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Is it true...

vibiker

Monkey
May 3, 2004
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..that the Great One has booted off reporters off his plane? Their sin was that their papers endorsed McCain. If true, is this SOP?

Washington Times, NY Post , Dallas Morning News
 

Inclag

Turbo Monkey
Sep 9, 2001
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You mean people are still asking Wayne Gretzky questions about his wife's involvement in illegal gambling??
 

ohio

The Fresno Kid
Nov 26, 2001
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I didn't know Wayne Gretzky had reporters on his plane to begin with. Intriguing.

edit: damn you inclag. Now I have to switch to a Roberto Clemente joke.
 

JohnE

filthy rascist
May 13, 2005
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Front Range, dude...
For those of you too lazy to click...

McCain should know all about boycotting the media. Some examples:

– McCain canceled an appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live after CNN’s Campbell Brown conducted a tough interview with McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds about Palin’s foreign policy experience.

– Last month, the McCain campaign barred New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from flying on both the McCain and Palin press planes after she wrote a negative column.

– McCain campaign officials barred Time’s Joe Klein from traveling with them, after he asked McCain an uncomfortable question about foreign policy.

– Campaign officials have repeatedly gone on air to bash journalists after tough interviews, saying that Katie Couric asked Palin “a series of trapdoor questions,” the New York Times “cast aside it’s journalistic integrity to advocate for the defeat of John McCain,” and demanded that the media treat Palin with “deference.”

Yesterday, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani leveled similar charges against the Obama campaign, saying that the West debacle “gives an indication of what an Obama administration would be like. I mean, as long as you drink their Kool-Aid, you’re fine.” Earlier in the week, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney condoned West’s interview, saying, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
 

Transcend

My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
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Towing the party line.
Dowd and Klein are both columists. The x-"0"-force once reporters were beat reporters. A not so minor detail.
Granted he can do whatever he wants, but he looks very petty and vindictive.
There is absolutely no difference. It comes down to exactly the same thing, booting media off the plane you do not agree with. You could say the same thing for McCain cancelling Letterman or CNN.
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
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There is absolutely no difference. It comes down to exactly the same thing, booting media off the plane you do not agree with. You could say the same thing for McCain cancelling Letterman or CNN.
WTF do you know about the media?

Oh, wait... :D
 

sanjuro

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Sep 13, 2004
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OMG!

Washington Times - owned by Rev Sun Myung Moon
NY Post - owned by Rupert Murdock

Dallas Morning News seems reputable, but those papers, who I have read extensively, has almost no objectivity, conservative or otherwise.

From the DMN:

But we don't have evidence that the newspaper's endorsement of Sen. McCain had any bearing on the campaign's decision to boot us from the plane. No one from the campaign ever mentioned it to Todd. (And for the record, he as a reporter, and I as the editor in charge of political coverage, had absolutely no input or knowledge of the endorsement. That's handled by a different department on a different floor. I didn't even know about the editorial board's choice until I read it in the paper a couple of Sundays ago.)

We think the Obama campaign's decision is to some degree more a function of limited seats, and while we're a large regional newspaper, we're not national and we're not in a swing state. We've been on the road with them at key moments, but we've not been along for the entire ride, like, say, The New York Times and The Associated Press.

For what it's worth, we've had the same trouble with the McCain campaign. One of our reporters dropped off earlier this week when space became an issue, and we're only getting back on with McCain tomorrow for the final weekend because they, unlike the Obama campaign, are adding a second plane.
 

vibiker

Monkey
May 3, 2004
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OMG!

Washington Times - owned by Rev Sun Myung Moon
NY Post - owned by Rupert Murdock

Dallas Morning News seems reputable, but those papers, who I have read extensively, has almost no objectivity, conservative or otherwise.

From the DMN:
It their concern was about lack objectivity, why wait until their editorial side of the paper endorses the McCain? Why not oust them early on? Again, funny how this group seems to sever ties once you say the wrong thing about them.
 

sanjuro

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Sep 13, 2004
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It their concern was about lack objectivity, why wait until their editorial side of the paper endorses the McCain? Why not oust them early on? Again, funny how this group seems to sever ties once you say the wrong thing about them.
You could probably criticize the Obama campaign for this, as long you understand this is normal behavior for every campaign on both sides.

There is a limited amount of space on the plane, and yeah, not surprisingly the favored get the best access.

Keep in mind that no reporter is denied to rallies or even access to the candidates. Just their travel arrangements on their employers now.