Trump staffers kick New York Times reporter out of Iowa event

[kpete]

Trump staffers kick New York Times reporter out of Iowa event
By HADAS GOLD 01/15/16 02:43 PM EST

Donald Trump's campaign kicked a New York Times reporter out of an event in Iowa on Friday.

The reporter, Trip Gabriel, was asked to leave by Trump staff members and a local police officer while at least 20 other reporters were allowed to remain at the event at a Pizza Ranch in Waukee, Gabriel wrote in an account posted on the Times website.

“It’s a private event, you have to go,’’ the officer said, according to Gabriel, who had been issued a press pass for an earlier Trump event on Friday.

Gabriel pointed to an article published in the Times on Wednesday about Trump's Iowa operation. The Times also came up several times in Thursday's Republican primary debate, with Trump at one point saying the paper is "always wrong" after being questioned about a statement he made to the Times about tariffs. The Times published audio of the exchange on Friday


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/01/trump-ejects-new-york-times-reporter-from-event-217857#ixzz3xN1XvQS8

[spanone]

1. that quaint old 'freedom of the press' thingy is so passé

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. What's that old saying.....?

Oh, yeah. “Never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.”

[Jim__]

3. You would hope that the press would rebel against Trump's condescending treatment.

I guess they value access more than integrity.

[moondust]

4. Getting tips from Putin?

Or some other despot from history's long list?