Posted on 03/07/2017 12:48:21 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter
Erik Wemple frets that the journalists tasked with covering Donald Trump’s White House are growing weary thanks to the “unsustainable” pace the president is setting — with long days, “ruined weekends,” and “unpredictable” moves.
From the Washington Post:
President Trump has attempted to undercut the U.S. media in a number of ways — by calling them the “enemy”; by denying coverage credentials to certain outlets during his campaign; by telling falsehoods and lying; by siccing his aides on reporters. As we close in on two months of the Trump White House, however, another strategy may be emerging: Outlast the media.
April D. Ryan, White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, tells this blog that “this pace of covering this new president is unsustainable for the long haul.” That comment came amid a news-filled weekend that wasn’t supposed to be that way. According to a White House official quoted in The Post, Saturday was supposed to be a “down day, pretty quiet.” Someone forgot to tell Trump, who unleashed his now-famous string of tweets alleging involvement by former president Barack Obama in a Trump Tower wiretapping expedition.
All of a sudden, a down day for White House aides as well as for journalists became a tangle of tweets and phone calls and URLs. And this was a Saturday — a day when journalists could once unplug with minimal risk of missing a big story. “Nothing happens on Saturday,” wrote former Bloomberg staffer Dawn Kopecki in a widely read memo to colleagues. “We have very little readership and we’re often paying editors to kill time by surfing the Web.” That was 2015.
Read the rest of the story here.
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That was the final implosion of a political career, in just a few seconds....
They covered a part time president with short weeks and short days for 8 years.
They are used to 1 or 2 hour days of kissing Obama’s and Moochie’s arses then printing White House handouts as news.
Now they have to cover the Energizer President 24/7, defend their lies and actually write their own news reports.
Right now, while the media is huffing and puffing over the Russians and Trump counter-tweets, would be a good time for Trump to order every cabinet sec to make maximum change with immediate urgency.
Lay off staff in whole buildings. Then sell the buildings. Slash budgets. Sell properties. Initiate hundreds of pages of policy change. Eliminate books full of regulations. Sell off all of the guns, armor and ammo that the alphabet agencies bought in the last 8 years. Create worker performance evaluations.
Make the libs in media and congress have to stay awake 24/7 to keep up.
I was thinking about this today. Trump should shift gears so often the Dems don’t have time to form a defense before he has moved on to the next issue.
Ditto
Tom Hanks just gifted these guys with a big, new, expensive Espresso machine. Just a reminder of who’s on their side.
THEN GET THE HELL OUT OF JOURNALISM!
Great point!
Except that it took the USSR 10 years to fall after Reagan took after them.
DJT's been in office less than 10 weeks, and look where the fake-news MSM is!
Guaranteed, the pace of news WILL be maintained.
“I was thinking about this today. Trump should shift gears so often the Dems don’t have time to form a defense before he has moved on to the next issue.”
Trump pulled that off masterfully a few days ago when the narrative changed from Russia/Election to Obama/Wiretapping.
“This is the best president we’ve ever had.”
Agreed.
If the White House reporters focused less on “gotcha” storylines and more on factual stories, they wouldn’t find the job nearly so exhausting.
It takes a lot more effort to make up sh!t to fit the bogus narrative than it does to cover what President and members of his Administration actually do and say, and what all that truthfully means.
They were planning on covering Low Energy Jeb Bush. Bummer!
“President Trump won’t stand still and let us hit him! Whaa, whaaa! Make him stop!”
Gaijin, I’m with ya!! I say that several times a day!
Worse thing is, my own writing is suffering. So is recreational reading. Too much happening and it all unfolds like a Clancy thriller.
zer0 thought the lifestyle of the powerful was all parties, vacations and golf, interspersed with giving a few orders before appearing on TV to have his ass kissed.
He may be *running* a shadow government, but I bet he’s still not working.
Sean Spicer: Don’t Make Me Make This Podium Move
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/sean-spicer-jokes-about-melissa-mccarthy-snl-impersonation-895112259934
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