No, this isn't about religion, God, church or even anything particularly spiritual. This is nothing more than the approach that Hillary has taken as she works to pursue the presidency following an unbeaten trail. As she skates her way around the travails of campaigns, it might be worth investigating if the Clinton foundation has enough global connection to engineer earthquakes in Nepal, train wrecks in Philly and meltdown's in L.A., taking the spotlight off of Hillary and confirming that the Clippers are still just the Clippers. Stop smiling Donald Sterling!Today's non-Hillary news cycle tells about a 'Son's of Anarchy' like flash mob shootout in Texas in which 9 people died at the scene, with 18 others hospitalized. Meanwhile back in the newsroom, every news person has their eyes locked on television sets wondering who will be the FIRST network to get the Hillary exclusive, or will Hillary continue to stiff the media who keeps insisting that she can't get away with such an approach....can she?
In the past, being the first was a really big deal in the news business. Not a whole lot has changed in regard to gaining exclusive interviews, but a lot has changed as it relates to access. When the news media was the only method for getting your message delivered, the demand of catering to their invasive behavior loomed large. Now that Obama's Hope message (and internet approach towards delivery) Changed the game of politics, Hillary is following his lead and refining the model as well.
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Obama was the first to take his message to the average Joe or JoAnn when he began granting interviews to non-traditional media sources- the last if you will- after long absences from traditional media outlets. Lately, unless you are a presidential candidate with common desperation for traditional media outlets. it seems the last might be the first and the most likely connection that Hillary (our next POTUS frontrunner) makes with America during her campaign. As the traditional news reporters are watching the TV universe, the exclusive is more likely to first appear on Twitter'verse. Even the emails from her private server won't be released until 2016, a pace that the State Department will now dictate removing her from control of the release or culpability with further delay.
Who's To Blame?
News rooms with multiple screens blaring multiple news sources all at once are just as culpable to the demise of American politics as the proliferation of dirty money, especially in the eyes of Hillary who is pointing her admonition in both directions. When you keep a watch on the news like news reporters do, there becomes a certain inevitability to certain proceedings. Inevitably, all politicians have to endure the heat from the media as their litmus test of viability and their access to the news cycle. Except Hillary. Whether she wants the exposure or not, only death and disaster can pull her from the top of every news program.
Yesterday, according to her liking and planning, Hillary gave a few reporters an opportunity at a few questions, just so she can place perfectly contained and packaged messages on Iraq and her emails into the recent news cycle. Unlike several republican presidential candidates recently, Hillary did not struggle to deliver a concise message that will calm the flames from reporter's burning to put the heat on Hillary. Every question had a thorough and concise response that will replay like magic for the guaranteed soundbites that news stations need from Hillary.
Hillary has never struggled in the face of media, but this Hillary is seemingly content and intent on changing the way we do politics in America which includes finishing the immigration problem once and for all. Since Hispanic America will soon dictate a lot politically, a president who is truly prepared to win a general election without a plan for immigration is somewhat laughable. Only Jeb Bush seems to be aware of the joke so many republicans are making of their candidacy while trying to establish a platform of second class citizenship for immigrants. Tracking back to the center on immigration after the primary is a dead tactic that will not survive the voting booth if pro-immigration voters are leery of a president who is not supportive of our nation for immigrants.
For all of our social flaws, too many reasonable people remain in America for unreasonable presidents to get elected anymore. The presidential press core has relegated themselves into the category of unreasonably desperate to be first instead of being fair or accurate and not appearing angry simply because of lack of access. In the news business, if you can't get the first interview, you try to be the first to cause a fumble, which is the ultimate goal of every news station that chases after exclusive interviews and exclusive sound bites in the first place. YouTube and Twitter don't allow for question and answer, and are simply not exclusive enough for the mainstream media to control the message or ruffle the messenger. Hillary has decided that her need for notoriety is not the same as her need to share a message, which can be done these days via YouTube or Twitter. She has all the notoriety a presidential candidate could need. However, if she was short on notoriety, her current posture of conscientious dissent against the media is indirectly giving her more media coverage than she could have otherwise dreamed of.
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Every word she speaks now becomes instant lead off news just as her silence has been as well. When she needs to make definitive statements on important matters of significance, she does it in the midst of a scheduled event (rather presidential if you ask me) and keeps it moving without questions. News outlets that continue to anger themselves with not being the first, seem the last to recognize how they are being used as a tool for the Clinton's, of the Clinton's and by the Clinton's, who have enough support in the media realm to absorb the saliva from the wolves, hungry to get any taste of Hillary that they can, even a subordinate if necessary.
Hillary will probably duke it out with Jeb in the finals, but no one will ever throw political punches quite the way Hillary is throwing them right now. Call her the Mayweather of politics if you will because her approach is totally defensive. Thanks to Obama, she won't have the unblemished record of Mayweather, but she also won't have the main political opponent capable of beating her in the way either, since he's retiring under limited terms and seems poised to support Hillary's campaign. Left in Obama's wake is a manner of politicking that Hillary has observed closely. In some ways, she and Bill helped to shape the Obama doctrine that will gain a New Testament if Hillary continues with her coronation.
In fact, whether she wins or not, Hillary is already forcing anyone who hopes to beat her to adopt or counter the kind of change that potentially remakes our game called politics, since campaign finance reform, immigration, wage disparity and now drug addictions are all hot button Hillary issues. For that, she's won already.
Whatever she's doing to the media right now is purely a bonus.
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