Kayleigh McEnany is a former White House press secretary and current host of Fox News’ Outnumbered. She also wrote the book. The White House, Beyond and For such a Time As This:
She answers our questions on sassy TV reporters building their “brand,” nasty anti-Trump hit pieces, the Twitter takeover, briefing binders, and the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Fun facts about the book include this: ABC reporter Jonathan Karl gave Kayleigh a copy his book at their first meeting. Front Row of the Trump Show. Und they claim Trump was an abominable self-promoter.
Discussing how Republican press secrecy face a hostile environment at work, while Democrat press secrecy are looking at a room of Democrats. Kayleigh said “When they talk to the press, it is a conversation with allies, with peers, with friends” and the White House Correspondents Dinner is pretty much the same, just with food added.
Talking about ways Republicans could fight persistent use of anonymous sources, we discussed how they might do so. Kayleigh stated:
Each anonymous source has an ulterior motive. The public must understand this. The reason why they are leaking is not random. I learned that anonymous leaking was currency when I came to DC. That is your currency with a reporter, and I saw this time and time again, and you would always know or suspect ‘this person is a leaker, this person is a leaker.’ And then there would be a glowing profile of an individual, or something good that would come out in a paper, and you would just know that they are leaking to people.
When The Atlantic unleashed their story claiming President Trump had allegedly called the war dead “suckers” and “losers,” the White House didn’t get much warning. “They had a few anonymous sources, and I gathered more than two dozen sources with their names on the record saying this never happened, but the two dozen named sources meant nothing over the sources that wouldn’t give their name.” “Is that the right way to do journalism?”
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