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Retiring Republican has warning about Trump. A ferocious reporter — and now a best-selling author — he has built a reputation as one of the most prolific and multi-talented journalists on the beat, scoring scoop after scoop. For the last three years his fellow White House correspondents have honored hiswork with a streak of Merriman Smith Awards for Presidential Coverage under Deadline Pressure.
Tapper comes to CNN from ABC News, where he most recently served as senior White House correspondent, a position he was named to immediately following the presidential election.
In , he served as the lead political reporter for the coverage of the presidential election. He traveled to early voting states across the country for interviews with the candidates, including the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees, then-Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. It had a six-month contract and ended in September He then spent six months working for VH1 reporting on music and pop culture.
In his early days at ABC, he didn't find it easy getting on air. He said anyone who didn't miss greater depth, wider coverage, and more output shouldn't have been a print journalist in the first place. But he liked television — it could make stories more compelling, reached more people, there were more resources, and information was easier to access.
They went out the following night, and Brown said after that first date she knew something was going to happen. Source: Oprah Magazine. Sources: GQ , Politico.
Source: Esquire. It was there he learned the tougher the question he had to ask, the calmer the delivery had to be. He was described as " famously scrappy ," and his relentless grilling of White House spokespersons was an entertaining part of the briefings.
She told GQ , "It's not that he learns the facts and that he studies. It's that he wakes up in the morning so curious, and I think you can tell.
Source: Washington Post. And Tapper is sure Obama did not like him. He says he was a pain in Obama's ass and did not "drink the Kool-Aid. But he wasn't always left out in the snow. In his tenure as senior correspondent he won the Merriam Smith Memorial Award three times for his breaking of presidential news.
Tapper's thought to be the first person to win it three times in a row. It's the book he's most proud of and it took him years to write. It also opened his eyes to the military. He told Dartmouth Alumni Magazine , after interviewing two soldiers he came home and said to his wife Jennifer, "I've sacrificed nothing.
All I've done is pursue my own self-interests and tried to get ahead in the world for myself. And look at these guys—these are the guys who should get the attention. According to Slate, unlike other media personalities who sway one way or the other, Tapper's brand has been to stay neutral. In that way, he's "old school. His office is littered with failed presidential candidates from Henry Clay to Chris Christie.
The most indulgent thing he's ever bought is a signed copy of "Profiles in Courage" by John F. That same year, the conservative news site Breitbart described him as one of few mainstream reports whom both sides of the political spectrum could trust. Sources: Vox. According to Vogue, this was when " it began " for Tapper. Trump would play a big part in Tapper's career. But despite all of the reporting, it wasn't until Trump entered the ring that Tapper began to come into his own and become a " viral sensation.
Tapper says he's always been a " pain in the butt to people in power ," but in people were beginning to notice it. According to New York Times' media columnist Jim Rutenberg , Tapper's blunt delivery and fact-checking were cathartic for his audience. Tapper said it was nice to be recognized, but he realized it might not last. Source: Mediaite. Tapper is dogged. He fact checks before interviews and continues to ask questions until he gets an answer.
What was scheduled to be a 10 minute interview ran for 25 minutes without breaks. He took on Conway about CNN's coverage of terrorism, false reports on murder rates in the US, and an entirely made-up massacre.
He listed inaccurate statements made by Trump and said "false" after every one of them. In the skit, based on Fatal Attraction , Conway broke into Tapper's house, trying to get an interview.
His wife thought it was sexist, but Tapper was impressed to be a subject fit to mock. Beck Bennett is younger and handsomer than me. I feel like I got off scot-free, especially in comparison to Sean Spicer.
Memorably, he ended the interview, saying enough of CNN's viewers time had been wasted. But Miller wasn't done and he was so worked up, he had to be escorted off the premises , Business Insider reported. The event was applauded by many, said to be the first of its kind to be aired on television. It took him four years to write, working in the evenings after his children had gone to bed.
It went on to be a New York Times bestseller. Source: New York Magazine. In a speech he gave in , he said it was time to stand up for what was right. It doesn't look like his job will get easier anytime soon.
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