Thursday, March 28, 2024

Trump Acolyte Omarosa Added to NABJ Panel and Journalists Are Pissed

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*Omarosa Manigualt has a way of pissing people off when all they have to do is just hear her name.

So you only imagine what the reaction was when journalists meeting in New Orleans learned she is supposed to be in their midst on a panel.

Well, put it this way. The situation is being described as “heavy drama” at the NABJ/National Association of Black Journalists conference in New Orleans after organizers decided to add the very unpopular Trump aide to a panel.

“The majority there don’t want her involved. It’s heavy drama — even the moderator is refusing. Everyone sees it as extremely offensive,” a source told informed Page Six.

New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was scheduled to moderate a panel on police brutality on Friday, which featured Valerie Castile, Sandra Sterling, and the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb. Hannah-Jones and Cobb pulled out of the panel, and Bounce TV’s Ed Gordon stepped in to serve as the event’s moderator.

Cobb told Page Six that the reason for pulling out “wasn’t simply the addition of Omarosa. It was that she was added at the eleventh hour and it was unclear whether we would be able to discuss substantive issues regarding the administration and its policing policies. Also, the panel was very disorganized, and basic things like format were not clear.”

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Omarosa & April Ryan

There’s also the fact that journalist April Ryan (CNN commentator and American Urban Radio Networks bureau chief) has distanced herself from Manigault since she became an aide to President Donald Trump. As we reported, Ryan said on Angela Rye’s podcast that Manigault — who works in the public liaison office — had tried to sabotage her career.

“She was going around telling Sean Spicer not to call on me [during press conferences]. She’s calling other people, newsmakers, sources . . . trolling my Twitter . . . She wanted to kill my career.”

Ryan added:

“When you try to kill me and my career because you want to advance yourself, because you are now making money after not making money from selling cellphones, and now you’re making $180,000 a year, good for you. But you know what? Karma comes back. And I told her, ‘The sad thing about it is: No one likes you.’ ”

So far there’s been no response/comment from Manigualt or the NABJ

 

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