Two presidents, two female reporters and two revealing nicknames
This is the story of a 10-year-old St. Petersburg girl named Bonnie Harris, who would one day become a reporter covering the presidential campaign of George W. Bush. When Bush learned she was from Florida, he gave her a nickname: “Sunshine.”
Contrast that with a recent moment involving another female reporter and another American president. When Bloomberg News White House correspondent Catherine Lucey asked President Donald Trump a question he did not like, he shut her down with, “Quiet, Piggy.”
Two Republican presidents, two female reporters, two nicknames. And two very different visions of presidential character.
Related Knowledge Center: The White House vs. the press
Whether it’s the Des Moines Register’s publication of an unfavorable election poll, a routine edit of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, or the Associated Press’s decision in its authoritative stylebook to continue to use “Gulf of Mexico,” Donald Trump and the White House have used executive authority and legal reprisals in an effort to punish and suppress press coverage that runs contrary to the administration’s preferred narratives.
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