Secretary Zinke Bans Reporter for Honest Coverage of His Terrible Fishing Ability

[n2doc]

A reporter from Outside Magazine wrote a profile on Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke after they went fly-fishing together. Towards the end of a very worthwhile piece, he noticed something worth mentioning:

As Zinke and I casted over the ice-cold water, I noticed something funny about his setup. He kept struggling to strip line out of the bottom of the reel. For a while, I thought he was simply having trouble concentrating on our conversation while casting. No, there was something wrong, and when I asked him to stand for a portrait, I finally saw what the problem was. He had rigged his reel backward, so that the line was coming out of the top of the reel. Every so often when he went to strip line out, he would grasp air where the line should’ve been.

Seems like an inconsequential thing, but in Montana, it’s everything.

After mentioning this at the end of the article the editor of Outside Magazine was banned from the next conference call held by the Department of the Interior where Secretary Zinke was busy attacking the outdoor clothing company, Patagonia, for daring to stand up to him and his illegal action of shrinking National Monuments. Outside Magazine reported:

Ryan Zinke, the secretary of the interior, was not pleased. On a Tuesday conference call with reporters he called Patagonia “a special interest group.” (Outside was not on the call. Despite repeated efforts to join, one of our editors was blocked. The previous day, the magazine had published a critical profile of Zinke by Elliott Woods that illustrated, among other issues, the secretary’s struggles to properly rig a fly rod.)

It was quickly noticed on Twitter:

Buried in here: an @outsidemagazine editor was barred from a Zinke conference call after the mag made fun of him for not knowing how to work his fly rod https://t.co/SmZXj4if16

— Mark Sundeen (@SundeenMark) December 9, 2017

The fishing incident would be a comical encounter if not for the dangerous precedent set to ban reporters who tell the truth. This is where we’re at in this country right now. Republican tries to use some Orwellian language to ram through some draconian policy. This is reported on by the free press, often with foibles, warts and factual analysis added. This administration responds with denials, threats, distractions and now, bans reporters. This is the media cycle, in a nutshell, a quickly slipping into an authoritarian regime nutshell.

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https://themontanapost.com/2017/12/11/secretary-zinke-bans-reporter-for-honest-coverage-of-his-terrible-fishing-ability/

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Link doesn't work

Wanted to read more about Kinky Zinke . . .


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[n2doc]

2. works for me, but server is glitchy

try a few times

[Brother Buzz]

3. I'm not gonna lie. He's a world champion peckerwood

"I'm not gonna lie. He's a world champion peckerwood. Bait fisherman? He didn't say. Good Lord! George. He's going to show up with a coffee can full of worms. Red can. Hills Brothers. I'll lay a bet on it." - A River Runs through it

[rzemanfl]

5. Hey Buzz. What's up? I am still laying low. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

8. LOL, I shit you not, I'm reading Trout Fishing in America

I read it forty-eight years ago and felt it was time to revisit it. Richard Brautigan lived in my hometown just before it splashed and made him famous. Good read, maybe even better then the first time I read it.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Montana sportsmen should deport him from the state.

[Me.]

6. I Thought THat By Law

they can't undo what PBO has done.

[csziggy]

7. Here is a link to the Outside article referenced in The Montana Post

https://www.outsideonline.com/2266216/man-flies-his-own-flag

[raven mad]

9. My gawd, could I show him a couple of great spots..............

very, very, very near bear habitats!