ElectionLine Podcast On Breaking Through The Noise With Ex-Biden Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, Not So Super Tuesday & Ice Cream Power Moves
01.03.2024 - 16:45
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“It’s not as simple anymore as sending the president out to stand behind the podium, letting the news media cover it and calling it a day,” former White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield says on today’s Deadline ElectionLine podcast about the reality of the 21st century press paradigm that even the most powerful person in the world battles. “That worked in 1992, that doesn’t work in 2024,” she adds.
Every president since George Washington has fought to get their message out, and every president has complained about how selective, to put it politely, the media can be when it comes to what is consequential and what is trivial. In an America bursting with information and disinformation outlets, that communication between the Commander-in-Chief and the country’s citizens may be fighting more noise than ever before.
That reality renders traditional forums and even potential game changers like Super Tuesday primaries a dull version of what they used to be – this election year more than ever.
A year out of the White House, ex-MPA spokesperson Bedingfield is now a CNN contributor. Yet, even now, on the other side of the rope line, Bedingfield, as she told the ElectionLine podcast this week, is still aware of how hard it
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