2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMaybe Hillary should take a page from the Matt Santos playbook
Remember in Season 7 of the West Wing, when Josh decided that Santos should brief the press every day, with the hopes that they would get sick of it? I think Hillary ought to try that. I think a lot of the reason she gets less favorable coverage than Trump is that Trump is constantly making himself available to the media. They reward him with easier coverage. Given how opaque he has been in other areas, such as not releasing his tax returns, Hillary ought to claim the high ground on transparency by 1) briefing the press frequently, maybe even once a day; and 2) releasing detailed health records and making her doctors available for questioning.
I don't think she should have to do either of those things, and I understand that she values her privacy. But I think she has an opportunity to showcase how untransparent Trump is being by giving the media nothing to gripe about, and it would probably improve her coverage.
crazylikafox
(2,762 posts)for breakfast, what she wore, when her bowels moved, etc. etc. etc.
Make them look like a bunch of idiots for asking...
Transparency, ya know!
democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)I think you might have meant it in jest but maybe she should actually try it. Like you said, it would make them look like idiots.