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Standpoint of somebody who is on a campaign working with the media, how do you look at that relationship and where it stands right now? >> i think the premise of peter's paper is right. twitter has dramatically changed the relationship between campaigns and reporters. everything you say or do, whether public, private, on a plane, it's out there, out there quickly without any edits. it's very problematic for dealing with reporters because you have to be on your guard at all times. you can't have a moment like we saw with kennedy, if you make a small mistake, you can have a do-over. because anyt...

Funded from the outside, but i think with all due respect to you, i think that's one of the -- we've seen this morning one of the reasons you are being recalled is the demeaning of the opponents of your gun control legislation. as -- i think you described them as liars and cheaters and i think that's one of the reasons you're in the predictment you are today. >> senator -- >> give the senator a chance to respond to that. >> you know, when you -- >> go ahead, senator. >> when you have petitions and we turned into the district attorney, i mean, over 30 incidents where there are forges, perjuries...

More youthful press corps and a journalistic reward structure in washington that often prizes speed and scoops over context campaigns are increasingly fearful of reporters and candidates and their aides, wary of young reporters and private conversation finding their way into the digital space are fencing themselves off from reporters. mitt romney spent three minutes answering questions from reporter last year in the middle east but they had little to report. the tension between media and romney campaign boiled over in this expletive-laced exchange. >> governor romney, do you have a statement a...

The press world works today with campaigns. >> many but one that sticks out was during the primary. a day when governor romney was in new hampshire. newt gingrich had been there earlier, he talked about his mother and he teared up. so mitt romney did town hall and talked about his father, and he would bring up his father very frequently on the campaign trail. in the middle of talking about his father, a man shouted out, don't cry. mitt said, i'm not going to cry. nothing wrong with that. he went on and did the rest of the event. a reporter who parachuted in for one event, not on the campaign t...

Journalistic actually having access the way though used to. mccain, when he ran said that the media were his base when he ran that 24 /7 access. i think people forget that. i think access is what is missing and it would be helpful and less of this twitter culture. >> you know that mccain thing seems so long ago. >> it seems 100 years ago. >> it was 13 years ago but people still had dial-up mow dumbs and nobody was walking around with iphones, twitter didn't exist. in this new culture, as a reporter, someone looking for the next macaca moment. what is your approach to the sort of building trust...