Air Force One, after landing at Joint Base Andrews on April 21. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 24 at 4:15 PM Traveling with President Trump isn’t doing the trick for BuzzFeed these days.
The withdrawal will not hobble the domestic travel pool, according to Todd J. Gillman, Washington bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News and a board member of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
News outlets are constantly weighing the benefits of traveling with the president. The argument against: It’s pricey and, depending on the administration, access can be limited and perfunctory. Plus: the president’s rage-tweets, his frequent madcap Q-and-A sessions, his Fox News interviews — heck, the Mueller report — leave an ample information trail for news organizations who are disinclined to travel.
All that said, it surely qualifies as a retreat. It trails by three months a round of layoffs in January that eliminated 15 percent of BuzzFeed’s workforce, including more than 40 of its approximately 250 journalists. “I’m confident that we’ll continue to do distinctive work on the biggest stories, and punch above our weight,” Editor in Chief Ben Smith wrote to his colleagues in an email. The site also cut its podcast production squad last fall.
ErikWemple Good for you, you stopped feeding the bear. BuzzFeed BuzzFeedNews Now if only others would stop.
ErikWemple There crushed!
ErikWemple I'd bail too...following a lunatic must lose it's luster over time
ErikWemple Buzz feed must check its sources andvet its reports to be correct in the first place, then complain
ErikWemple What is the traveling expense too high? The 1.5 million payoff funds shown in FEC records for the 2016 election dried up? drawandstrike
ErikWemple You can go to Attica, same class of people !
ErikWemple No more lies
ErikWemple If only his dad would have pulled out
ErikWemple Pulled out or asked to leave?
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ErikWemple Yeah, Buzz!
ErikWemple The first domino
ErikWemple UnfollowTrump
ErikWemple For several years running, Trump has vilified the press causing increased security concerns and death threats. He has called them the enemy of the people With documents, testimony and interviews, the Mueller Report tells us they were reporting facts. Damage still done.
ErikWemple I mean really what the heck does anyone learn that is constructive. The potus is a moron unsuitable for political office PERIOD. GOOD MOVE. BuzzFeed BuzzFeedNews
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ErikWemple R U SURE IT NOT JUST ABOWT THE SMMELL?