"Hillary Clinton attends Fox Chapel fundraiser as poll numbers sag"
There are 2 competing newspapers in the Pittsburgh/southwestern PA area. One is the conservative Tribune-Review, long owned and subsidized by the recently deceased billionaire, Richard Scaiffe. Scaiffe endorsed HRC in 2008, and donated to the Clinton Foundation, and Bill Clinton gave the eulogy at Scaiffe's memorial service. The other paper is the traditionally Democratic leaning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. I've given links to both articles.
The conservative Trib was at the fundraiser, interviewed many of the guests and had lots of pictures of HRC both outside and inside the estate. The Post-Gazette? An old photo of Clinton from last May in Las Vegas, a photo of the backs of cars lined up on a road awaiting entrance to the estate (along with a caption,"Cars line up on Hawthorne Road from Fox Chapel Road, heading to a private fundraiser this morning for Hillary Clinton. Security personnel said only invited guests were allowed down the street during the event."
and a picture of HRC with a handicapped young man, provided to the Post Gazette by his father, who would have been required to donate $2700 for having his son's photo taken w/HRC. The PG article stated the event was closed to the press. It seems the conservative/Scaiffe paper was allowed to attend the event, while the Democratic paper was frozen out. Do read the comments of the readers to both papers. There are some very harsh and nasty opinions of HRC there. They substantiate the prediction that if HRC is the candidate, she will increase the turnout of Republicans who harbor very negative (to put it mildly) feelings for her.
From the Trib:
(Headline) "Hillary Clinton attends Fox Chapel fundraiser as poll numbers sag"
Hillary Clinton made a quiet entrance into a private fundraiser Wednesday as her motorcade pulled into the driveway of a Fox Chapel home about 10 miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh. The “Conversations with Hillary” fundraiser, expected to draw about 100 to 125 attendees, requested a minimum contribution of $1,000 per person, according to the email invitation Clinton's campaign finance team issued.
Clinton's fundraising blitz comes as a new Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll shows her numbers sagging in several key states and her favorability falling. Guests shelling out $2,700 get a photo with Clinton. Individuals who bundle supporters to raise $10,000 become event co-hosts. For $27,000, they get to be event hosts and secure membership in the campaign's Hillstarters program.
Released Wednesday, the poll of registered voters suggests Republican contenders Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker all lead Clinton in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia in potential head-to-head matchups. She led all three in an April 9 Quinnipiac poll. Voters' favorability was below 50 percent in all three states: 35 percent in Colorado, 33 percent in Iowa and 41 percent in Virginia.
“Hillary Clinton's numbers have dropped among voters in the key swing states of Colorado, Iowa and Virginia. She has lost ground in the horserace and on key questions about her honesty and leadership,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. “On being a strong leader, a key metric in presidential campaigns, she has dropped four to 10 points depending on the state and she is barely above 50 percent in each of the three states.” Later Wednesday, Clinton is scheduled to attend a fundraiser at a home in Raleigh, N.C.
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And in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Hillary Clinton appears at private fundraiser in Fox Chapel
Presidential candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton was scheduled to make a stop in the Pittsburgh area this morning for a private fundraiser.
Clinton, also former secretary of state, was to appear at the Fox Chapel home of Cynthia Shapira, the wife of David Shapira, the executive chairman of Giant Eagle’s board of directors.
The Clinton event was closed to the press and the candidate had no public events scheduled during her brief Pittsburgh trip. A spokesman for her campaign said they would have no comment on the visit or how much money they hoped to reap from it.
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It looks like they were outside.
The picture of the inside of the house with Hillary was provided by an attendee, Andi Irwin. Check the picture credit. All other pictures are taken outside.
"Andi Irwin, 41, an artist from Squirrel Hill, said she last saw Clinton during a Downtown event at the Rivers Club during her 2008 campaign, when Irwin thought Clinton came off as “very tense.”
“I definitely left (the fundraiser) more inspired than last time,” said Irwin, whose husband, Steven Irwin, is a Downtown attorney. “She was so much warmer, and she just seemed really relaxed. She seems to have really evolved as a candidate and as a politician.”
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The Trib also made sure they included pictures of the protestors outside. 
Both articles had quotes from attendees. Only the Trib made any mention of poll numbers.
6 of 7 Trib photos were by Trib photographer (The Trib photographer was Andrew Russell/Trib Total Media.) 5 of those were inside the grounds of estate, 1 (of Onorato) was on the private road where only invited guests were allowed.
By contrast, the only Post Gazette photo by its photographer,(credited to "DarrellSapp/Post Gazette" was of the backs of cars lined up down a road & was captioned:
Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette: Cars line up on Hawthorne Road from Fox Chapel Road, heading to a private fundraiser this morning for Hillary Clinton. Security personnel said only invited guests were allowed down the street during the event. my emphasis added to caption.
The Trib article featured 7 photos, 6 of those by its own photographer, Andrew Russell. 5 of Russell's photos were taken on the estate, such as HRC getting out of her car right by the front of the home. Based on the statement that only "invited guests" were allowed down the street, the Trib-Review's photographer was an invited guest.
The Trib Reporter referred to interviewing a "dozen or so" guests and got her story on line by around 3 p.m. that day. Although her report attributes quotes and opinions to others, the description of what HRC said does not quote others:
In Fox Chapel, Clinton stressed the importance of improving education options and mental health programs, pointing to her concerns over rapidly ballooning student loan debt and the nationwide heroin epidemic, according to several guests, who contributed either a minimum of $1,000 per person, $2,700 for a photo with Clinton or bundled $27,000 to secure membership in the campaign's Hillstarters program.
During a roughly 30-minute speech inside the home of Cindy Shapira — community activist and wife of the CEO of the Giant Eagle grocery chain — Clinton warned that her GOP competitors threaten to undo progress in health care she attributed to the Affordable Care Act. She lamented that President Obama has not received enough credit for the nation's recovery from the Great Recession.
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According to standard journalism practices, the reporter heard these statements herself. Additionally, if the Trib reporter was not at the estate, she would have had to contact all the " nearly a dozen" attendees she quoted after they had returned to their various offices in downtown Pittsburgh/private homes/etc. Don't think she could possibly have done that and gotten her article on line by mid-afternoon.
Given the up close photos of people like Peduto standing right outside the house, and the fact that she got the story on line by around 3 p.m., and the fact that her report describes content of HRC's comments without attributing them as "according to (any guest)" it seems reasonable to conclude the Trib had both a photographer and a reporter as "invited guests" who were granted access to the private road and the estate itself, and that the reporter was inside, listening to HRC's talk.
Although no new photos have been added, the content and the headline of the Trib article have been updated, changed and/or expanded today - my comments were based on its original article. The quote you referred to was added in the update.
And to be very clear, my OP used yesterday's Trib's original headline - which the Trib also changed in the updated version today, and I referred to it specifically as the headline:
(Headline) "Hillary Clinton attends Fox Chapel fundraiser as poll numbers sag." I did not imply that both papers referred to the poll numbers. Again, I used the Trib's own headline as the lead for my thread - posters have been harshly criticized on DU for paraphrasing a headline from an OP's link, and included the PG's headline within the body of my post. I did not editorialize or change either headline.
I just found it interesting that The Trib would include them.
