{"id":3984,"date":"2017-01-27T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2017-01-27T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T17:02:24","slug":"rolling-stones-matt-taibbi-white-house-will-shut-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/01\/27\/rolling-stones-matt-taibbi-white-house-will-shut-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone\u2019s Matt Taibbi: the White House will ‘shut out the press’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Alex Bregman<\/a>\u00a0(yahoo.com)<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor Matt Taibbi spoke to Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga about his new book, \u201c<\/span>Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus<\/a><\/span>,\u201d a compilation of his reports from the 2016 campaign trail and new analysis of what\u2019s happened since Donald Trump\u2019s election.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taibbi spoke with Golodryga about how\u00a0Trump has transformed political news coverage<\/span>. He said, \u201cTrump\u2019s main innovation as a politician has been to turn American politics into a reality show, and he\u2019s been extremely effective at doing that. And it\u2019s completely changed the entire landscape of the media<\/span>.\u201d He continued, \u201cWe\u2019ve almost forgotten how to cover the other real story: about policies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

His advice for journalists covering President Trump: \u201cWe\u2019re almost entirely focused on this changing- every-second soap opera that\u2019s going on, that swirls around Donald Trump and that\u2019s to his advantage. I think what we have to do is focus on hard-core specific serious policy stuff as much as possible and try not to get in the circus reality that he\u2019s distracting the press with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Taibbi, however, fears that at some point the Trump White House will shut out the press corps. He told Golodryga, \u201cI think what\u2019s going to end up happening is that the press is going to be basically frozen out of any access to the White House.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Taibbi, however, said he doesn\u2019t see that as necessarily a bad thing for the media. He said, \u201cThey\u2019re going to have to retreat towards what\u2019s really their natural posture, which is to be an adversarial body. I think in a way that will almost be a positive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Taibbi also talked bout Trump\u2019s ability to get around the usual news media. He said, \u201cPeople dismiss Donald Trump because he\u2019s ridiculous, because he\u2019s impulsive, because he tweets in the middle of the night, but he\u2019s come up with a lot of innovations that are really quite brilliant, whether it was intentional or not.\u201d He continued, \u201cHe\u2019s kind of the Martin Luther of news. He\u2019s bringing information directly to voters. He\u2019s bypassing the church of conventional wisdom. That\u2019s us in the media.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Taibbi ended with a dire prediction for the next few years. He told Golodryga, \u201cI didn\u2019t predict Donald Trump happening, but I saw a long time ago that America was losing faith in its institutions. That they were losing faith in the press, in the government \u2014 and nothing that\u2019s happened in the last couple of years has brought us any closer.\u201d He continued, \u201cWe\u2019re only more atomized and more divided than we were before. I think it\u2019s hard to be optimistic that anything is going to get resolved in the next four years. I think it\u2019s only going to get weirder and worse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Alex Bregman\u00a0(yahoo.com) Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor Matt Taibbi spoke to Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga about his new book, \u201cInsane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus,\u201d a compilation of his reports from the 2016 campaign trail and new analysis of what\u2019s happened since Donald Trump\u2019s election…. Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}