| | | | | Trump leaves traveling press behind | | A new low in relations between Donald Trump and the reporters who cover him for a living? Tonight Trump began speaking in Laconia, NH while the roughly 20 members of his traveling press corps were still at the airport. Not only that — Trump bragged about the media's absence. And the crowd ate it up. CBS's Sopan Deb transcribed Trump's remarks this way:
"I have really good news for you. I just heard that the press is stuck on their airplane, they can't get there." [APPLAUSE]
"I love it. So they're trying to get here now, they're going to be about 30 minutes late. They called us and said, 'Could you wait?' I said, 'Absolutely not.' " [APPLAUSE] | | | Sure enough, they were 33 minutes late. "To be clear: Traveling press is arranged and organized by the Trump campaign," NYT's Nick Corasaniti tweeted. Per CNN's Noah Gray, the reporters arrived at the event site two minutes before Trump's speech ended. Gray's counterpart on the Clinton campaign trail, Dan Merica, noted: "HRC didn't wait for her press corps a few times when we flew on two planes. But she never publicly bragged about it." | | | Trump's speech was still widely covered because TV crews and other reporters were already there. But the traveling press corps is a vital part of campaign coverage. After the speech, the frustrated embeds and photographers flew from NH to DC. A reporter aboard the flight emails: "This is yet another example of Trump's total mistreatment of the press and disregard for past precedent in the coverage of presidential nominees." | | | Context for Trump's behavior? | | Two of Trump's children are under a lot of media scrutiny right now. I bet Dad noticed. "In the past 24 hours, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have cut off interviews when pressed for answers on tough questions," CNNPolitics' Eric Bradner noted earlier today.
If you haven't read Ivanka's testy interview with Cosmo yet, check it out here. As for Donald, Jr., he told a Philly radio station that if GOPers acted like Hillary Clinton, the media would be "warming up the gas chamber." Huh? The campaign later said he was referring to capital punishment, not the Holocaust... | | | "Trust in media" hits a new low, and Trump takes credit | | Yesterday Gallup's data showed a steep year-over-year decline in Americans' overall trust in the media. The drop was fueled by Republicans, as explained by Dylan Byers here.
>> Trump on the radio this morning: "The media has openly been dishonest and I look at that poll and I said, 'Wow.' Because every speech I talk about it... I am really proud to say that I think I had a lot to do with that poll number." Trump called out CNN once again... and today he singled out 10/9 debate co-moderator Anderson Cooper... | | "Birtherism" is the original sin of the Trump campaign. The conspiracy theory vaulted him to political prominence five years ago. Now Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway and others close to Trump say he believes Obama was born in the United States. But Trump himself still won't say so. Asked by the WashPost's Robert Costa today, Trump dodged: "I'll answer that question at the right time. I just don't want to answer it yet."
Shortly after 10pm, campaign spox Jason Miller issued a statement saying Trump "believes that President Obama was born in the United States." But that's not the same as Trump saying the words. Until or unless he does, Trump is trying to have it both ways. He's well aware that many of his ardent supporters doubt the president's legitimacy. CNNPolitics' Daniella Diaz has more here... | | | I'll be talking about all of this on CNN's "Early Start" Friday morning, starting at 4:30am... | | | Scroll down for more of the day's political media news... | | | The first NFL game live-streamed on Twitter was "met with largely rave reviews" on Thursday night, CNNMoney' Ahiza Garcia reports. The stream was "free of major glitches, and the quality seems to rival HD even on bigger screens." Read all about it here... | | | Tweets about the Twitter integration | | -- Newsletter champion/CNNMoney boss Ed O'Keefe: "Ok, I get it. Watching #TNF on my phone and live tweeting is cool." (I second that -- once you actually see it in action, you "get" it...)
-- WSJ's Jason Gay: "NFL on Twitter is like asking TV to broadcast its own death."
-- The Wrap's Oriana Schwindt: "Some advertisers who bought spots in Twitter's steam: Netflix (Luke Cage), Paramount (Jack Reacher)… It's interesting because I'll see an ad that was on the broadcast start to play on the stream and be abruptly cut off and replaced by another"
-- Nine more games will stream on Twitter this season... | | | The more experimentation, the better. This Twitter integration is long overdue. That said -- 98% of the people who watched tonight's game watched it on a big-screen TV. Or was it 99%? We'll see... | | | Fallon gets physical with Trump | | | You're going to see this scene a thousand times on TV Friday morning: | | | Jimmy Fallon's sit-down with Trump on "The Tonight Show..." Coming just a few days before Clinton visits Fallon... That'll be on Monday... | | From my POV, Trump's appearance on "The Dr. Oz Show" was a success for the campaign: Though he wasn't really being transparent, he was acting transparent. (NYT's James Poniewozik called it "placebo transparency.") The implicit message of the last two days of Oz coverage was: "Trump has nothing to hide." Well, at least not about his health...
So what will Trump's next made-for-TV, made-by-TV moment be? Will he go on "Squawk Box" or "Cavuto Coast to Coast" or "Shark Tank" to reveal his taxes? Mark Cuban and Chris Sacca would love that... | | How did Dr. Mehmet Oz look in all of this? Brian Lowry says Oz "found himself over his head, wading into health-related issues surrounding the presidential campaign... The host generally steered clear of logical follow-up questions that would have made the appearance anything more than an infomercial." Read Lowry's full review here...
