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
“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?
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.
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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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.
Develop as sources....that means either bribe or blackmail.
How about just REPORTING it? We don't need you to interpret it! You report, we decide.
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