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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJOY: Wolffe did access journalism in the most karmic and Trumpian fashion: he ingratiated himself to
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IOW: Wolffe did access journalism in the most karmic and Trumpian fashion: he ingratiated himself to his know-nothing hosts then burned their house to the ground (walking straight out the front door waving the receipts).
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...................All of Wolffs excerpts from Fire & Fury so far (the book was rushed into stores today) read like jayvee fan fiction. They read like a pilot that Steve Bannon himself wrote, pitched to Hollywood, and had rejected 17 times over. They read, in short, like bullshit. And yet Wolff has audio. Hes got hours upon hours of audio. Not only that, but the book has already caused legitimate upheaval in the administration, opened a permanent rift between President Trump and Bannon, AND it confirms what we have all always known to be true: that the president severely lacks the cognitive ability to do this job, and that he is surrounded at all times by a cadre of enablers, dunces, and outright thieves. As much as I wanna discredit Wolff, he got receipts and, more important, he used them. Wolff got it all. Wolff nailed them.
And look how he did it. He did it by sleazily ingratiating himself with the White House, gaining access, hosting weird private dinners, and then taking full advantage of the administration's basic lack of knowledge about how reporting works. Some of the officials Wolff got on tape claim to be unaware that they were on the record. Wolff denies this, but he's very much up front in the book's intro about the fact that he was able to exploit the incredible "lack of experience" on display here. In other words, Wolff got his book by playing a bunch of naive dopes.
Thank God for that. Wolff has spent this week thoroughly exploiting Trump and his minions the same way they've exploited the cluelessness of others. And he pulled it off because, at long last, there was a reporter out there willing to toss decorum aside and burn bridges the same way Trump does.
Everyone around Donald Trump is too polite to Donald Trump. Democrats, foreign dignitaries, underlings all of them. And the White House press is perhaps the worst offender. From the media pool playing along with Sarah Sanders during press conferencesconferences where Sanders openly lies and pisses on democracyto access merchants like Maggie Haberman doling out Trump gossip like so many bread crumbs, too many reporters have been far too deferential to an administration that is brazenly racist, dysfunctional, and corrupt. And for what purpose? Its clear to me that Haberman and the like arent saving up their chits for just the EXACT right time to bring this Administration down. No, the only end goal of their access is continued access, to preserve it indefinitely so that the copy spigot never gets shut off. They are abiding by traditional wink-wink understandings that have long existed between the government and the press covering it.
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JOY: Wolffe did access journalism in the most karmic and Trumpian fashion: he ingratiated himself to (Original Post)
riversedge
Jan 2018
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(2,073 posts)1. In other words: He played them at their own game.
I have to say, the book itself is not that good. The long-winded descriptions of the Dotard are boring and i flip past them. Its value, however, is in confirming what we suspect all along, by describing the insanity going on in the background while insanity was/is playing out in public.