richard Nixon despise the media (even before Watergate)?
[QUOTE=Aredbomb;51611828]Didn't Richard Nixon despise the media (even before Watergate)?[/QUOTE] Most presidents did.
[QUOTE=Shirt.;51611999]Most presidents did.[/QUOTE] True, but Nixon (and Agnew) had a particularly aggressive and adversarial relationship with the press. [quote]The Watergate burglary can be traced to his confrontation with The New York Times, The Washington Post and the rest of the nation’s newspapers in the Pentagon Papers case, where Nixon ordered his Attorney General to suppress publication of a secret Defense Department history of the Vietnam War, which had been leaked by antiwar activist Daniel Ellsberg. “Do you think, for Christ’s sake, that The New York Times is worried about all the legal niceties. Those sons of bitches are killing me,” Nixon told his aides, ordering them to stage a break-in at the Brookings Institution, to retrieve Defense Department documents stored there. The Left and the Press were against him. “They’re using any means. We’re going to use any means.” After taking that battle to the Supreme Court, and losing, Nixon authorized the creation of a team of “plumbers” to stop leaks and smear leakers. Within weeks, they had botched a break-in at the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. That same team of clowns would, a year later, get caught breaking into Democratic headquarters at the Watergate.[/quote] [url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/nixon-and-the-media-109773?o=4]via Politico[/url]
Things like this are why I want to be a journalist now more than anything else. Journalists and reporters are the people who should be pushing back against all this bullshit, and that's something I'd gladly help to do.
[QUOTE=Shirt.;51611999]Most presidents did.[/QUOTE] But he doesn't respect them, which I think is the key difference between him and them.
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