Opinion: A Bernie Sanders devotee makes a bumpy transition from commentator to campaign aide
By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic March 21 at 2:47 PM Like many in today’s media-politics universe, David Sirota has an email list to which he blasts his latest accomplishments. Sometimes he signs off with a little flourish: “Rock the boat, David.”
Some background here: Sirota worked two decades ago for Sanders when the Vermont independent was serving in the House of Representatives — a “formative experience,” Sirota said in a recent email blast. Other political gigs — campaign aide to former Montana governor Brian Schweitzer ,and a stint at the Center for American Progress, for instance — filled the years before he became a full-time journalist in 2006.
— David Simon March 19, 2019 Actually, it’s not too clear exactly how and when Sirota transitioned from being a journalist to a Sanders campaign aide. We requested an interview with Sirota about the timeline, though he asked that the discussion be off the record. The call ended quite promptly after the Erik Wemple Blog insisted that the whole discussion occur on the record. There is nothing so sensitive about this ruckus that cannot be discussed in the cheery light of day.
In response to the objections from the Guardian, Dovere updated his Atlantic story to add this paragraph: Capital & Main, the nonprofit, California-based news outlet that published investigative work by Sirota, tells the Erik Wemple Blog in a statement: “In a story on [the Atlantic’s website] it was reported that former Capital & Main staff writer David Sirota was advising Bernie Sanders for several months before leaving Capital & Main. Without commenting on the accuracy of that report, Capital & Main wishes to be clear that we didn’t know that Mr.
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