Journalist removed from Colorado Republican event for 'unfair' reporting

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Source: The Guardian

Sun 7 Apr 2024 10.06 EDT


A politics reporter from the Colorado Sun was removed from the state Republican party assembly this weekend because the state party chair Dave Williams claimed her reporting on the party was “very unfair”.

The reporter, Sandra Fish, who has covered politics since 1982, received a text early morning on Saturday from a Republican party organizer saying she was no longer invited to attend the assembly. Fish went anyway, receiving a credentialed pass at the door until she was asked to leave by security about an hour into the event.

Video of the removal was captured by other journalists in attendance. The Colorado Republican state party chair, Dave Williams, is currently running for Congress in the state’s fifth congressional district. Fish has reported on the state party sending out a pro-Trump mailer in the district that attacked his primary opponent in the race.

Williams was elected party chair in 2023 after supporting conspiracy theories that Trump won the 2020 election and he introduced a resolution in the state house in 2022 to thank a state representative and others who participated in the 6 January insurrection. He also tried to include the “let’s go Brandon” phrase as part of his name on the 2020 ballot.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/07/journalist-ejected-from-colorado-republican-assembly

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[ificandream]

1. Cry babies.

[4lbs]

2. How dare she use their own words and policies against them? That's "unfair" !

[usaf-vet]

3. A long ago quote from my dad. Quote "never get in a pi$$ing match with some one who buys ink by the BARREL.

[maxsolomon]

8. Au contraire. That's precisely the strategy.

Cut off legitimate, professional reporters and control the narrative.

The RW didn't build its own alternative media for nothing.

[usaf-vet]

9. Of course, 30 years ago, when my dad worked on multiple newspapers, his point was reality.

Now, of course, you are right.

What will it be in 2025 if the GOP wins. Say the wrong thing go and straight to jail?

[niyad]

4. sighhhhh. I see that ole davy is just as much of an asshole as his

brother wayne is. brother wayne (now former council member, gods be thanked)`is what the yard signs called "the developers'dream." It was not meant as a compliment. And now thin-skinned crybaby davy is running for lumpy lamborn's seat. I tnink I can have as much fun with davy as I did his nasty brother.

[appleannie1]

5. If they think her telling the truth is unfair I bet they will find out how unfair she can be after

that little stunt. You should not piss off the media if you want good coverage. And to do it in front of every reporter in the place is not real smart either.,

[MissMillie]

6. Other reporters managed to capture her ouster

Glad to see that.

It's probably more damaging than anything Ms. Fish would have revealed.

[Aristus]

7. "Very un-FAIR!"

The battle cry of the cry-babies.