Posted on 01/10/2023 4:01:12 PM PST by 6thavenue
Assigned to cover the re-election campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Miles Cohen, a young ABC News reporter, found himself stymied. The governor would not grant him an interview. Aides barred him from some campaign events and interrupted his conversations with supporters.
When Mr. Cohen was finally able to ask a question about the governor’s handling of Hurricane Ian, Mr. DeSantis shouted him down — “Stop, stop, stop” — and scolded the media for “trying to cast aspersions.” The DeSantis campaign then taunted Mr. Cohen on Twitter, prompting a torrent of online vitriol.
So on election night, Mr. Cohen decamped to a friendlier environment for the news media: Mar-a-Lago, where former President Donald J. Trump greeted reporters by name. “He came up to us, asked how the sandwiches were and took 20 questions,” Mr. Cohen recalled.
Mr. Trump, who heckled the “fake news” in his speech that evening, elevated media-bashing into a high art for Republicans. But ahead of the next presidential race, potential candidates like Mr. DeSantis are taking a more radical approach: not just attacking nonpartisan news outlets, but ignoring them altogether.
Although he courted right-wing podcasters and conservative Fox News hosts, Mr. DeSantis did not grant an extensive interview to a national nonpartisan news organization during his 2022 re-election bid — and he coasted to victory, with Rupert Murdoch’s media empire now promoting him as a 2024 contender.
His success is an ominous sign for the usual rules of engagement between politicians and the press as another nationwide election looms. Presidential candidates typically endure media scrutiny in exchange for the megaphone and influence of mainstream outlets. But in an intensely partisan, choose-your-own-news era, the traditional calculus may have shifted.
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Worx for Biden!
The inept, corrupt bimbo gov of Az avoided the press, so what’s the big deal?
(Of course, we know why.)
He sat down and let himself be interviewed by Woodward. He had to know that Woodward would write a hit piece.
DeSantis is a very smart man.
This is a reminder of how the press treated Trump.
Oddly it was a video made to make Trump look bad but now the Russian collusion is known as a hoax we see how in error the ores was
Desantis remembers this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_49WRthKk0
What a joke. The national MSM news is hyperpartisan. Besides, the left avoids Fox like the plague and tries to get anything on the right shut down. Let's see how this guy would react if instead of avoiding him, DeSantis was trying to get him deplatformed from Twitter.
Let’s see how this guy would react if instead of avoiding him, DeSantis was trying to get him deplatformed from Twitter.
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Excellent point.
I hope DeSantis sticks to his guns. They’re trying to bait him into doing interviews so they can play their “gotcha games.”
There is no press. It died Long ago. We now have a state run information steering and feeding circus for entertainment.
Just say F*** Y’all!
Avoiding the press is what Biden does.
It worked for Biden during the 2020 campaign. Worked for Fetterman in PA in 22 and Hobbs in AZ in 22. Why do anything other than what they themselves did?
“. . . not just attacking nonpartisan news outlets, but . .”
Nonpartisan news outlets . . . tell me another one Mother Goose.
Thanks funny. Lefties will only talk to reporters that will give them a cat bath. They don’t like it when the pubs try the same thing.
Governor Mastriano also did this.
I wouldn’t freeze out reporters, but I’d put them on the same plane as average citizens. I’d let reporters sit in the audience for “town hall” appearances, and they could ask questions (one question each) along with a bunch of average non reporters in the audience who could also ask question. No more press conferences with just reporters.
DeSantis seems to always get into fights with reporters. Trump knew to attack the true enemies like Acosta, but with others he was very skilled at ridiculing them with their own words, delivered with a smile. I have never seen DeSantis do that.
Trump made a number of liberal reporters into stars by giving them a spotlight. I’m not sure that was a good thing. They deserve obscurity, not Romine ce, IMO.
Bkmk
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