The White House’s New Press Strategy Has Reporters Furious

[ABX]

Forgive me if this hasn't already been asked, but other than to 'tweak' the press, what good does this do for the administration?  It seems with all the complaints about 'fake news' they would want as complete of a record as possible to fall back on. Sure, video can be edited, but now this is going to be more of a 'he said/she said' game as a reporter's written account is more prone to include editorializing and mistakes versus an on the record video of the event.

Other than power games, this move does not help the White House.

I know.. I know.. Quantum Chess...

[txradioguy]

Wait....what???   Obama treated his rabid left media worse?  When?  How?   The idiot left media literally slavered (tingled up their legs) over Obama.  What are you referring to here?

@XenaLee

I guess you did miss it.

USA Today’s Susan Page: Obama administration most ‘dangerous’ to media in history

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/10/27/usa-todays-susan-page-obama-administration-most-dangerous-to-media-in-history/

There are numerous times they were barred from events were at the very least pool reporters and videographers should have been granted access and merely handed press releases and WH approved photos instead.

Even James Rosen of Fox News said as much:

http://James Rosen: Obama Treated Media Worse Than Trump

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/02/22/fox-correspondent-obama-worse-than-trump/


And lets not forget the time the Veep's staff forced a reporter into a closet.

Vice President's aide apologises to journalist locked in a closet for hours during fundraiser

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370371/Vice-President-Joe-Bidens-staff-lock-journalist-closet-stop-talking-guests.html


Those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.

There were complaints by photographers and reporters about how they were denied access to events that in the past had been open to the public.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article24759376.html

[Night Hides Not]

Wait....what???   Obama treated his rabid left media badly?  When?  How?   The idiot left media literally slavered (tingled up their legs) over Obama.  What are you referring to here?

The love went in one direction to Obama, and he treated the slavering liberal media as he did with the women he was intimately involved with. You know, the unrequited love thing, because Obama is the classic narcissist.

[XenaLee]

@XenaLee

I guess you did miss it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/10/27/usa-todays-susan-page-obama-administration-most-dangerous-to-media-in-history/

There are numerous times they were barred from events were at the very least pool reporters and videographers should have been granted access and merely handed press releases and WH approved photos instead.

Even James Rosen of Fox News said as much:

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/02/22/fox-correspondent-obama-worse-than-trump/


And lets not forget the time the Veep's staff forced a reporter into a closet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370371/Vice-President-Joe-Bidens-staff-lock-journalist-closet-stop-talking-guests.html


Those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.

There were complaints by photographers and reporters about how they were denied access to events that in the past had been open to the public.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article24759376.html

That's weird... cause I suffered through eight loooong years of press briefings, Obama speeches and "events" rife with idiot left slobbering celebrities and never saw any such "bad treatment" by Obama.  He was their god, their savior, their un-American Idol!   But yeah... I could understand him treating them with disdain.  The arrogant POS did, after all, hate (all) Americans.   ^-^

[Victoria33]

I haven't missed anything.  Only difference between us is that I don't watch what happens with regards tot he media with rose colored glasses and/or blinders. The media as pro Dem as they are didn't like the shabby treatment the received from Obama and made their displeasure known.
Trump is in danger of treating them worse than Obama.  And neither one was right in treating the media...that at some point Trump will need...this poorly.  And no matter how much pom pom waivers like yourself think treating the media like crap is a good thing...at the end of the day it's a very poor strategy that will blow up in the Administration's face worse than it already is.

@txradioguy

Remember when Comey was at the back of the room by the blue drapes?  Trump called him up and while Comey was walking toward him, Trump said, "This guy is more popular than I am."  Then, he fired Comey.  In the past few days, Trump said something like this, "Kushner is getting more press than I am."  Kushner will be shut down one way or another.  He said not long ago that he should be the one doing the press conferences because he was the only one who knew how to do it right.  When he says something, take notice because it means what he is thinking.  Since he said that, he has shut them down by preventing people from seeing them.  He wants people to see only him on TV, not them.

Remember when he had his company and would call The New York Times using a fake name to tell them what Trump was doing so it would be in the newspaper.  He had to keep his name in the newspaper constantly.  This man is not right in the head and never will be.  Don't expect normal behavior from someone who is not normal because that person is not normal.

