Hillary Clinton team denies Daily Mail reporter access to campaign coverage

[99th_Monkey]

Hillary Clinton team denies Daily Mail reporter access to campaign coverage

Clinton camp says they’ve been getting blowback from foreign outlets that want to be part of the pool but reporter says reasons are ‘varied and contradictory’

6/15/2015 * The Guardian * by Sabrina Siddiqui

The feud between Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the news media escalated on Monday, when the reporter designated by the traveling press to cover Clinton’s events here was denied access.

David Martosko, the US political editor at The Daily Mail, was scheduled as the so-called “pool” reporter for Clinton’s visit through New Hampshire. But when he arrived at the gathering spot for the traveling press corps on Monday morning, Martosko was turned away by a Clinton staffer who said the reporter was no longer the approved pooler for the day’s events.

Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill later offered what Martosko called “varied and contradictory” reasons for not allowing him to join the pool – a rotating group of news outlets that represent the entire press corps and put together reports on the president and presidential candidates that are then distributed to members of the media.

“We’ve been getting a lot of blowback from foreign outlets that want to be part of the pool and we need to rethink it all, maybe for a day, and just cool things off until we can have a discussion,” Merrill said, according to Martosko’s pool report.

[hootinholler]

1. The Mail while being a total tabloid

Published photos of the empty overflow areas during the kickoff.

I wonder if that had anything to do with it?

[840high]

2. I saw that.

[NewSystemNeeded]

13. I'm sure that didn't factor into the decision at all.

[closeupready]

3. I dislike much about the Daily Mail, but credit where credit is due,

they do NOT pull their punches. They run with just about every and any story that will sell.

Further, it's interesting that amidst charges that the domestic US media is colluding with the Third Way in her impending coronation, that the Clinton campaign is shutting out a right-wing news source of foreign origin. Clinton operatives know that the Daily Mail will spin every story in a negative light. So fine, go with the Guardian, lol.

[NCTraveler]

5. Daily Mail Headline If I Ever Hear One.

"Further, it's interesting that amidst charges that the domestic US media is colluding with the Third Way in her impending coronation, that the Clinton campaign is shutting out a right-wing news source of foreign origin."

Even the word count works for them.

[closeupready]

8. I've been a member of DU 3x longer than you, and w/4x as many posts.

But yeah, I'm a Daily Mail board troll.

[NCTraveler]

9. I never said you were a "Daily Mail board troll."

Not even sure what that would constitute. Not sure what I am suppose to think about your impressive post count. Not sure it is suppose to be a concern of mine. It was a great line you had. I mean great. As is your post count and time on du. I respect both even though I had no clue. Great "get off my lawn" moment. Have a little fun.

[closeupready]

10. ok, sounds good. wasn't the best weekend for me, so lol,

sorry if it seems like I'm lashing out for no reason. Peace.

[NCTraveler]

11. I have tried to have a little fun a couple of times today.

I fell flat every time. It's not you. It's my humor being applied to pixels. Even when I have read my lines back they aren't funny. I promise, I'm better in person. I have to be. lol.

[CJCRANE]

14. I agree. I like the Daily Mail for that reason.

There is no filter: they print pretty much any story they can get their hands on, which means they sometimes print interesting stories the other papers won't touch.

(And also the readers' comments. I like to see what the public are saying).

[truebrit71]

17. It is nothing more than a hate-filled rightwing rag...

And so far the only thing I agree with Hillary on...

[CJCRANE]

18. I disagree. I read the Guardian, Daily Mail, NYT, Der Spiegel

and as many other news sites as possible both conservative and liberal, foreign and domestic.

Each news site has its own slant and blind spots. You don't get the full story by just reading one or two.

I came to DU in the early Bush years when there was an attempt to censor news and found this to be the best news aggregator to get news and views from all over the world.

[truebrit71]

19. Do you read the National Enquirer?

Their journalistic standards are markedly higher than the Daily Heil....

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. No, they made an agreement with the Express to keep off each others' owners

When he told them about his so-called pact with Express owner Richard Desmond - which dates back to more than a decade ago - they registered amazement.

