Posted on 12/31/2017 10:08:50 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
The hostility with which President Trump and the news media regard each other has only intensified during his first year in the White House, even as the president engaged in an unprecedented level of interaction with reporters.
Mr. Trump allowed pool sprays and other events that usually would be relegated to photo ops to become impromptu press conferences. He responded to more than 500 questions from reporters during these encounters, according to a tally by The Washington Times.
His walks across the South Lawn to and from Marine One routinely become question-and-answer sessions with reporters along the rope line. He has taken questions there on 13 occasions, responding to 42 questions during a single session in October.
By comparison, President Obama took questions twice when leaving or arriving on the Marine helicopter, and both times there was a podium placed there for the event, according to meticulous lists kept by Mark Knoller, White House correspondent for CBS News.
During two days of golfing in August at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Mr. Trump took at least 50 questions from reporters at various spots around the club.
However, all this access to the president has not made the interaction between the White House and the press corps less combative. To the contrary, the news media has become more aggressive and accusatory in its coverage, while the president and his staff regard reporters with open disdain.
American University professor Patricia Sykes, a scholar of the presidency and comparative executive leadership, said the frequent interaction with reporters constitutes more access to Mr. Trump personally but not greater access to the information that reporters want and need.
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Thanks for nothing, Disney, Comcast.
The sheep who follow libtardism are the greatest threat. The stupids vote for it all and fuel it with money.
Between the tax cut and cutting excessive regulation, DJT may beat the media with P-R-O-S-P-E-R-I-T-Y.
Getting there by 2018, for the mid-terms may be a stretch, but a strong economy in 2020 and people will vote their bank accounts.
Has anyone done a state-by-state analysis of economic prospects for 2018 in states with vulnerable RAT Senators?
The FAKE alphabet media has been exposed in raw form and who’s responsible for that ?? Trump alone , single handedly did this by himself and I call that ,, WINNING , WINNING , WINNING !!!
This hostility has no choice but to intensify if the left is to be fought and beaten back. If we just want to get along, like many lefties whine, then we must submit to the leftist ways and allow our country to continue sliding into the sewer.
We have a huge 5th column - the MSM, our education system, Hollywood and much of our own federal bureaucracy.
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