Madeleine Westerhout - What's the deal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read one small blurb that I can't find now about how she was trying to expand her role in the WH which annoyed the more experienced staff. So no one is really sorry to see her go. The WPo Reporter who leaked is in some serious doo-doo though methinks

Methinks you’re a moron. The reporter is just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read one small blurb that I can't find now about how she was trying to expand her role in the WH which annoyed the more experienced staff. So no one is really sorry to see her go. The WPo Reporter who leaked is in some serious doo-doo though methinks

Methinks you’re a moron. The reporter is just fine.

+1 Pretty much no matter how sleazy and self-serving, reporters keep their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read one small blurb that I can't find now about how she was trying to expand her role in the WH which annoyed the more experienced staff. So no one is really sorry to see her go. The WPo Reporter who leaked is in some serious doo-doo though methinks

Methinks you’re a moron. The reporter is just fine.

+1 Pretty much no matter how sleazy and self-serving, reporters keep their jobs.

Yeah, ok. The reporter did nothing wrong. Westerhout is an idiot. Trump is vile and cannot even manage to show basic decency to his children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read one small blurb that I can't find now about how she was trying to expand her role in the WH which annoyed the more experienced staff. So no one is really sorry to see her go. The WPo Reporter who leaked is in some serious doo-doo though methinks

Methinks you’re a moron. The reporter is just fine.

+1 Pretty much no matter how sleazy and self-serving, reporters keep their jobs.

Yeah, ok. The reporter did nothing wrong. Westerhout is an idiot. Trump is vile and cannot even manage to show basic decency to his children.

Westerhout acted stupidly, and the reporter is sleazy.

[Anonymous]

Journalists are not sleazy when they report on these types of stories. This woman was personal assistant to the most powerful man on the planet, her office was next to the oval and had a serious amount of access.

She should know that NOTHING is ever "off the record." Any serious person who interacts with the media knows this. She was stupid and drunk and should have kept her loose lips shut. Now she's rightly out of her job.

This journalist did his job. Nothing more. Nothing less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read one small blurb that I can't find now about how she was trying to expand her role in the WH which annoyed the more experienced staff. So no one is really sorry to see her go. The WPo Reporter who leaked is in some serious doo-doo though methinks

Methinks you’re a moron. The reporter is just fine.

+1 Pretty much no matter how sleazy and self-serving, reporters keep their jobs.

Yeah, ok. The reporter did nothing wrong. Westerhout is an idiot. Trump is vile and cannot even manage to show basic decency to his children.

Westerhout acted stupidly, and the reporter is sleazy.

Sure, the reporter was sleazy and Westerhout was stupid, but there's nothing wrong with how Trump treats his children. Especially when you have people in the latest mass shooting thread blaming absentee fathers for mass shootings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read one small blurb that I can't find now about how she was trying to expand her role in the WH which annoyed the more experienced staff. So no one is really sorry to see her go. The WPo Reporter who leaked is in some serious doo-doo though methinks

Methinks you’re a moron. The reporter is just fine.

Methinks you probably have ethical standards in line with those of the reporter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Journalists are not sleazy when they report on these types of stories. This woman was personal assistant to the most powerful man on the planet, her office was next to the oval and had a serious amount of access.

She should know that NOTHING is ever "off the record." Any serious person who interacts with the media knows this. She was stupid and drunk and should have kept her loose lips shut. Now she's rightly out of her job.

This journalist did his job. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Hey, I don't disagree that the journalist was doing his job--that's how they operate. Just another example of their sleazy ethics. Same for those journalists who report for the National Enquirer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Journalists are not sleazy when they report on these types of stories. This woman was personal assistant to the most powerful man on the planet, her office was next to the oval and had a serious amount of access.

She should know that NOTHING is ever "off the record." Any serious person who interacts with the media knows this. She was stupid and drunk and should have kept her loose lips shut. Now she's rightly out of her job.

This journalist did his job. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Hey, I don't disagree that the journalist was doing his job--that's how they operate. Just another example of their sleazy ethics. Same for those journalists who report for the National Enquirer.

What are you babbling about? There’s no evidence she asked for anything to be off the record. You’re upset that journalists report on this shit show, no more.

[Anonymous]

Obviously somebody wanted her out of the WH and stabbed her in the back. Affair?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Journalists are not sleazy when they report on these types of stories. This woman was personal assistant to the most powerful man on the planet, her office was next to the oval and had a serious amount of access.

