Networks Erase Footage Of Trump Hotel Tour

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"Major TV networks banded together to erase video of Donald Trump conducting a tour of his new Washington, D.C. hotel after they say the Republican nominee’s campaign broke with rules determining press pool coverage of his events and physically restrained an ABC News producer.

Trump on Friday invited only photographers and video cameras to accompany him on a tour of his newly-opened Trump International Hotel, after delivering a speech that had been billed as a "major statement" on his birtherism but only touched on the topic for 33 seconds. As Politico reported, pool rules require that a pool producer accompany any campaign event that will be documented visually.

Yet ABC producer Candace Smith wrote on Twitter that she was “physically restrained” from joining the tour. Once the other networks caught wind that any editorial presence had been barred from the tour, their Washington bureau chiefs decided in an emergency

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Um, yeah, this story actually paints the media in a bad light, not Trump, and makes them look petty and biased (as rational people already know they are).
 

vraiblonde

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Another take on it:

Media Outraged After Trump Tricks Them To Cover Endorsements From Military Heroes

The media showed up to the presidential ballroom of the new Trump International Hotel on Friday morning expecting Donald Trump to take questions about whether he still questions President Obama’s birthplace.

Instead, they got more than a half hour of a variety of military heroes — generals, medal of honor recipients and a gold star wife — expressing support for the Republican nominee. And it all aired live on the cable news networks.


:lmao:

And now they're stamping their little feet in anger:

18 months into this cable networks are still letting Trump hijack them for free airtime — ad time — by promising a “major announcement’
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) September 16, 2016

This is a f–king disgrace… https://t.co/YtSjlt57Os
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) September 16, 2016

“We got played, again, by the Trump campaign.” — John King just now on CNN.
— Matt Viser (@mviser) September 16, 2016

Once again, the American news media gets totally played by Trump. Wall-to-wall coverage. We’re all guilty.
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) September 16, 2016

Jake Tapper calls it a “political rickroll.”
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 16, 2016

HILARIOUS!!!
 
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