There were pleas for favors, as when a Democratic Party official emailed Chuck Todd, the “Meet the Press” host, for tickets to an exclusive NBC soiree. (“I can’t even get every producer on my cable show into the party,” Mr. Todd replied.)
There were gripes about coverage, with party aides dismissing the MSNBC host Steve Kornacki as a “hipster pit bull.”
And there was disdain for the frequent flattery by television journalists. When Fox News sought permission to sponsor a Democratic primary debate — “Please know that you are always welcome at Fox,” an executive wrote — the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, seemed unimpressed.
“Boy,” Ms. Wasserman Schultz wrote to an aide hours later.
There were gripes about coverage, with party aides dismissing the MSNBC host Steve Kornacki as a “hipster pit bull.”
And there was disdain for the frequent flattery by television journalists. When Fox News sought permission to sponsor a Democratic primary debate — “Please know that you are always welcome at Fox,” an executive wrote — the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, seemed unimpressed.
“Boy,” Ms. Wasserman Schultz wrote to an aide hours later.