Friday, July 06, 2007

What is off limits to a campaign reporter

An interesting piece from Eat the Press about a journalist covering the Hillary Clinton Campaign in Iowa.



"Pool reporter Patrick Healy attached this addendum his report:


"Please note: I asked the campaign if your pool reporter could attend these private events, at least the next one in Davenport. It was told no - that the Clinton political team had decided that these events should be private. I argued that these events were newsworthy events and that we were entitled to have a single pool reporter there, at the least, and also noted that our media organizations were expending significant resources to have reporters here - and that the press corps should not be restricted to only covering the same 6 rallies. I'm told the campaign would take my request and argument under advisement; it might help if other reporters and producers made similar requests.""



It begs the question of what if anything is off limits to a reporter.You would expect that even in a highly media managed campaign,the Cllinton camp would wish to generate as much publicity as possible

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