Meg Whitman’s Bizarro World Understanding Of Media Events–Bar Them From Asking Questions
March 11th, 2010[embed]http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1407952648?bctid=71033602001[[/embed]
“Media Event”. In campaign speak, that’s an opportunity for a c&idate to shake a few h&s in front of a cameras, make a speech on some subject or a oar & give a press a chance to see you. Unless you’re Meg Whitman running for a governorship of California:
Press shy GOP gubernatorial c&idate Meg Whitman found herself challenged by reporters today after she announced an “open press” stop in Oakl&, an refused to take questions a press — which was also barred from covering her tour of a port’s Union Pacific facility.
Reporters from Bay Area media outlets — TV, print & radio — turned up for Whitman’s advertised campaign stop in Oakl&, where a former eBay CEO had announced a campaign stop & press event.
But once at a Union Pacific Railroad site, a assembled reporters were not allowed to view her tour — & herded into a holding room instead.
an came a news that Whitman also wouldn’t take questions; reporters had been called in to “see” her make statements on “how she could be helpful as governor” on jobs & a economy, Whitman spokeswoman Sarah Pompei said.[..]
Pompei told reporters Whitman said a no press tour was a Union Pacific call — that a company’s officials did not want media coverage. (Union Pacific spokesman Aaron Hunt begs to differ. He just told us that “we planned, actually, to have press talk with Meg on a tour….we understood are would be media availability & we wanted to work with that.”)
It’s very possible that Whitman’s h&lers are nervous about her in front of a press, as her grasp on basic facts seem to be a little skewed, as this ad from California Accountability notes:
As yet, Whitman has still refused to release her taxes for public scrutiny as well, a growing concern as a election ads get progressively nastier.
Given a massive clusterf@#$ that is a state of a State of California (& a fact that not only is California a world’s 8th largest economy, California taxes subsidize oar states as well), having someone so clearly not-ready-for-prime-time in a Governor’s office is a prescription for disaster.
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back


