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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNetworks Erase Footage Of Trump Hotel Tour After Producer Physically Restrained
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/networks-erase-trump-hotel-tour-footageMajor TV networks banded together to erase video of Donald Trump conducting a tour of his new Washington, D.C. hotel after they say the Republican nominees campaign broke with rules determining press pool coverage of his events and physically restrained an ABC News producer.
Trump on Friday invited only photographers and video cameras to accompany him on a tour of his newly-opened Trump International Hotel, after delivering a speech that had been billed as a "major statement" on his birtherism but only touched on the topic for 33 seconds. As Politico reported, pool rules require that a pool producer accompany any campaign event that will be documented visually.
Yet ABC producer Candace Smith wrote on Twitter that she was physically restrained from joining the tour. Once the other networks caught wind that any editorial presence had been barred from the tour, their Washington bureau chiefs decided in an emergency conference call to pull the camera accompanying Trump and erase all footage of the tour, according to Politico.
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Although his campaign billed the event as a press conference, he did not take any questions after acknowledging the President's birthplace. Associated Press photographs show journalists standing on chairs and shouting after him as he left the room. His staff then said that no reporters or editors would be allowed to join a tour of the hotel, circumventing another opportunity to ask questions.
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Networks Erase Footage Of Trump Hotel Tour After Producer Physically Restrained (Original Post)
deminks
Sep 2016
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onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)1. That is exactly what they get for kissing his ass.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)2. I hope this old adage proves true....
"It is unwise to bite the hand that feeds you"
malaise
(269,157 posts)3. The should be on all newscasts tonight
Don is a Con - one more ad for the Dems
Rex
(65,616 posts)4. It is pathetic how they pander to the plutocrat.
Corporate media is a joke the world over.