She should know that NOTHING is ever "off the record." Any serious person who interacts with the media knows this. She was stupid and drunk and should have kept her loose lips shut. Now she's rightly out of her job.

This journalist did his job. Nothing more. Nothing less.

It's off the record if you remember to say "This is off the record," even while drunk. That said, I think a good journo would not have burned a source like that, so the story is confusing. My sense is that the journalist wasn't planning to leak, but the statements were used by someone else who wanted her out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Journalists are not sleazy when they report on these types of stories. This woman was personal assistant to the most powerful man on the planet, her office was next to the oval and had a serious amount of access.

She should know that NOTHING is ever "off the record." Any serious person who interacts with the media knows this. She was stupid and drunk and should have kept her loose lips shut. Now she's rightly out of her job.

This journalist did his job. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Hey, I don't disagree that the journalist was doing his job--that's how they operate. Just another example of their sleazy ethics. Same for those journalists who report for the National Enquirer.

What are you babbling about? There’s no evidence she asked for anything to be off the record. You’re upset that journalists report on this shit show, no more.

Without knowing her relationship to this journalist - sometimes things being "off the record" is assumed especially if lines are crossed and you're socializing. Unless the journalist is a gossip columnist and finds the gossip itself to be a scoop, why would you burn a 25 year old like that just because she forgot to say the magic words? It's not news that she's catty about Tiffany or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Journalists are not sleazy when they report on these types of stories. This woman was personal assistant to the most powerful man on the planet, her office was next to the oval and had a serious amount of access.

She should know that NOTHING is ever "off the record." Any serious person who interacts with the media knows this. She was stupid and drunk and should have kept her loose lips shut. Now she's rightly out of her job.

This journalist did his job. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Hey, I don't disagree that the journalist was doing his job--that's how they operate. Just another example of their sleazy ethics. Same for those journalists who report for the National Enquirer.

What are you babbling about? There’s no evidence she asked for anything to be off the record. You’re upset that journalists report on this shit show, no more.

A true, respected journalist wouldn't waste time quoting gossipy info from an insider who'd been drinking. If you think I'm babbling, makes absolutely no difference to me. Have a great day!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Journalists are not sleazy when they report on these types of stories. This woman was personal assistant to the most powerful man on the planet, her office was next to the oval and had a serious amount of access.

She should know that NOTHING is ever "off the record." Any serious person who interacts with the media knows this. She was stupid and drunk and should have kept her loose lips shut. Now she's rightly out of her job.

This journalist did his job. Nothing more. Nothing less.

It's off the record if you remember to say "This is off the record," even while drunk. That said, I think a good journo would not have burned a source like that, so the story is confusing. My sense is that the journalist wasn't planning to leak, but the statements were used by someone else who wanted her out.

Yup. Another West Wing employee with a parabolic microphone. A good reporter does not burn sources.

What's with all the nasty remarks about Tiffany? She is not who we should hate. She has not inserted herself into government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Journalists are not sleazy when they report on these types of stories. This woman was personal assistant to the most powerful man on the planet, her office was next to the oval and had a serious amount of access.

She should know that NOTHING is ever "off the record." Any serious person who interacts with the media knows this. She was stupid and drunk and should have kept her loose lips shut. Now she's rightly out of her job.

This journalist did his job. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Hey, I don't disagree that the journalist was doing his job--that's how they operate. Just another example of their sleazy ethics. Same for those journalists who report for the National Enquirer.

What are you babbling about? There’s no evidence she asked for anything to be off the record. You’re upset that journalists report on this shit show, no more.

Without knowing her relationship to this journalist - sometimes things being "off the record" is assumed especially if lines are crossed and you're socializing. Unless the journalist is a gossip columnist and finds the gossip itself to be a scoop, why would you burn a 25 year old like that just because she forgot to say the magic words? It's not news that she's catty about Tiffany or whatever.

A smart source would not assume that any conversation with a journalist - eve while drink - is off the record, unless you say it is off the record. You're an idiot if you think that your drinking buddy cares about more than they care about a good story. It's not unethical to report about this stuff, either, I don't think. No it's not a NICE story of a story about substantive politics but it's a story about how people inside the WH know what the president's character and relationships are like. That's newsworthy.

signed
former journalist