2016 Postmortem
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This issue has become an unhealthy obsession by the media.
This is why Hillary Clinton doesnt do press conferences
http://qz.com/767056/this-is-why-hillary-clinton-doesnt-do-press-conferences/
Tim Fernholz
4 hours ago
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters after meeting with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 14, 2016.
Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters in July 2016, but it's not a press conference. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Political press conferences are pointless, and mostly about media showboating.
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With social media, candidates dont need to rely on reporters to convey their views. That in turn means that stories that break news are rarely produced by press conference. So why the ongoing obsession with press conferences? Could it have something to do with a need to justify the money being spent by mainstream news organizations to keep reporters on the campaign trail, versus the exclusive content they take away from that investment?
The sanctity of the press conference is now such that the gap between press conferences is now considered a story in and of itself. In particular, many in the media seem miffed at how many days it has been since Hillary Clintons last press conference, which took place in Iowa on Dec. 4. Apparently the political press doesnt count Clintons Aug. 5 press availability at a National Association of Black Journalists meeting, perhaps because the right reporters werent there. (Ironically, the Aug. 5 event included an exchange regarding her reticence to hold press conferences.)
Since then, Clinton has done numerous one-on-one interviews with news outlets including the Washington Post, Vox, NBCs Meet the Press, and CNNs Anderson Cooper 360°, among others. In those interviews, shes been asked pointed questions about policy and politics and, yes, her e-mail server and her handling of classified information while at the US State Department.
And yet the fetishization over her scant appearances at press conferences continues. Its enough to have made us want to go back to the Dec. 4 press conference and see what we were missing..............{not much at all}
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)...when she has something to say. How many different ways do they want her to say the email "scandal" was a mistake and she regrets the decision? Nobody gets investigated like Hillary.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)this. Like the article author alludes to,the Beltway Pundtocracy feels slighted and they are pissed cause they didn't get a chance to ask their question's about their created false equivalency. That being,were are your missing e-mails,when are you going testify in front of Chaffetz,when are you going to answer Gowdy about Bengazi,when are you going to close down your foundation,and so on and so on.
Amazed how so called Educated people can ask suck stupid questions. Just imagine all the Journalism Professors asking themselves what did I do wrong here.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Those feigning ignorance to this fact are doing just that, feigning. The quickest way someone can out themselves is to say Clinton needs to hold more pressers.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)Why not just say what you mean?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)You obviously mean it to mean something else entirely. I don't understand your weird slang. What are you attempting to try to say?
Zorro
(15,749 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)post game interview of sports figures. Everybody kind of knows what's going to be asked, and everybody knows what's going to be said by the interviewee in response.
SSDD, for the most part.