[txradioguy]

That's weird... cause I suffered through eight loooong years of press briefings, Obama speeches and "events" rife with idiot left slobbering celebrities and never saw any such "bad treatment" by Obama.  He was their god, their savior, their un-American Idol!   But yeah... I could understand him treating them with disdain.  The arrogant POS did, after all, hate (all) Americans.   ^-^

He treated anyone whom he didn't view as an equal or peer with disdain.  To include the media.

They kissed his backside...he smacked them in the mouth and they said thank you.

That's why I'm saying this isn't a road that Trump needs to go down.

[txradioguy]

@txradioguy

Remember when Comey was at the back of the room by the blue drapes?  Trump called him up and while Comey was talking toward him, Trump said, "This guy is more popular than I am."  Then, he fired Comey.  In the past few days, Trump said something like this, "Kushner is getting more press than I am."  Kushner will be shut down one way or another.  He said not long ago that he should be the one doing the press conferences because he was the only one who knew how to do it right.  When he says something, take notice because it means what he is thinking.  Since he said that, he has shut them down by preventing people from seeing them.  He wants people to see only him on TV, not them.

Remember when he had his company and would call The New York Times using a fake name to tell them what Trump was doing so it would be in the newspaper.  He had to keep his name in the newspaper constantly.  This man is not right in the head and never will be.  Don't expect normal behavior from someone who is not normal because that person is not normal.

@Victoria33 yup I remember all of that quite well.

He HAS to be the center of attention no matter what.

[XenaLee]

He treated anyone whom he didn't view as an equal or peer with disdain.  To include the media.

They kissed his backside...he smacked them in the mouth and they said thank you.

That's why I'm saying this isn't a road that Trump needs to go down.

I disagree.  I think Trump should smack them down every chance he gets.  It will get plenty of attention in the media and folks might start recognizing just how biased the media in this country has become.  Drawing attention to the problem can't hurt, IOW.  We already know how things will "go back to" if/when the demoncrats get back into power.  Nothing Trump does or does not do now will ever change that fact or reality.  Trump should go for it. 

[XenaLee]

@Victoria33 yup I remember all of that quite well.

He HAS to be the center of attention no matter what.

Well then.... judging by every single day's MSN home page (4-5 articles on Trump did this, Trump said that, Trump didn't say or do something, etc.)....

Trump must be in Trump-heaven these days. 

[DCPatriot]

Are you sure the discussion is my ppst, @DCPatriot. The thread traces back to @Victoria33 .

OMG!   I apologize. @Suppressed

Saw that she pinged you in that "quote" and subconsciously attributed it to you.

[DCPatriot]

Crap in one hand demand in the other and see which fills up first.

Your attempt to come in and rescue your fellow sycophant is noble if not futile.  You're trying to distract from RiV answering the question first.

Not gonna work.

Trumps brazen and overt attacks on the media both as a candidate and as President are legion on both video audio and social media.

The threads about them reside in the very archives of this forum.

But then you already knew that.

Go light your flaming strawman and fish for red herrings somewhere else

    Just as I suspected.   You have nothing, as usual.

[Victoria33]

@txradioguy
On a side note, this attitude that some have that the democrats did bad things so we can too is not winning, its surrender.

@Cripplecreek

You are soooo correct.  I hear/read that all the time on this forum and on the news.  Individual posters and people on the news, (especially Fox News), when something Trump did is the subject, deflect to try to change the subject:  "But Hillary did 'x'..."    But Obama did 'x'....", "But Bill Clinton did 'x'"....  If one took those words away from Hannity, he could not speak.  Hillary, Obama, B. Clinton, are not the president - what they did is of no consequence when Trump's behavior is the subject.  People are beating a dead horse to try to provide cover for Trump's abnormal behavior. 

[ABX]

Well then.... judging by every single day's MSN home page (4-5 articles on Trump did this, Trump said that, Trump didn't say or do something, etc.)....

Trump must be in Trump-heaven these days.

