Posted on 10/31/2014 3:42:42 AM PDT by iowamark
The media’s sense of entitlement is really something to behold whenever they feel like they aren’t getting their due. The most recent example of this phenomenon has been the media’s reaction to Joni Ernst’s decision to skip meetings with three editorial board meetings, including one with the Des Moines Register, last week. The media, predictably, is up in arms over the gall of Ernst in skipping their gatekeeping function, leading the media to declare that Ernst is unfit for office. Predictably, Ernst has responded that she sees no value added in wasting her time kowtowing to people who aren’t going to endorse her anyway.
In an ideal world, candidates would fairly pay a dear price for dodging the media and would accept responsibility if they got tripped up. But an ideal world assumes a world in which the media operates with equivalent good faith towards Republicans and Democrats. This is not an accurate description of the world we live in. I’ve yet to see a systematic analysis of editorial board endorsements (for primary newspapers) across America but they tilt so overwhelmingly Democratic that when one endorses a Republican, as the Denver Post did for Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) a couple weeks ago, it is a major news event that provokes outrage and howling from entitled Democrats.
So in the real world as opposed to the ideal one, Republicans would not offer the media an opportunity to trip them up while attempting to garner an endorsement they’re almost certain not to get. In terms of cost-benefit analysis, the decision to not open yourself up to questions from most newspaper editorial boards is a no-brainer for Republicans. And if these newspapers want Republicans to come and kowtow before them and possibly give them a juicy attack soundbite, they should perhaps let their endorsement record more closely resemble the voting patterns of the American public at large or at least their reading constituency, rather than the comments section at DailyKos.
Republicans shouldn’t skip meetings with the editorial boards of fair newspapers, if any existed. But they should definitely skip open question sessions with propaganda outlets for their opponents. Not only do I not criticize Joni Ernst for skipping this meeting, I hope it starts a trend.
The cheerleaders don’t really win football games.
video clip of Joni Ernst at:
Gary Hart attack letter in Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/the-worst-newspaper-polit_b_5985734.html
Who here actually reads a newspaper anymore?
I take a small town county newspaper mainly for local news and notices, but I haven’t even gotten a Sunday Paper in near 20 years. In contrast, anything that I’ve seen or heard where the AJC endorses a measure or person, that has been the death knell on it for me. No way no how.
Poor Joni is at the mercy of hard-driving Dummycrats' vote fraud machine----b/c when Braley loses, the long knives will be out for lamebrain Michelle Obama.
The Princeton grad can't even read. Surrounded by Braley campaign posters at an Iowa campaign rally, she kept calling him "Bailey."
Now that she "likes" her country and has a bit of self-esteem, ensconced in the WH at the rate of $1.5 billion per year----plus her endless posh vacays----Obama wont allow her royal self to be tarnished.
Iowa vote fraud is on bigtime.
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JONI'S FIGHTING BACK Joni and the RNC filed open records requests with five Iowa counties, seeking materials that include training manuals, satellite voting locations, names of precinct ballot counters, recount procedures and any communications sent to her opponent.
Cong Bruce Braley--significantly--has not made a similar request.
What if an editorial board prepared an ambush and nobody came?
The same approach should be applied to debates and Sunday shows. If it is moderated by known democRAT hacks, then don’t do it.
Let’s put it into this prospective. A Town of 75,000 residents. Local newspaper is lucky if 15,000 of the resident subscribes and reads the paper. Of that, there might be 300 residents who care what the editorial board of a newspaper says about some candidate or their question-and-answer episode.
Move that up to a state with four million, and you might be talking about 2,000 voters statewide who care what the newspaper says.
Newspapers are marginal players in politics now.
True. Yet their reporters, reporterettes and editors bristle with raised hackles when you call them ‘irrelevant’
And letting press titters moderate debates is another myth that needs to die.
Only The Wall Street Journal, and I know I'm a bit of a dinosaur by actually walking down the driveway every morning, getting the paper, and laying it out on the kitchen counter. As for the local rag, it's been almost a decade since I gave up on that, something I should have done long before.
I agree with you on the debates, because those are contrived situations that need not occur. Sunday shows, however, give conservatives a chance to attack in the teeth of the opposition.
Consider how Sen. Cruz has held his own on such shows; it can be done, and when it is, the conservatives are made stronger in their willingness to engage the opposition, the liberals are made either more depressed or angrier--both of which weaken their position, and the viewing public hears the conservative POV, not the liberal distortion of the conservative POV.
Why sit down with people who are just going to disagree with you but who have already smeared you and who are looking for another chance to smear you.
The very act of sitting down with them gives the public impression that you agree with their neutrality and their ability to offer scholarly analysis.
It’s insane to give that kind of leverage to a known enemy. She should let the people know that.
The Republican establishment can learn from that. I suspect Ernst would be smart enough to reject debates moderated by ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN,ETC. It’s the same thing.
So ‘fitness’ for office is to be decided by a panel of media experts in Iowa?
Sounds like the same concept the communist Chinese want to use in Hong Kong.
Bump
Go Joni Go!
But is there a peep about Bruce B(r)aley’s failure to go on WHO radio? Simon Conway has an open invitation for an interview on WHO and Bruce won’t show. Why is a talk show on the biggest radio station in the state any different than the biggest newspaper in the state? Goose meet gander.
Gary Hart talking about his “wife’s” decisions
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
For the latter, to exactly what end?
I hadn’t heard about this but I’m not surprised no Iowa newspaper has picked up on it.
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