Corgan in Washington Times on Donald Trump and the Press
Michael Corgan, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was recently interviewed on President-Elect Donald Trump’s tendency to keep the news media at bay during his candidacy as well as during the days following the 2016 United States presidential election.
Corgan was quoted in a November 10, 2016 article in The Washington Times, entitled “Concerns Grow Of Press Kept At Bay During Donald Trump Presidency.”
From the text of the article:
However, shunning the news media as president carries substantial risks, said Michael Corgan, a political science professor at Boston University’s Pardee School.
“Donald Trump is in for a surprise because he’s going to be in the spotlight all the time like he never has been before,” said Mr. Corgan, an expert on the U.S. presidency.
Shutting out the press not only risks alienating the public, he said, but also creates a news vacuum that political opponents or competitors will fill.
“Everyone in Washington wants power and Congress doesn’t want to be seen as a Russian Duma. Those people are going to fill the vacuum and then he’s going to have problems getting anything through,” said the professor. “Trump is gong to have to learn to deal with the press or else he’s going to cede power for much of the agenda setting to the Congress, even if it’s his own party.”
You can read the entire article here.
Corgan’s Iceland and Its Alliances: Security for a Small State (2002) was used as a briefing guide for officers at the NATO headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic. He taught at the University of Iceland in 2001 on a Fulbright fellowship and was invited to return in 2006 and again in 2014. He is a Founding Partner of the Center for Small State Studies at the University. His writings on Nordic security have also been published in Swedish and Icelandic. He is also associated faculty at the University Of Lapland (Rovaneimi, Finland) and a member of the University of the Arctic Thematic Network. You can read more about him here.