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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaggie Haberman?
Is she the Judy Miller of this administration? On CNN tonight talking about how there are know problems wit FISA according to reporting over last two years. Don't recall that reporting.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)yes,Haberman is the Judy Miller of the Trump Administration.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)She's been covering him for many years. He treats her like crap, including mocking her looks. And yet she keeps defending him.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)completely unflattering. She definitely has said a handful of things I really didn't like and I felt was a step too far that toggled the line and could of been a defense...but for the most part I don't find her doing that. In my opinion of course.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)I was driving a couple of hours and it was the only thing on. She definitely sees herself as being tough on him, and she often does, but you could also hear her reflexively defend him. She was asked point blank about him insulting her, and all she could do was note that he treats everyone that way.
I also remember her bringing up a movie review Trump did of Citizen Kane from 20+ years ago as evidence that he can speak intelligently about things that he knows about (i.e., not policy). I watched the video on YouTube and while there was definitely less word salad, he certainly didn't come across as knowledgeable, and his "review" was also pretty sexist.
The whole thing was fascinating.
delisen
(6,044 posts)Once you place your confidence in a con man part of you becomes part of him.She feel's his pain.
herding cats
(19,566 posts)Joe Pompeo of Vanity Fair called her The Trump Whisperer, I call her a panderer for her own gains.
Shes a West Wing-beat colossus and a sui generis creature at the paper of record. Maggies success is very much part of that tabloid, Twitter-fied sensibility bleeding into the Times, says a colleague.
No one embodies the surreal, codependent, often abusive relationship between the media and Donald Trump as much as Maggie Haberman, the most prominent White House correspondent for the publication Trump likes to call The Failing New York Times. Much as he professes to despise the Timestotal fiction, hes called ithe cant quit Haberman. He returns her calls, gives her exclusives. He wouldnt talk to me as much as he does if I wasnt at the Times, Haberman said on a podcast recently. Thats just the reality. He craves the papers approval.
Habermans Twitter feed is as active as @realDonaldTrumps, and indispensable for understanding him. Shes the queen of political journalism at a time when Trumps reality-television administration has supercharged the news business, with hundreds of thousands of new subscribers flocking to legacy publications like the Times and The Washington Post, TV ratings through the roof, and a refreshing bump in public trust, according to a new Reuters survey, for the fake-news media. Haberman, who in a pairing with her colleague and frequent collaborator Glenn Thrush ranked No. 32 on Vanity Fairs 2017 New Establishment List this week, is right at the center.
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Dowds calling card as a White House correspondent was her storytelling, infused with attitude and prose that sometimes may have felt more at home in the pages of Spy magazine than the paper of record. (Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, was a co-founder of Spy.) Habermans signature is her preternatural ability to get lots of people telling her lots of things they probably shouldnt be telling her. Shes regarded as the best-sourced reporter in Washington, the irony being that she only spends part of her time there, working largely out of her home turf in New York. Shes able not only to get inside the room with Trump, but to seemingly get inside his brainto translate for the masses what he and the people around him at any given moment are thinking about the crisis or controversy du jour. That skill has made her incredibly valuable at a time when juicy, granular, inside-the-room dish has gained massive journalistic currencyTrump watching cable news in his bathrobe, Trump in a foul mood for this reason or that, and so on.
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The larger story, one of Habermans colleagues told me, is the increasingly tabloid-y evolution of the mainstream political press. These stories are fun to read, theyre very of-the-moment, theyre made for Twitter. So I think Maggies success is very much part of that tabloid, Twitter-fied sensibility bleeding into the Times, entering the Timess metabolism. Jim VandeHei, who helped popularize this incremental, fast-twitch style of Washington journalism as a co-founder of Politico, where VandeHei hired Haberman in 2010, said its definitely new turf for Habermans current employer. He cited a level of metabolism, a level of intrigue, a level of intense focus on the players and the personal dynamics that youre just not used to seeing in The New York Times. Speaking of Haberman and Thrush, a fellow New York tabloid and Politico alum, who joined the Timess Trump team at the beginning of the year, former Times executive editor Jill Abramson said, Theyve made the Times competitive in a Politico style of reporting that everybody who plays the inside game loves. The Times would not be as competitive without them.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/is-trump-whisperer-maggie-haberman-changing-the-new-york-times
In the end, it's about her wanting to have access her colleagues don't to this WH, and I deeply hope that comes back to bite her career in the backside sooner rather than later. She's not doing any favors for our country with her writing, she's only thinking about her own selfish goals and ambitions. She's the embodiment of what's wrong with our media today.
JI7
(89,260 posts)He also worked for the New York Post who also are previous employers of Maggie.
delisen
(6,044 posts)Wonder if it signals the tabloidization of the Times
herding cats
(19,566 posts)At least as far as she's concerned. I'm not impressed with her in the least, to be honest. A correspondent who writes for clicks far too often ignores important details of real news to make their quota of followers and likes. Which is exactly what she does. There's no integrity or ethics in her reporting, it's all easy money stuff for the hits.
Cha
(297,497 posts)herding cats
(19,566 posts)I have no love for Haberman. She's a cause of the dumbing down of our country. Her and every half rate journalist like her are responsible for many ills which have befallen our nation. The kicker is they did it all in the names of their careers and selling their product. That's not journalism, that's good marketing of a cheap product.
Cha
(297,497 posts)it bluntly.. in not so nice a word.
herding cats
(19,566 posts)We need to call it out when we see it. If we don't, who will?
Zo Zig
(600 posts)If you are talking with foreign intelligence services, you are subject to surveillance, not a difficult concept to understand. How is that a problem then if the government has an interest in your activies?
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)What somebody posted above about her father and her and the NY Post gave me a little a-ha insight, like: He loves the NY media/tabloids?!1
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)So she will BS readers, as long as Trump keeps calling. A reporter no one needs. Investigational journalist, pass!