He must be. Read "The Art of the comeback". He dedicates almost an entire chapter to the concept 'there is no such thing as bad publicity' (also a major concept in The Art of the Deal) and that it doesn't' matter what the headlines say, as long as you are in the headlines.

[Night Hides Not]

@Cripplecreek

You are soooo correct.  I hear/read that all the time on this forum and on the news.  Individual posters and people on the news, (especially Fox News), when something Trump did is the subject, deflect to try to change the subject:  "But Hillary did 'x'..."    But Obama did 'x'....", "But Bill Clinton did 'x'"....  If one took those words away from Hannity, he could not speak.  Hillary, Obama, B. Clinton, are not the president - what they did is of no consequence when Trump's behavior is the subject.  People are beating a dead horse to try to provide cover for Trump's abnormal behavior.

"Abnormal behavior"? More like "aberrant behavior". He beat Hillary, so it's all forgiven. Just ask Mark Davis and the rest of the lineup at Salem Radio.

[Victoria33]

"Abnormal behavior"? More like "aberrant behavior".

@Night Hides Not

"aberrant behavior" is good, too.

Definition of "aberrant":
departing from an accepted standard.
synonyms: deviant · deviating · divergent · abnormal · atypical · anomalous · irregular · nonconformist · rogue · strange · odd · peculiar · uncommon · freakish · quirky · twisted 

[rodamala]

OMG!   I apologize. @Suppressed

Saw that she pinged you in that "quote" and subconsciously attributed it to you.

Just do me a favor and don't ever ping me to your nonsense.  Thanks in advance.

[Victoria33]

He must be. Read "The Art of the comeback". He dedicates almost an entire chapter to the concept 'there is no such thing as bad publicity' (also a major concept in The Art of the Deal) and that it doesn't' matter what the headlines say, as long as you are in the headlines.

@AbaraXas

Yes, I have read that in his book before; he means it and has done it all his adult life - kept his name in the news, whether it was good or bad.  That is exactly what he does now - uses his tweets to cause chaos so he stays in the news every single day.  He did it in his campaign - kept creating chaos every day to stay in the news every day.  Other candidates were normal in their statements and that didn't get reported most of the time - it was Trump's outrageous tweets and bombastic rallies, attacking the other candidates and media, in the news every single day. 

[anubias]

Good on Trump for showing the media that they should be news reporters not news makers.  They themselves are no longer THE news other than their whining like babies. 

There are many there and here that could use a sound bare-assed over-the-knee spanking.

[edpc]

Thomas Jefferson still declared a free press to be better than the alternative. He said that the only regulation of the press should come from an informed and discerning public, not from government.

Yes, but some historical context was in order.  In his time, the literacy rate in the country was between 50-60% and most states only allowed white, male, property owners voting rights.

[Right_in_Virginia]

@Victoria33 yup I remember all of that quite well.

He HAS to be the center of attention no matter what.

IMO ... this is still nonsense. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

You have anything to support that theory?

It does get tiresome, doesn't it @DCPatriot   

[XenaLee]

He must be. Read "The Art of the comeback". He dedicates almost an entire chapter to the concept 'there is no such thing as bad publicity' (also a major concept in The Art of the Deal) and that it doesn't' matter what the headlines say, as long as you are in the headlines.

That's show-biz!   Always leave them wanting more is yet another SB meme I suspect we'll be experiencing.....lol.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Good on Trump for showing the media that they should be news reporters not news makers.  They themselves are no longer THE news other than their whining like babies. 

There are many there and here that could use a sound bare-assed over-the-knee spanking.

 :thumbsup3:  @anubias

[txradioguy]

It does get tiresome, doesn't it @DCPatriot   

Yes your unabashed love for everything Trump and your constant belief that he can never EVER do anything wrong grew tiresome quite awhile back.

Now...do you care to finally show where @Victoria33 was wrong in what she said?

Or are you just going to duck dodge and delay as normal?

[XenaLee]

Good on Trump for showing the media that they should be news reporters not news makers.  They themselves are no longer THE news other than their whining like babies. 

I agree.

There are many there and here that could use a sound bare-assed over-the-knee spanking.

Hey now.... I got plenty of that kind of "attention" while growing up.   I deserved it, too.    ^-^