Huffington Post - As America celebrated its independence , journalists covering presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton found theirs restricted by rope-clutching campaign aides.
The Clinton campaign corralled journalists at the Fourth of July parade in Gorham, New Hampshire, keeping the Fourth Estate away from the candidate and mostly out of earshot from exchanges with voters. Photos of cordoned-off journalists quickly went viral.
Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, avoided interviews during her first two months as a candidate. Campaign events are carefully stage managed, with reporters getting few opportunities to question the candidate. And she has yet to do a lengthy national media interview.
Journalists privately met last month to discuss grievances over access on the campaign trail -- from not receiving timely logistical information to being kept too far from the candidate at public events or kept completely out of fundraisers. Representatives from the Clinton press corps brought their concerns to top communications officials the following week.
But just days after the attempted détente. , the Clinton campaign denied access to the press corps' designated pool reporter at an event. In a joint statement, fourteen news organizations condemned the campaign's decision as "unacceptable."
"Never underestimate @HillaryClinton 's capacity to fritter away commanding natural advantages with poor judgment," tweeted Politico's Glenn Thrush.
Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman urged his reporters Sunday to "write a hit piece" if a candidate ever "tries to rope you like a cow."
"It's a mystery to me why any editor would ask his reporters to put up with this crap," Shachtman added. "Especially when these events are newsless!"
2 comments:
Standing by for the first serious hit piece (by the majors) of Hillary's walk-in closet full of skeletons...
(D) is for Liar. But even I'm surprised to learn that the Democrats are lying when they say their evil is lessor. Look at the details. A campaign that's at least as hostile to the press as any that Dick Cheney would run. As always with the Democrats, judge them by their actions and only pay attention to their words to note that they just lie to you. And sneer about stupid liberals when they think the mics are off. Watch their actions. If they run their campaign worse than Dick Cheney, then there's only logic to say they'll rule worse than Dick Cheney.
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