Journalism 101
Watch closely, American media. This is how you do it.
NPR is smarting from being referred to as National Republican Radio and other pejoratives, so last week Mary Louise Kelly asked Mike Pompeo a question he didn't like about Iran's nuclear weapons program. Specifically, Kelly wanted to know how to stop it now that we're virtually at war with Iran. After they were off the air, Pompeo screamed and cursed at her and called her a liar for not warning him that she wasn't going to ask about his favorite color and who he liked in the Super Bowl. Because it's not Fox & Fans. To show that he's the boss of them, Pompeo kicked a different NPR reporter, Michele Kelemen, off his flight to Kazakhstan -- where another nasty woman, Aegerim Toleukhan, kept asking him about his alleged support for "press freedom." It should have been an extended item on the network news, but they ran out of time, what with Kobe still being dead and a snowstorm someplace.
This morning, a press briefing on UK trade negotiations with the EU was scheduled at 10 Downing Street, but a flunky of Boris Johnson tried to exclude reporters from broadcast outlets and newspapers he regards as hostile. All the other reporters present chose to walk out together. All of them. And it was widely reported, because the British, lacking a First Amendment, don't take press freedom for granted. Also it's extra-crunchy delicious that someone who made a good living for years filing bullshit from Brussels is now at war with the press.
We still have much to learn from the old country, I am ashamed to say.
NPR is smarting from being referred to as National Republican Radio and other pejoratives, so last week Mary Louise Kelly asked Mike Pompeo a question he didn't like about Iran's nuclear weapons program. Specifically, Kelly wanted to know how to stop it now that we're virtually at war with Iran. After they were off the air, Pompeo screamed and cursed at her and called her a liar for not warning him that she wasn't going to ask about his favorite color and who he liked in the Super Bowl. Because it's not Fox & Fans. To show that he's the boss of them, Pompeo kicked a different NPR reporter, Michele Kelemen, off his flight to Kazakhstan -- where another nasty woman, Aegerim Toleukhan, kept asking him about his alleged support for "press freedom." It should have been an extended item on the network news, but they ran out of time, what with Kobe still being dead and a snowstorm someplace.
This morning, a press briefing on UK trade negotiations with the EU was scheduled at 10 Downing Street, but a flunky of Boris Johnson tried to exclude reporters from broadcast outlets and newspapers he regards as hostile. All the other reporters present chose to walk out together. All of them. And it was widely reported, because the British, lacking a First Amendment, don't take press freedom for granted. Also it's extra-crunchy delicious that someone who made a good living for years filing bullshit from Brussels is now at war with the press.
We still have much to learn from the old country, I am ashamed to say.
posted by Buttermilk Sky at 6:26 PM
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