-- Lowry emails a postscript: "I'm beginning to wonder if the toxic environment surrounding this election has reached a stage where the benefits for these lighter, entertainment-oriented venues in booking the candidates isn't worth the headaches..." | | | Oz started today's Trump show by saying, "We've also invited Secretary Hillary Clinton, and she is considering our invitation." He repeated the point later in the hour... | | | Guardian U.S. shedding a third of staff | | | Frank Pallotta reports: "The Guardian is about to make major cuts to its U.S. operation, reducing staff by 30%... Roughly 50 jobs will disappear out of about 150 across editorial, commercial, and administration, according to a source inside the meeting." Wednesday was the five-year anniversary of Guardian U.S. But "the paper as a whole has been tightening its belt." Read Frank's full story here... | | -- "The FBI has imposed new restrictions on its agents' ability to masquerade as reporters following an uproar over the impersonation of an Associated Press journalist, but the agency has stopped short of ruling out the practice as news organizations had wanted..." (The AP)
-- On the cover of Time mag this week: Samantha Bee, Seth Meyers and co. "The New Politics of Late Night..." (Time)
-- Invitation/warning: I spent some time behind the mic for Peter Kafka's Recode Media podcast. Here's the episode... (Recode) | | | Renee Montagne's departure as "Morning Edition" co-host has started this domino effect, all announced by NPR today: "Rachel Martin, currently host of Weekend Edition Sunday, will be joining David Greene and Steve Inskeep as co-host on weekday mornings. Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR's South America correspondent, will be picking up the mantle at Weekend Edition Sunday. And David, currently co-hosting Morning Edition from Washington, D.C., will be moving to the West Coast." Read more... | | | How Glenn Beck's boosterism of Ted Cruz may have hurt him | | "Glenn Beck's dreams of building a dominant conservative media empire are faltering amid a tangle of lawsuits, financial challenges, plunging on-line readership, firings and political feuds," Ken Vogel and Hadas Gold write in this intriguing story.
"Now a lawsuit claims that perhaps Beck's biggest bet of all — his endorsement of Ted Cruz's presidential campaign — further undermined his appeal." Read the rest here... | | | Sunday on "Reliable Sources:" Gary Johnson | | | Right now Gary Johnson is averaging 9% support in the national polls that the Commission on Presidential Debates will use to determine debate invites. Since he's far from the 15% support he needs, what is Johnson's plan? The Libertarian party nominee will join me on Sunday's show... Live at 11am ET... | | | "Trumpism" over conservatism? | | In this story, Dylan Byers highlights a trend we've seen throughout this campaign cycle: Trump's supporters changing their opinions on key conservative issues in order to support or defend the Republican nominee.
"Viewpoints and policy proposals that were once anathema to them are now accepted and even celebrated. And that phenomenon has split the conservative media," Dylan reports.
"It would seem to be easy for these folks to say, 'I support Trump, but idea X or policy Y is foolish,'" Rich Lowry, the editor of the conservative National Review, which has opposed Trump's candidacy, told him. "Most of them seem determined to be 100 percent in the tank, though."
"I don't know what it will take conservatives to realize they are being scammed," said Stuart Stevens, a top Romney 2012 strategist. Read more... | | | Trump: "I have no interest in a media company" | | | Via Robert Costa's aforementioned Post interview: "Trump said he has never had a conversation about launching a venture with Roger Ailes or other prominent right-wing media figures. 'No, never did,' he said. 'I want to win the presidency, and I want to make America great again. It's very simple. I have no interest in a media company. False rumor.'" | | | The "I can't believe this is a headline" headline of the day | | Via CNNMoney's Laurie Segall and Aimee Rawlins:
"Peter Thiel denies he's talking to Donald Trump about Supreme Court job"
They write: "Sorry to disappoint, but Chief Justice Peter Thiel probably isn't in the cards. A story in the Huffington Post Thursday morning cited sources who said Donald Trump planned to nominate Thiel to the Supreme Court if he wins the election. 'Huffington Post's sources are lying,' Thiel spokesman Jeremiah Hall told CNNMoney. 'The truth is Peter hasn't had any conversations about a Supreme Court nomination and has no interest in the job.'"
Bet Thiel didn't think he'd be denying THAT a year ago! | | "I confess, I'll never be the showman my opponent is, and that's OK with me. Just look – look at the show he put on with Dr. Oz today..."
--Hillary Clinton on the stump today, noting Trump's televisual advantage... | | | ICYMI, Brian Lowry emails: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is terrific in "Snowden," but this is really one of those cases where drama can't hold a candle to reality. Oliver Stone's movie isn't bad, but it's pretty pale next to "Citizenfour," Laura Poitras' 2014 documentary. Read more from Brian here... | | -- Chloe Melas sat down with Chelsea Handler... She says she was not expecting to see such a vulnerable side to the quick-witted talk show host... Handler said she's not focused on making people laugh anymore, she wants to "change people's lives." Interview produced by Abigail Brooks...
-- Via Lisa France: "America's Got Talent" crowned 12 year old Grace VanderWaal a.k.a "the next Taylor Swift" as winner...
-- More from Lisa: Folks should know by now that they cannot beat Kanye West in a war of words. He had a stinging retort for Kid Cudi when that rapper tried to come for him on Twitter... | | Surprise at Trump's event: an aspiring reporter | | | While Trump's traveling press corps wasn't feeling much love from the candidate tonight, there was a fan who warmed the hearts of the reporters on board the campaign bus. Noah Gray tweeted this: "Before press corps leaves Laconia, 6th grade student 'Izzy' who wants to be a reporter comes on our bus to ask us Qs." NBC's Ali Vitali added: "This was the best part of today. Can't wait to see her on the trail someday!" | | Tell us what you think... | | | Send us your feedback about this newsletter -- the good/the bad/the ugly -- to reliablesources@cnn.com. We'll be back tomorrow! | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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