When is Republican Plan for McCleary? "None of your business"
From a news conference the GOP held this week in Olympia in answer to a reporter's question, straight from the lips of Senator Mark Schoesler, "It's none of your business and you will be the last to know."
Another reporter pointed out that the first reporter was just doing his job and yes, it is relevant.
Do contact the Senator if you believe that it is everyone's right to know the plan for fully funding public education in Washington State. He's from the 9th Legislative District, part of six counties including Adams, Asotin, Franklin, Garfield, Spokane, and Whitman.
Senator Mark Schoesler:
Office: 360.786.7620
Email: mark.schoesler@leg.wa.gov
http://markschoesler.src.wastateleg.org/contact-me/
https://www.facebook.com/brandikruseq13fox/videos/386027771749165/
Another reporter pointed out that the first reporter was just doing his job and yes, it is relevant.
Do contact the Senator if you believe that it is everyone's right to know the plan for fully funding public education in Washington State. He's from the 9th Legislative District, part of six counties including Adams, Asotin, Franklin, Garfield, Spokane, and Whitman.
Senator Mark Schoesler:
Office: 360.786.7620
Email: mark.schoesler@leg.wa.gov
http://markschoesler.src.wastateleg.org/contact-me/
https://www.facebook.com/brandikruseq13fox/videos/386027771749165/
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Mr. Theo Moriarty
"I am committed to providing Ninth District residents with accessible, responsible representation,"
"A representative government only works when those represented take an active part in the process. I'm here to serve you, and your direct input helps me do my job better."
What a tool. I can only hope that the voters in his district make him regret this response.
It's silly to blame this sort of behavior on Trump, and at the same time fail to recognize what Trump's innovation was -- using social media to dis-intermediate journalists altogether. Sure, you harumph at that, but maybe this guy's voters don't. Po3 is right that it might become common.
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The question in this case was sarcastic an accustory, making no effort to hide the reporter's bias. (It sounded a lot like a parent asking a teenager when he was going to clean his room.) I doubt the senator will suffer politically for brushing it off.
"Objective journalism" might be called another American illusion, crumbling in a time of disillusion. In Europe or elsewhere, it's simply known that media outlets have party affiliations, and that journalists are effectively party staffers. You wouldn't object to hear that Fox News is essentially a Republican Party spin machine. The other side perceives your preferred outlets to be Democratic Party organs, perhaps not without reason. It might even be healthier to admit the truth. The pretext of objective journalism, when it obviously isn't, creates a vacuum in which Macedonian college students can make a fortune on fake news.
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And I agree; objective journalism is long gone (and how objective was it ever?) But I agree; most journalists I interact with are professionals.
Even if the question were a sort of attack, the Senator's response was thoughtless, foolish, and false.
(parent to teenage son) "When are you going to clean your room? Today, or tomorrow, or when you're 30?"
But anyhow the more interesting thing is the ongoing press vs. Republican brawl. Trump in usual form said yesterday at CIA headquarters, "I have a running war with the media, they are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth ..." Meanwhile, on KUOW their news editor said local reporters have a verbal agreement to tag-team Republican politicians (which explains the immediate backup from other reporters when Shoesler slapped down the first guy.) The journalists are fighting for their livelihood, because Trump clearly thinks he doesn't need them, and if he succeeds in bypassing them, politicians up and down the line will adopt the same tactics (or maybe have already). Journalists are fighting to defend their position as information mediators and gatekeepers at a time when their esteem is low and a big segment of the population doesn't read or watch them to begin with, and the internet offers alternative communication channels.
Change is the only constant. Pull up a seat and watch.