{"id":11735,"date":"2016-06-13T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=11735"},"modified":"2024-12-05T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:30:00","slug":"donald-trump-revokes-the-press-credentials-of-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2016\/06\/13\/donald-trump-revokes-the-press-credentials-of-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump revokes the press credentials of the Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced late Monday afternoon that he was revoking the press credentials of the Washington Post<\/em> for being \u201cphony and dishonest.\u201d It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what the paper did to spark this move, but Trump said in a Facebook post<\/a> that he was doing so because of its \u201cincredibly inaccurate coverage\u201d of his campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a previous Facebook update that was posted less than an hour earlier, Trump provided some clues<\/a> as to why he wanted to punish the Post<\/em>\u2018. According to the candidate, the newspaper was being phony and dishonest because it used a headline for his recent speech that said \u201cDonald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/em> executive editor Marty Baron said in a statement that Trump\u2019s decision \u201cis nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press,\u201d and that the newspaper would \u201ccontinue to cover Donald Trump as it has all along \u2014 honorably, honestly, accurately, energetically, and unflinchingly. We\u2019re proud of our coverage, and we\u2019re going to keep at it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a sign of just how low Trump\u2019s standing is with the Washington press gallery, a host of media organizations took to Twitter to congratulate<\/a> the Washington Post<\/em> and its reporters for being blocked from official coverage of the Trump campaign. Many of them have either been banned altogether or had their credentials revoked after displeasing the candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note<\/strong>: This was\u00a0originally published\u00a0at Fortune, where I was a senior writer from 2015 to 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

According to a list that Mother Jones pulled together earlier this year, the Trump campaign\u2019s media block list either includes or has included<\/a> the National Review<\/em>, the Des Moines Register<\/em>, Univision, BuzzFeed, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and Mother Jones<\/em>. At one point in March, the Trump campaign turned down a request from Politico, apparently because of the new outlet\u2019s unflattering coverage of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement released after the ban was announced, the Trump campaign said that the Washington Post<\/em> \u201ccovers Mr. Trump very inaccurately,\u201d and that the candidate didn\u2019t want to work with a publication that he said has \u201cput its need for clicks above journalistic integrity.\u201d The statement went on to allege that the Post<\/em> is being \u201cused by the owners of Amazon\u201d as a political lobbying tool so that \u201cthey don\u2019t have to pay taxes and don\u2019t get sued for monopolistic tendencies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to blocking or banning media outlets, the Trump campaign also restricts journalists to specific areas at events, often referred to as \u201cpens.\u201d In one case, a Time Inc. photographer who stepped just a few feet outside of one of these corrals in order to take a photo was tackled and thrown<\/a> to the ground by a Secret Service officer working for the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has made a habit throughout his campaign of referring to the press in less than flattering terms, calling them \u201cscum\u201d and \u201cthe absolute worst.\u201d And he has also talked about how he plans to \u201copen up libel laws\u201d<\/a> if he becomes president, so that it would be easier for him to sue media outlets that publish unflattering reports about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a modern social-media perspective, one of the reasons why Trump is so blas\u00e9 about banning traditional media organizations is that he knows he can get<\/a> his message out regardless using Twitter, Facebook and other social tools. And he can also count on coverage from the major TV networks, not just because he is the front runner for the Republican nomination, but because it is good for business, as CBS<\/a> president Les Moonves has pointed out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced late Monday afternoon that he was revoking the press credentials of the Washington Post for being \u201cphony and dishonest.\u201d It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what the paper did to spark this move, but Trump said in a Facebook post that he was doing so because of its \u201cincredibly inaccurate coverage\u201d of his campaign. In … <\/p>\n

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