Posted on 02/27/2019 10:52:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
HANOI - The White House barred reporters from Reuters, the Associated Press and Bloomberg from covering a dinner between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday after two of them asked Trump questions during his initial interactions with Kim.
The three wire services are part of the White House press pool that covers U.S. presidents wherever they go.
Reporters in the pool regularly shout out questions to leaders and on Wednesday they asked Trump about the summit and the testimony in Congress of his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, in two separate opportunities known as “pool sprays.”
The reporters were later excluded from covering the dinner because of what White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said were “sensitivities over shouted questions in the previous sprays,” the Washington Post reported.
The pool was present when Trump and Kim first met and shook hands. During that short initial meeting, while cameras were rolling, Reuters correspondent Jeff Mason asked Trump what he wanted to achieve at the summit and whether he had backed away from his demand for North Korea’s denuclearization.
Trump replied “No” to the second question and gave a longer answer to the first.
AP reporter Jonathan Lemire then asked Trump if he expected to end the Korean War. Trump said: “We’ll see.”
Reporters were then escorted out of the room. Shortly thereafter they were brought back in to listen while Trump and Kim, seated this time, visited.
At the conclusion of that “pool spray,” the AP’s Lemire asked Trump if he had a reaction to Cohen’s testimony due to take place later on Wednesday. With excerpts from Cohen’s prepared remarks having already been made public, Trump scowled and shook his head.
Cohen accused Trump of being a racist, a conman and a cheat.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
They were there to cover the meeting between Trump and Un. But all they wanted to do was attack Trump about something completely unrelated to it. The corporate press in this country seems to think their 1st amendment rights are allowed to trample on everyone else’s rights.
And if they can make Trump look weak and under attack at home right in front of Kim, how does that affect the summit. What mental frame of mind would you adopt at that point of you were Kim?
If you were aggressive, you would get more aggressive. If you did want a deal and a way out, you would think that a deal with Trump would be worthless because his own nation doesn’t stand with him.
This is really evil. And they know exactly what they are doing.
All those cameras today are digital and do not have mechanical shutters. The sound is created artificially electronically. It is an option found on most cameras.
They would never do this to another president.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
They did it before too.
Trump is trying to focus on the summit. He’s not exactly media or camera shy.
And if the summit doesn’t produce some monumental thing because Un backed away seeing the press make Trump look undermined they will call it a Trump failure and not take any ownership in their part influencing events and creating the news they want... failed Trimp, failed America
It was a photo op. Treat it as such
Awww-poor reporters couldn’t disrupt their meal-how terrible!
I think it was a great opportunity for President Trump to demonstrate he is in charge. Which he did.
yeah...it took 2 “reporters” to write this story? bad
Thanks for the info on the manufactured shutter sound. It’s irritating as hell.
They don’t have 1st Amendment rights in Viet Nam.
Off subject.. get out. You are not here to do the dems’ bidding!
President Trump has learned a lot of how to handle the press, he is a mistro at it now.
Most still have mechanical shutters. The digital part is the recording of images to data cards rather than film.
Electronic shutters are just starting to come out replacing mechanical ones, but will be a few more years before widespread.
plus our media isn’t directly funded by the government
It isn’t? ( see: Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, CIA)
“All those cameras today are digital and do not have mechanical shutters.”
Not completely true;
http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/why-digital-cameras-have-mechanical-shutters.html
“All those cameras today are digital and do not have mechanical shutters.”
In addition to info already posted, some are also louder than others. I Have a Pentax K30, quieter than my previous Pentax K-x entry level camera, and I’ve seen a couple of comparable quality Nikon and Canon cameras that have mechanical shutters, bu are almost silent.
From comments made by others at the Pentax Forums, some of the other Pentax models, like the K50, they are getting the shutter noise a lot quieter in more recent cameras.
Then you have point and shoot cameras. Most have shutters that are almost silent, but feature an electronic shutter sound you can use. I keep mine turned off.
Very rare though, to see a professional news photographer with anything but a high end DSLR camera. I haven’t been able to find out but it seems most are using Canon and Nikon, and many should have fairly quiet shutters. I know of two things that can be creating the shutter noise I hear in many press situations.
1) They can have the shutter sound turned on because they think it’s cool to have that clicking noise, even though the cameras they use are fairly quiet.
2) I’m a musician, I’ve used microphones for 40 years. The newer condenser type microphones are capable of picking up every little sound. For example, I’ve recorded acoustic guitar with the condenser mic placed 3 feet away. With older cardoid type mics, the guitar needs to be within 6 inches or less.
Also, many sound systems use a compressor in addition to reverb, delay and so forth. The compressor is an effect that basically equalizes the volume level of everything in the recording. I used one with guitar for a while, so no matter how hard or soft I picked the notes, they all came out the same approximate volume level. Quite handy when finger picking or during leads. Most guitar compressor boxes also work to increase sustain.
Using a compressor means a person who speaks softly will be heard as readily as a person with a much louder voice. This also picks up more distant and less distinct sounds as well. With many modern video cameras, it’s very likely a compressor is built in. With consumer level units I’m fairly sure it is.
I can notice this in videos I take with my “bridge”camera. That’s the type that is also known as a super zoom, it looks more like a DSLR, but is much closer to a point and shoot. When I try to get a video of the hummingbirds outside my kitchen window, I have to mute the TV. Although I can barely hear it at all in the kitchen, it is still loud and clear on the video. I had to trash several hummingbird videos because some TV show was in the background. Outside, it can pick up birds chirping I can barely hear while standing there, but it’s quite clear in the video. If you’ve ever heard a Carolina Chickadee, it’s a fairly quiet bird. Bu tit comes out loud and clear in the videos I take with my point and shoot camera, or the K30.
This might be the reason the camera clicks are so prominent in press events. I know the cameras themselves are not that loud, even my K30 wouldn’t come out that loud. If the recording is done with a combination of condenser mics and software that includes a compressor, it will pick up the camera click and try to equalize the volume level. I’ve heard it when I made a video with a point and shoot, and took pictures with the K30 few feet away. The camera shutter comes out really loud. It’s not that loud in real time...
So that might be what we’re hearing. I’ve noticed it several times in press events and being a photographer, I know the cameras are not that loud.
Sorry guys, I meant to direct the previous post to you and forgot who ELSE I was replying to...
What? Nothing for the "men" reporters?
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