{"id":73525,"date":"2020-03-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73525"},"modified":"2020-03-09T07:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:45:52","slug":"expectations-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73525","title":{"rendered":"Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elizabeth Warren campaign staffers abuse journalist who &#8220;didn&#8217;t support Warren&#8221; enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Politico reporter Alex Thompson, who was assigned by his editor to cover Warren&#8217;s campaign, posted screenshots of messages that Warren staffers have been sending him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some Warren campaign staffers don\u2019t have a good understanding of campaign journalism. <br>Not my job to \u201cactively support the candidate that you were assigned\u201d<br>It is my job to contact as many ppl as possible rather than just rely on what the campaign wants to give me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GjSDQ4i5ii\">pic.twitter.com\/GjSDQ4i5ii<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlxThomp\/status\/1236331136319619074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The part that surprised me ?  Emphasis added below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>One of the staffers chided him for not &#8220;actively supporting&#8221; Warren&#8217;s campaign while\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlxThomp\/status\/1236333097299345408\" target=\"_blank\">others<\/a>\u00a0told him to &#8220;eat s**t.&#8221;<\/p><p>Thompson explained, &#8220;Some Warren campaign staffers don&#8217;t have a good understanding of campaign journalism. <strong>Not my job to &#8216;actively support the candidate that you were assigned<\/strong>&#8216; It is my job to contact as many ppl as possible rather than just rely on what the campaign wants to give me.&#8221;<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What?  A reporter acting lilke&#8230;a reporter? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cynics among you might point out &#8220;that&#8217;s just when reporting among Democrats; the reporter is probably a Biden or Bernie supporter&#8221;.   And you have a point; if you&#8217;re not a cynic about the coverage of politics in this country, you&#8217;re not paying attention.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s nice to see the Warren Kidz&#8217; invincible entitlement getting even gently slapped down.  Looking at their Twitter feeds, it would appear to have been the first time it&#8217;s ever happened; we&#8217;re talking about kids who&#8217;ve never known anything but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63101\">Urban Progressive Privilege<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Warren campaign staffers abuse journalist who &#8220;didn&#8217;t support Warren&#8221; enough. Politico reporter Alex Thompson, who was assigned by his editor to cover Warren&#8217;s campaign, posted screenshots of messages that Warren staffers have been sending him. Some Warren campaign staffers don\u2019t have a good understanding of campaign journalism. 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