#57 Margaret Talev on the White House Press Corps
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On February 17, 2017, President Donald J. Trump tweeted that the American news media is the enemy of the people. This was an escalation from the rhetoric candidate Trump used along the campaign trail continually rebuking the mainstream media as purveyors of fake news. The President's disdain for the media made it no surprise when he said that he would not be attending last week's White House Correspondence Association Dinner. The event is a long-held Washington tradition that celebrates the free press of the United States and honors the work of journalists.
So what's it like to be a journalist covering a President who is so openly antagonistic to your profession? Is Donald Trump's disdain for the media as fierce when he's behind closed doors as it is when he speaks at rallies? And what is it like to go from covering the Obama White House to that of Donald Trump?
In this episode of The Road to Now, we get the answers to these questions and more in our interview with Bloomberg White House Correspondent Margaret Talev.
For more on this episode, visit our website: www.TheRoadToNow.com
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| 0:47.0 | On February 17th, 2017, President Donald J. Trump tweeted that the American news media is the enemy of the people. |
| 0:51.5 | This was an escalation from the rhetoric candidate Trump used along the campaign trail, |
| 0:55.8 | continually rebuking the mainstream media as purveyors of fake news, |
| 1:01.4 | often going as far as singling out individual journalists and their news outlets, and encouraging the angry crowds at his rallies to join in the abuse. The president's disdain for the media |
| 1:06.3 | made it no surprise when he said that he would not be attending last week's White House |
| 1:10.5 | Correspondents Association |
| 1:11.7 | dinner. The event is a long-held Washington tradition that celebrates the free press in the United |
| 1:16.6 | States and honors the work of journalists. The highlight of the event is normally the roasting of the |
| 1:22.2 | president by a celebrity guest and the roasting of the press by the president. This year's highlight was an appearance by |
| 1:29.2 | famed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who declared that a free press |
| 1:34.6 | is crucial to American democracy. Today on the road to now, we welcome Bloomberg White |
| 1:40.7 | House correspondent and White House correspondent and association vice president, Margaret Talib, to discuss her recent interview with the president and what it's like covering the Trump White House. |
| 1:55.0 | Margaret Talib, welcome to The Road to Now. |
| 2:00.4 | Thank you. Nice to be on the road to now. Margaret, we've had to The Road to Now. Thank you. |
| 2:01.0 | Nice to be on the road to now. |
| 2:02.6 | Margaret, we've had this interview on the books for a few weeks, and Ben and I were really excited to speak with you, and we have many topics we want to discuss. |
| 2:11.3 | But Monday, you and your colleague, Jennifer Jacobs, had the opportunity to sit down with President Trump in the Oval Office |
| 2:18.3 | for a wide-ranging newsmaking interview. Could you maybe tell us how that came about? And what was the |
| 2:25.9 | scene as you walked into the Oval Office? Yeah, it was a really interesting experience. It actually |
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