GUEST BLOG / By Carl Swanson, editor-at-large, New York Magazine--The Trump campaign has long been determined to put the mainstream media in its place. The courtiers and Hench people surrounding the once and future president have always complained that he is not treated with anything like the deference, much less the adulation, they believe he deserves. Since the election, the press has, logically enough, descended on Palm Beach — or at least just across the causeway in West Palm Beach, where the hotels are more affordable — to source up and cover the transition. But mostly, as media columnist Charlotte Klein reports, they have been shut out: Mar-a-Lago has always been a members-only club, but now it's a Secret Service–protected fortress, and anyone attempting to curry favor with the government-in-waiting knows better than to be caught talking in public to a reporter. (Just ask Todd Blanche, who was papped by OK Magazine having lunch with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, a photo that was shown around like a warning.) It's likely a taste of what is to come: Trump’s comms director, Steven Cheung, is already directing his contempt ("fucking dummy") at members of the White House Correspondents Association's admittedly feckless unofficial press pool in Palm Beach. But at least the weather is nice.
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