Can the leftist press avoid asking conservatives loaded questions?
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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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Can the leftist press avoid asking conservatives loaded questions?
This originally appeared in the NYT. Take it from there.
Biases against Trump? I voted for him in each primary and general election and will vote for him again if he is the nominee. But his decision making is often suspect especially when it comes to the media and his choice of the people he surrounded himself with while in office. The inability to criticize Trump without being labeled as some sort of “RINO” is what is turning alot of people off. He was/is a godsend to this nation, but he ain’t perfect.
ABC News is “non-partisan?”
The author is nuts. They have an actual former Democrat campaign chief as their newscaster.
I wish I could sell pablum too ABC.
ABC is nonpartisan?
LOL.
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Why take interviews with neo-Marxist bong huffers?
Yep, treat them in the best manner possible, by walking away after his announcements and taking no questions from anybody. That is the kindest and most open thing he can do.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaha!!! Nonpartisan??? Baloney! Big Media is the propaganda arm of the demonicRAT Party. ABC is one of the worst examples of that. Owned by Disney, all fag all the time.
I doubt that DeSantis is avoiding the press, but I think it likely that they are refusing to meet with him under the terms offered. Long ago, conservative targets found that the media behaved or went away when the proper ground rules were insisted on: no ambush interviews, the subjects had to be agreed to in advance, and all interviews were recorded and would be immediately made public if the interviewer violated the rules or distorted the answers.
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