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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 06:03 PM Aug 2018

Fox "News" editor: We should stop having reporters at Trump rallies

Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt suggested on Friday that news outlets cease sending reporters to President Trump's rallies, saying that their presence allows Trump to use them as a "prop."

“We should stop having reporters at those Trump rallies," Stirewalt said on Fox News's "Outnumbered." "Everybody should stop having reporters penned up like veal in the back of those things for the president to use as a prop, and then some of the reporters exploit that for their own personal benefit."

Stirewalt added that "this is not helping anybody. Get out of the hall. Leave the cameras, get the reporters out of the hall. Quit letting him use you as a foil."


Stirewalt also suggested an end to televised White House press briefings, calling them "counterproductive" and "showboat theater."

"It has become a forum of personal achievement and political utility for the administration," he said.



http://thehill.com/homenews/media/400307-fox-news-editor-we-should-stop-having-reporters-at-trump-rallies

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Fox "News" editor: We should stop having reporters at Trump rallies (Original Post) kpete Aug 2018 OP
Translation: trump babbles like a foolish idiot GusBob Aug 2018 #1
I agree with Fox News Delarage Aug 2018 #2
Same Awsi Dooger Aug 2018 #4
I Posted The Exact Same Thing Earlier Today.... global1 Aug 2018 #3

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
1. Translation: trump babbles like a foolish idiot
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 06:07 PM
Aug 2018

And the hall is full of drooling screeching baboons. These rallies are making us look doofus

Delarage

(2,186 posts)
2. I agree with Fox News
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 06:19 PM
Aug 2018

OMG....never thought I'd say that!

Nothing good comes from his stupid campaign events, total waste of fucking time. We already know the kinds of folks that support him, so watching their antics is nauseating. Someday I hope those people yelling at Jim Acosta, for example, will look back and realize what "morans" they were.

Covering these zoos does set up reporters for insults, gives him free publicity, and throws meat to the idiot base.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
4. Same
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 06:56 PM
Aug 2018

This has been true since his campaign. The problem is so much variance between Trump and a typical politician that none of the media outlets have understood that a similarly equal variance is required in how he is dealt with.

Trump has a surreal advantage because there was never anybody halfway between his outrageous level and the norm. Otherwise the blueprint would have been in place.

global1

(25,253 posts)
3. I Posted The Exact Same Thing Earlier Today....
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 06:26 PM
Aug 2018

Used the same word. Trump uses the media at his rallies as a 'prop'.

Stop covering his rallies. Don't give him the opportunity to let him use you.

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