Trump campaign bars Iowa paper from Iowa event after critical editorial

[George II]

Source: CNN

By Theodore Schleifer, CNN
Updated 8:00 PM ET, Fri July 24, 2015

(CNN)The Des Moines Register, Iowa's largest newspaper, reported early Friday evening that it has been barred from attending a Donald Trump campaign event in Iowa after the paper's editorial board called on him to drop out of the race.

A Register article said Friday that the Trump campaign had informed the paper that its reporters were not welcome at The Make America Great Again Rally and Family Picnic on Saturday in Oskaloosa. The campaign denied them press credentials, reporters said.

"We are disappointed that Mr. Trump's campaign has taken the unusual step of excluding Register reporters from covering his campaign event in Iowa on Saturday because he was displeased with our editorial," Register editor Amalie Nash said in a statement to her paper. "We hope Mr. Trump's campaign will revisit its decision instead of making punitive decisions because we wrote something critical of him."

Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, told the paper that the decision to ban the Register was a direct consequence of the paper's editorial on Tuesday, which was entitled "Trump should pull the plug on his bloviating side show" and called him a "feckless blowhard."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/24/politics/donald-trump-iowa-des-moines-register/index.html

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That campaign is a laugh a minute! Way to go Donald, keep the press on your side!!

[PSPS]

1. "Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel"

I wonder if this Twain quote still applies in this era. In any case, it does affirm the cultish/sideshow/stuntish quality of the "campaign." I'm sure Trump's Central Casting department won't have any trouble casting "the reporters."

[OhWiseOne]

2. Obama should have done this to Fox years ago.

Not real reporters or real news should have been a good enough reason.

[George II]

3. I think he did something similar - he bumped the Fox reporter from the front row.

[former9thward]

11. Fox is in the front row.

The White House Correspondents' Association determines the seating in the press room not the White House.



http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/03/the-white-house-press-room-seating-chart-204543.html

[George II]

13. I seem to remember someone getting booted out of the front row, but I don't know who...

...and probably I'm mistaken.

[lancer78]

4. After the poll numbers

shown on the Maddow show, this guy is the new Teflon Don.

[Eugene]

5. Politically stupid. But this will resonate with the GOP base.

He's not even trying to win Iowa but national polls put him at 28 percent.
This is entertaining and scary at the same time.

[Sunlei]

6. you see?, The Donald can ban a press easy, yet President Obama has to face fox-lies at every presser

Donald Trump is already the most powerful Republican there ever was.

[jtuck004]

7. He gets free press everywhere else. Might just be part of this marketing campaign. n/t

[Botany]

8. I don't know about now but the Des Moines Register has a history of being one of the ....

.... best papers in the country. Although, they might have a conservative and midwestern
slant to their editorials they have been good for years and Trump wants to pick a fight w/them
on their home turf? ....... this will not turn out well for Donald.

Running in Iowa without letting the Register cover your events is a suicide mission.

[former9thward]

12. They called for him to leave the race.

He did not pick the fight. If someone is calling for you to withdraw and calls you a blowhard there is not much else they can do to you.

[Sunlei]

14. Press requests & has to be given credentials to attend. Trump can with hold permission.

Des Moines Register can do like many other non attending medias do, rewrite the story using a few "quotes" from other media.

I hope Mrs. Clinton doesn't allow fox to attend her campaign functions. Put fox in a roped off box a mile away.

Trumps a master at gaining media coverage, he's the best Republican at dominating media the world has ever seen.

[marble falls]

9. I love the way the feckless blowhard is running his bloviating side show......

I hope he spends every cent of his mythical $10B on it.

[bluestateguy]

10. Their event, their right

I wish Hillary would do the same to Fox News.