Yesterday at work the subject of my past journalism came up. I mentioned that there were two things that I was most proud of:
- Being referred to as “The hardest working blogger at CPAC” by Stacy McCain
- Honest reporting, never having altered or editing my videos to spin facts or being bought
A great example of this came from a story you haven’t heard that I didn’t write. After the Scott Brown election there was a surge in interest and morale in the GOP and there was a particular GOP state rep that was getting some traction both on talk radio and in the news and went on a bit of a speaking tour in the state (let me point out that this was in the days of flip phones rather than smart ones). Said speaker had an event locally and I went to attend it and brought my little camera, the same one that I would use years later in Worcester to film and question Donald Trump, and prepared to cover her speech to a good sized Tea Party crowd.
When she saw me with the camera at the start she said she did not want the speech recorded or filmed. When I heard this I promptly left and didn’t bother to cover her speech or event, my thought being if you’re talking to voters and not willing to be recorded then I can’t trust what you’re saying publicly and I never bothered to cover her again.
That’s what the press should have done when the Biden Administration did this: (emphasis from link)
In an interview with Cenk Uygur on “The Young Turks” show, LaRosa admitted: “They did bully a lot of journalists, and I think they would tell you that now. They wouldn’t have told you at the time.”
LaRosa didn’t want to say the reporters were “co-conspirators,” but it’s impossible to see all of their obsequious cooperation with Team Biden and think that word is inappropriate.
Uygur asked how they bullied the press, and LaRosa said Joe’s handlers insisted they had to pre-approve the quotes used in stories. That’s helping shape the story, not something an “independent journalist” would accept.
LaRosa added “you saw them get caught trying to script questions to radio reporters” last summer. They didn’t just “try.” The radio hosts the Bidenites selected were happy to use the pre-scripted questions. LaRosa added: “It was very reminiscent to me of being on the campaign in 2020, where these young press staffers in these states like New Hampshire, or Iowa, or Nevada, they were sort of like dog trained to make the questions conditional for interviews.” Questions had to be submitted for approval.
Frankly I would not trust the reporting from anybody who consented to this without revealing it.
I’m with Ace on how this should be handled:
So obviously, Trump or Katherine Leavitt should ban every reporter who asked a “pre-screened” question of Biden — thus perpetrating a fraud on the American people, and showing that they are nothing but Democrat propaganda officers — from ever setting foot in the press room again.
Make them argue in favor of “pre-clearing” staged questions for a mentally-incompetent archliberal incompetent.
And what profith a person if they get to ask the President a question at a press conference but lose their own honor?
The real question is if they had any honor to lose
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