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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's hard to trust the press when journalists keep saving scoops for future books
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Hello, dear readers,
This morning, I woke up to news that New York Times reporter Maggie Habermans long-awaited Trump book has a name and a cover. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, is out October 4 from Penguin Press.
And like the promotion of other books from other White House reporters and Trump-trackers, Habermans announcement came with a juicy new tidbit to help promote it. In this case, the scoop was news that White House residence staff had occasionally discovered clumps of printed paper clogging the former presidents toilet, and believed that he had been flushing documents. Additionally, she reported that Trump has kept in touch with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un since leaving office.
Cool, cool, cool. Okay. Now, not having read the book (as were still months out from its release), I can imagine that these excerpts were chosen because Trumps handling of documents has been back in the news. It was just a few days ago that The Washington Post reported that Trump took his love letters from Kim with him to Mar-a-lago upon leaving office in a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law mandating the preservation of presidential documents. Had some other topic been making headlines in recent days, its reasonable to assume that Haberman and her publicity team would choose a different topic to lead her announcement.
But why are we just learning about this now?
I dont really care about the toilet story. Trump has been flouting the PRA for as long as he was in office1, so its not exactly a gigantic shock that hes continued that practice. More worrying is yesterdays New York Times report that Trumps collection of stolen documents at Mar-a-lago may have contained classified information. Naturally, the Times buried that story on page 15 of todays paper.
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It's hard to trust the press when journalists keep saving scoops for future books (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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intrepidity
(7,337 posts)1. Yes, this really disturbs me
A LOT.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)2. Jonathan Karl did this, also
I hate these awful people
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)3. You could have stopped after "it's hard to trust the press"