Hillary’s big S.F. events closed to press

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn’t even started her 2016 presidential campaign yet — and she’s already shutting out the press.

Clinton’s much-anticipated speech at the Moscone Center on Saturday before the National Association of Realtors conference, a convention that is drawing 22,000 people to San Francisco this week, will be blacked out — closed to the media.

So will her big fundraiser Saturday night with Chelsea Clinton at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom, a “Millennial Network” event to benefit the Clinton Foundation.

The decision to bar reporters from the Clinton speech before thousands of Realtors is “per her team’s request,” a National Association of Realtors spokeswoman told us in an e-mail Monday.

Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/11/04/we-call-b-s-in-social-media-capital-both-hillarys-big-sf-events-closed-to-press/

[gopiscrap]

1. Why?

[lostincalifornia]

2. Why not. Is it intended for the public?

[madrchsod]

3. well that`s interesting is`t it....

i bet they will search the staff for recorders..

[NYC_SKP]

4. It's not her fault. It's her teams fault.

Not a great start, IMO.

[karynnj]

6. Her team includes her -- look at who is passing the blame.

Having watched CSPAN coverage that has shown campaign speeches as they evolve over the year or so that a politician is covered, I suspect that it could be that they are testing pieces of what will become the 2016 campaign. In her case, she does not easily have the ability to take the "first draft" for lack of a better phrase to a small crowd in NH or Iowa - see what resonates and what doesn't and hone a better stump speech.

Especially at this point where she is not officially running, she is unusual in that she may have more media coverage than she actually wants.

[bigdarryl]

5. I keep telling democrats I have a Bad filling about Hillary

2016 I'm not sold on her same old Clinton BS

[NightWatcher]

7. I'm no Hillary fan, but they all have closed door functions and fund raisers

There's no big shocker there and it's not a conspiracy thing.

[Starry Messenger]

8. Seems like sour grapes from the columnist.

Edit: kind of ironic since this reporter, Marinucci, got herself banned from White House press events for secretly filming President Obama at an event in San Francisco in 2011 and leaking the video.

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/217570

"Journalist Carla Marinucci used her video phone to shoot some footage of protesters demonstrating at a fundraiser in San Francisco.

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The move is said to have infuriated the White House, resulting in her banning and even threats to other reporters.

Marinucci was apparently banned from being one of the approved pool of reporters to cover presidential visits to the San Francisco Bay area, The Daily Mail reports."