Posted on 03/03/2016 10:58:25 PM PST by Citizen Zed
The New York Times leaked off-the-record conversation with Donald Trump in January recently to Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed’s editor in chief Ben Smith wrote this week that Mr. Trump reportedly told the NY Times that his extreme position on deporting immigrants was fluid and developing.
Senator Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio lashed out at Trump and immediately demanded that Donald Trump order the release of the off-the-record conversation.
On Thursday the Times reported that there’s nothing in the Trump tapes. Sorry Ted. The Washington Examiner reported:
New York Times opinion page editor Andrew Rosenthal insisted Wednesday that his newspaper is not covering up a big story by refusing to release an off-the-record portion of its interview with Donald Trump.
In a Wednesday blog post, Rosenthal told Times public editor Margaret Sullivan that portions of the meeting were meant to be “off the record. But he acknowledged that a recording of the board’s talk with Trump was shared with other reporters at the Times, which may have resulted in some details being leaked to the public that were intended to be kept private.
He said, however, that the Times is not covering up any information related to the presidential campaign that would be crucial to the public’s knowledge.
“These [editorial board] sessions are not about news gathering for stories,” Rosenthal said.
HUGE NEWS: NYTimes says there is NOTHING IMPORTANT in the Trump Tapes!https://t.co/LCWW5toOeY
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) March 4, 2016
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Cruz, demanding like a prosecutor, that Trump ‘release the tape’ to ‘prove his innocence’, was, in essence, demanding that the long-respected press-source privacy be violated - a principle that many reporters have sat in jail defending.
is he going to act this way with Putin? cause he’s going to get us roasted if he does
and why isn’t Cruz attacking Rubio? that’s his competition right now. Is the lawyer creed getting in the way?
Normally when the NYT says something most conservatives assume they mean the exact opposite.
!!!
What did Trump do?
He made a deal. He’s a deal maker ya know.
Deals are his specialty.
He probably bought a yearly subscription to the NYTimes for everyone in his family.
Yes dirty trick.
In the next debate will they show the entire Ted Cruz booger video and then ask Ted, “Senator Cruz, what exactly was that booger on your lip? Why didn’t you notice it was there for so long and why on earth did you swallow it?
“Without them being released, we really will never know.”
Nor should we! OFF THE RECORD, hello?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter%27s_privilege
We need the $5000-an-hour blonde airhead Megyn Kelly to read this article on "Reporter's Privilege", and write us a short essay of 50-100 words on how the New York Times just shot EVERY reporter in the country in the @ss...
I couldn't BELIEVE our luck when that dumb airhead Megyn Kelly started in on the NY Times tapes...
Trump forced the Super Star Destroyer to crash into the side of the Media DeathStar. :)
“How could everybody get it so wrong?”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/wesley-pruden-how-could-everybody-get-it-so-wrong-/
Thank you so much! I love these kinds of pieces, and never seem to find them myself.
Glad you liked it...
:)
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