She has only been a White House press secretary for 83 days, but Kayleigh McEnany’s “affection” is already getting into the shoes of the media greats, one of whom on Monday described her as a threat to the journalistic “credibility”.
According to a former senior editor and professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, the combative press secretary “is trying to undermine the credibility not only of individual journalists or media, but also of journalism itself.”
Encouraged by fans for her style and regular challenges to questions from journalists, such as a Monday about whether President Trump believes it was a good thing that the North won the Civil War, critics have claimed it is evasive and too quick to notice. media mistakes.
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Bill Grueskin rapped McEnany for his tactics.
“When faced with a tweet or quote that could hurt Trump, she tries to undermine the press rather than address the essence of the story. That is why she comes armed for briefings with multiple examples of press flaws, some valid, others fictional, and draws White House reporters to a noxious tit for an eye, “the professor and former editor wrote in the Wall street journal and Bloomberg.
His main complaint seems to be McEnany’s criticism of the media, a tactic he said he uses to get past questions he doesn’t like.
“Players would call that episode ‘the counting.’ McEnany demonstrated that his goal is not to answer these questions directly, or even engage in a dialogue on journalistic ethics. It is to throw so much straw on the media’s radar that even the most critical basic is deprived of meaning, “snorted the professor.
See the Grueskin column here.
