Fox News editor: We should stop having reporters at Trump rallies
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Source: The Hill
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' "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 then 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 televising the White House press briefings, calling them "counterproductive" and "showboat theater."
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/400307-fox-news-editor-we-should-stop-having-reporters-at-trump-rallies
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bucolic_frolic
(55,107 posts)Is this guy signalling he's quitting his job, or is Fox now going to try to make an end run around the other networks on the issue of CREDIBILITY??
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Will wonders never cease.
Covering Trump rallies is giving oxygen to the Putinites. Choke them off.
Roy Rolling
(7,630 posts)The media should send a pool reporter and not play Trump's game.
Fuckin' amateur.
riversedge
(80,792 posts)
Funtatlaguy
(11,878 posts)If he sees writing on Wall, he will flip on Trump.
mgardener
(2,356 posts)Trump is too unstable to leave Fox alone for long.
Leghorn21
(14,090 posts)Dayam 
forgotmylogin
(7,952 posts)I know it's part humiliation, but I was thinking it's so the venue can load a sparse crowd behind Trump and then block off sightlines so the cameras only see him surrounded by people and can't film empty seats.
FakeNoose
(41,599 posts)TV reporters are not - and can't be - shown cheering or reacting in any way to his speeches. So if they stand behind him stony faced, how does that get the crowd worked up? It doesn't, so it's a stupid tactic. It demeans the journalists who are trying to do their job.
Who cares if the seats are empty, isn't that part of the story? Why did Cheeto go to a rally if nobody is there to listen to him? It really is time to end this charade.
maddiemom
(5,179 posts)give a flying f--k about the issues or his policies. They just want a chance to cut loose and be as deplorable as they possibly can. Finally a backlash about the "political correctness" that has been stifling their underlying bigotry and willful ignorance for the past few decades.
Sneederbunk
(17,483 posts)
True Blue American
(18,579 posts)Cable news needs to quit showing his lies over and over,too.
Grasswire2
(13,849 posts)Dammit. Reporters attending briefings are laying down a marker that it is the Constitutional right of the people to question their president and that the working press preserves this Constitutional right day after day after day. This president would be very gratified to have the press relinquish that watchdog role.
It is only the press standing between the people and tyranny now that Republicans in Congress have abdicated their oath of office. It is critical for us to protect and defend the free press.
The press must be there to witness and bear witness to what this president and party are doing every day. Without daily briefs, these fuckers could do whatever they wanted without having to explain, or at least try to obfuscate, their daily crap. No press at the briefings and rallies mean no first hand knowledge of what is happening. We need the press to hold these shits accountable.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)dalton99a
(94,106 posts)Every reputable news network should have boycotted him in 2015.
donkeypoofed
(2,188 posts)Propaganda State TV has a responsibility to be there and they're the only ones Spanky wouldn't try to have hurt
LisaM
(29,632 posts)I mean, he's as bad or worse than I originally thought, but if Fox is pushing back, he must really be more nightmarish than is already evident.
He's pretty much broken every relationship he's ever been in, though, so I suppose it's to be expected.
The Blue Flower
(6,486 posts)There would be no point. He loves the cameras.
Qutzupalotl
(15,821 posts)“and then some of the reporters exploit then that for their own personal benefit."
So it’s the exploitation by victimized reporters (read: Acosta), not Trump’s attacks on the free press that is the issue here. Got it.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)press conference where he has to answer hard questions. Covering his rallies is tantamount to covering his every tweet, it's a one way conversation. I can't understand why the media hasn't figured this out yet.
Johonny
(26,166 posts)the dude would be in Russia right now begging for them to keep financing his debt instead of being in the white house.
d_r
(6,908 posts)of the crazy stupid crap they could say if there were no cameras to capture it - hell, the stuff they say with cameras right there blows my mind.
djacq
(1,778 posts)
BigmanPigman
(55,123 posts)
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)No TV at his rallies.
Every rally brings clips of lie after lie.
They might not hurt his base, but every person with a brain gets more anti Trump with every rally performance.
Soxfan58
(3,537 posts)I want every thing that man says documented on video tape. He is not gaining votes with this BS, that he didn't already have. Let him keep spewing hate and losing votes for both the repervs and himself. Thats my opinion, I could be wrong.
renate
(13,776 posts)Does anybody know which side Rupert is on? I'd have assumed he would follow the ratings (which would mean the Trump GOP), but the biggest money is maybe with the Koch brothers and their ilk.
Pepsidog
(6,365 posts)
barbtries
(31,307 posts)but i heartily agree.
relayerbob
(7,427 posts)
Initech
(108,737 posts) 
I think that’s exactly what Trump would like. No media keeping tabs on what outrageous things he is saying.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Trump is the one who shouldn't go to these walking-dead conventions.
maddiemom
(5,179 posts)I've said as much on several forums and have usually had a lot of agreement. These "rallies" are NOT NORMAL! We learn nothing about national and world activities, except for Trump either whining about how badly he was treated by the media, or how wonderfully he performed (utter lies) on the world stage.
cannabis_flower
(3,931 posts)not that they were going to stop!
defacto7
(14,162 posts)Maybe they have determined that Trump is undermining his own base in television land. Shut down the cams and set the narrative as needed to make up for his blundering nonsense.
I wouldn't trust FUX to do the altruistic thing for the common good or to follow the most visible path they portray.
DeminPennswoods
(17,504 posts)thing yesterday on Hayes' show, iirc. He and the other conservative guest completely agreed on this tactic.
KSNY
(320 posts)Yes, on the surface. However, coming from Fox News, I'm very cynical.
1. The critique seems to be about Jim Acosta's confronting Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the White House Press Conference. So, Jim Acosta/CNN is the problem? Huh?
2. The incoherence of Trump's words at these rallies and the hateful behavior of the audience may turn off some Republicans who rationalized their vote for Trump and make them stay home in Nov. 2018 or vote for Democratic candidates.
3. Perhaps, since Trump is so unpopular with people outside of the hate rallies, the fact that Trump is an avid viewer of Fox News is not helping Fox News's ratings.
4. It seems clear that Fox News wants to be viewed as a serious media outlet (on a par with ...or even above... other networks, mainstream print journalists, and investigative reporters). They even replaced ''Fair and Balanced" with a new slogan "Real News, Real Honest Opinion." If other media organizations followed this suggestion from the Fox editor, this would allow Fox to be seen as a rational media outlet.
This said, I would prefer not to see footage from these rallies, though I appreciate the presence of the press organs that have the economic means to send journalists. Mostly, I read analysis (rather than breaking news), in Mother Jones, the Intercept, Jacobin, the New Yorker, etc.
Breaking news is just one thing after another and the constant barrage of outrages from this administration makes it difficult to digest and, more importantly, to understand what I can DO about it.
No Vested Interest
(5,297 posts)
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)The opinions of a Fox news editor are just that, opinions and not latest breaking news. The editor's opinions are no different than an op-ed columnist's for a newspaper.