Posted on 03/21/2016 7:00:57 AM PDT by 20yearsofinternet
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Jeb Bush rallies were not like this. Covering a Jeb event meant freely mingling with 40 people sitting calmly on folding chairs. Covering a Trump event is like watching a 1970s Black Flag concert from inside a shark cage.
I followed the circus from Chicago to Cleveland and then down to Florida for a series of rallies, hanging out with Trump’s press pack along the way to find out. When they weren’t busy darting from one skirmish to the next, several Trump reporters (who spoke anonymously because they were not willing or permitted by their news organizations to go on the record) described their experiences out on the trail.
The first thing they all said about Trump’s press operation was that “there is no Trump press operation.” There’s just Hope Hicks, a twentysomething former Ralph Lauren model who’s never previously worked in politics. She functions more like a celebrity PR shop than a political communications team. And she remains a remote figure. On other campaigns, the press operatives develop chummy relationships with the press corps. “There’s no collegiality,” said one reporter. “No one’s getting dinner with Hope.”
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Where other candidates might have a dozen aides a journalist can develop as sources, along with donors and pollsters and ad-makers who’ll leak inside scoop, with Trump there’s none of that. Maybe you get some state-level operatives on the phone, but it doesn’t matter because they never know anything. “You don’t get sourced up like you normally would,” one reporter told me. “It all happens on the surface. You just try to interpret it.”
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However, while it is written primarily to enrage other leftists, I find it an uplifting chronicle hinting that maybe the battle for the soul of America might still be won. FINALLY, someone is standing up to the press, denying them the special favors, game-playing, and other "insider" garbage they are used to, and they are furious about it.
I think one of my favorite parts of this article is the bemoaning of one of the guys getting arrested in Chicago at the canceled event, as if Trump somehow commands the Chicago PD.
Anyway, I doubt the author intended for this piece to be uplifting to anyone, let alone Trump supporters, but I enjoyed reading it and thought others might as well.
Yo! Seth Stevenson!
Is your “nome-de-plumme” Dimassimo?
This is the ultimate description of grass roots.
:: several Trump reporters (who spoke anonymously because they were not willing or permitted by their news organizations to go on the record) described their experiences out on the trail. ::
So, Seth is admitting that he made ALL THIS schmidt up?
C’mon people!
What press-wonk interviews other press-wonks for their interpretation of the issue?
Stevenson is either lazy or stupid...maybe both?
Why would anyone want to be collegial or cooperative with a press corps out to denigrate and destroy him?
The voters are restless.
Placemark
““You don’t get sourced up like you normally would,” one reporter told me. “It all happens on the surface. You just try to interpret it.””
Sooo, allow me to INTERPRET a bit, LOL. This here says that Trump is too smart to have a bunch of useless “staff” that these press clowns schmooze up to in order to collect damaging information which usually turns out to be nothing more than some operative put in place to position themselves expressly to be butthurt.
In other words, what you see is what there is! It CAN’T be manipulated and INTERPRETED. Bwahahahahahaha!
“Covering a Jeb event meant freely mingling with 40 people sitting calmly on folding chairs. Covering a Trump event is like watching a 1970s Black Flag concert from inside a shark cage.”
I love this and I don’t even know what a Black Flag concert would be like. LOL
It sounds like this guy has an annual pass to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. It’s a museum dedicated to those heroic “journalists” who live their lives to save the world.
It’s basically a self-admiration society.
I did not read the entire article article. I can only stand so much in the mornings. But what I did read says to me that, Seth Stevenson like most of the press, both left and honest are still bemoaning the fact the Trump campaign is not fully staffed with “Professional Political Operatives” but outsiders.
Oh the horror
Instead of whining about how reporters are treated at Trump rallies, maybe, just maybe this writer should ask the question of why the press is hated by a large section of the American public?
Black Flag was a punk rock band, at their concerts the fans would form “mosh pits” where they would drunkenly dance around in a circle banging into each other.
Funny article! Boo hoo, Trump isn’t doing it right. He isn’t paying a huge entourage to babysit and coddle reporters, yet Trump continues to do well.
Trump calling reporters disgusting (only half joking at his press conference in Florida) was one of the best lines in recent political history. Even the reporters couldn’t resist chuckling.
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This guy is just mad he didn’t get a red-carpet gift bag from Trump, like all the other candidates hand out to the press corp.
I never attended a Black Flag show but certainly many other punk rock shows in the 70s and 80s and they were loads of fun. A little ringing in the ears but I can still hear fairly well.
Yup, when I got to be around 14 or 15, my friends and I started going to all-ages punk shows and it was a great way to blow off some of that early teenage angst!
The reporters need to get on the Wambulance. I think it is hilarious they don’t get to ride on his plane. Make them fly commercial to keep up with him.
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