He explained that a deal had been struck between Desmond and one of his executives - Murdoch MacLennan, who was then managing director of the DMGT division, Associated Newspapers, that owns the Daily Mail - to refrain from publishing personal criticisms of each other.

Rothermere said: "I believe that Mr MacLennan... had lunch with Mr Desmond and reported back to me that Mr Desmond and himself had agreed that it was not in the interests of the respective groups to use the pages of our newspapers for mudslinging."

Lord Myners called it "an extraordinary incursion into editorial independence." Well, not quite, milord.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/dec/13/viscount-rothermere-richard-desmond1

So they will refrain from printing stuff, if there's something in it for them. They are the Fox News of the UK.

[CJCRANE]

21. It depends what you're interested in.

They do a lot of stories about Isis, for example, which may some may find interesting, others may think it's fearmongering.

There are other types of hard news stories that they also cover which the Guardian, for instance, often doesn't touch. They also have many more photographs and details of both hard and soft news stories, which some may prefer.

Like I said, you get a more rounded view if you dip into as many news sites as possible. And once you start doing that, you'll see how much each site ignores and what they tend to ignore compared to other sites.

[NCTraveler]

4. I love how she isn't just taking every camera as it comes.....

and is treating some of these outlets as they deserve to be treated. Good on Hillary.

Here are some of their current front page headlines from the Daily Mail.

"Off to a poor start! Bride close to tears after new husband gets so drunk he thrusts in her face during first-dance routine before falling on her... and has to be pulled off by embarrassed guests" Yes, that is a headline.

"Prison worker appears in court amid claims she had sex with 'Shawshank' inmate INSIDE jail and planned a hit on her husband before she helped killers escape"

"Hillary Clinton campaign denies access to DailyMail.com political editor as Monday's pool reporter in New Hampshire"

"Rachel Dolezal and fictitious 'dad's exodus': Newly uncovered interview shows her claiming she had a black father who fled the South because a white cop was hunting him"

"'His arm is gone!' Frantic 911 calls reveal grisly scenes after girl, 12, and boy, 16, have their arms ripped off by shark - as sheriff launches sea and air hunt for dangerous shark that attacked both children"

"Lady Gaga Slips Into a Thong Bikini in the Bahamas"

"'Antarctic UFO' spotted: ET-hunter claims to have spotted alien spaceship in the snow - or is it just a crevasse?"

"The average American woman weighs 166lbs - the same weight as the average MAN in the 1960s"

"Moment Kentucky police officer shot dead African man has he swung flag pole at him" <- I changed this in no way.

"'I'm addicted to sugar daddies': Woman reveals how she dumped the fiance she loved for rich older men... who have bought her a house, a Bentley and a pet PANTHER"

I think the editor gets incentives for word count on headlines. I do find it amusing how many have recently found a place in their heart for the overwhelmingly right wing media.

[Wilms]

6. I wouldn't blame anyone for that. n/t

[joeybee12]

7. Good for her...

The Daily Fail is absolute garbage

[One_Life_To_Give]

12. Freedom of Speech good, Freedom of Press?

On the one hand we defend the right of Racists, @#$-phobes etc. to speak the most vile things. Yet that other part of the First Amendment we dismiss so casually. In the long run where does allowing chilling practices upon the Press end?

I may not like the coverage but I will still defend the right of the Press, even those I don't like, to be allowed access to do their job. For without it the end will always be Tyranny.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. The Daily Mail is sleazy and is regularly on the losing end of libel lawsuits by a large variety of

people in politics and entertainment for false and disparaging claims made speciously. JK Rowling has sued them and won fairly recently, Diana Rigg, Elton John, various non entertainers, professionals, activists such as Parameswaran Subramanyam whom they claimed ate a Big Mac during a public hunger strike.
They are dishonest scum.

[okasha]

16. Good on Hillary.

The Mail's right down there with Midnight Globe. There's no reason for any candidate to accept a hack from that idiotic rag.