Posted on 11/30/2004 8:10:57 AM PST by Roberts
Brokaw Astonished Over NYTimes Reporter Being Banned By White House Tue Nov 30 2004 10:09:36 ET
Outgoing NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw was asked on MSNBC's HARDBALL Monday if the Bush White House has been tough with the press corps, citing as an example of Dick Cheney stipulating no NEW YORK TIMES reporters on his trips.
Brokaw said, "I think they have been too tough.
"The idea that this White House has not given Tom Friedman a long, in-depth interview is astonishing to me. I have had a very good relationship with them, I have gotten to interview the President a lot. I have had access on the phone and other areas and I have been very vigorous in my discussions with them. But no reporter that I know covering national politics and the international policies that are of such great concern today know as much about them as Tom Friedman does and they have completely shut out the NEW YORK TIMES."
Brokaw = elitist.
Friedman supported the Iraq war, to his credit, but he always has to end anything positive with some sort of slam at Bush, just so his liberal wife and friends will still talk to him.
About time. The whole press corps needs to be rebalanced.
Drudge and Freerepublic should get seats since our audience is so large....
Journalists amuse me with the thought that they have the right to know anything about anyone at anytime. They seem to think they have the right to ask a question and we have an obligation to answer.
Brokaw's attitude is typical of yesteryear's media. The assumption that Friedman or the NY Times deserves access because they are who they are is telling.
Just a friendly reminder -- Brokaw was booed by Oklahoma and Nebraska fans when it was announced at the OU/Nebraska game in Norman that he was in attendance.
Since then the Dems in this area have been praising Brokaw and dissing OU/Nebraska fans for booing. Been hilarious to read some of their letters to the editor and their spin on Brokaw and how fair and balanced he is -- right there you no he is anything but fair!
Why should the WH reward the NYT for their pack of lies and political agenda? They tried their damndest to derail Bush's reelection. What do they expect?
I have banned the whole New Yourk Slimes from my house.
Who knew Brokejaw was still alive.
Hasn't the President effectively kicked Helen Thomas to the curb as well?
Maybe if the NY Times would purge some of the communists out of their staff they might be a little more friendly.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Thanks! I'd forgotten.
He's asking to be lionized by the Times for his retirement.
Not a bad business plan.
The NYT gave up it's prestige and went partisan. Who cares about the NYT, they're losing power fast. In a few years, they have fewer readers than The Globe.
Brokaw is the least biased of the Jennings, Rather, Brokaw troika. But still biased. Which is why he thinks Friedman, who writes from the same viewpoint that the troika shows on the air, knows so much. I suspect that neither Friedman nor the big three personally know anyone who voted for Bush.
I remember watching Lynn Cheney on CSpan perhaps 10 years ago, she said the NYTimes was irrelevant.
Condi Rice cannot keep a straight face when confronted with moronic questions and statements. Ergo, no Tom Friedman interviews. The NYT is of little importance in getting out the administration's message. They just distort (or lie, if they think they can get away with it).
I'm sure he's just as astonished at how insignificant the MSM has become to the average American as well. The times, they are a changing Tom.
Bigtime's thumbprint.
And was he astonished when x42 banned a reporter from the White House? I think it was Paul Sperry.
I guess it's just in his nature to meddle in other people's business, whether it's his neighbor's use of privately owned land, or Dick Cheney's choice of who he will confide in.
The Administration owes the media nothing but a good trap block and a stiffarm.
No, she is 'retired' but for unknown reasons they still allow the old hag into the White House, and in 'her' seat in press conferences.
I don't understand it at all.
When they decide that distinction does not serve their readership; does not serve the truth; maybe they can rejoin the club.
Yeah, they're all a bunch of clymers, if you ask me.
YEAH! I say ban the whole commie lot of them (except FOX of course!) Their antagonism and accusatory questions over the past 4 years have been more than enough to ban them!
And then again with "Who do you work for....."?
LOL. I hadn't heard about this. Reconfirms my faith in the judgment of middle America. Thanks.
I think Brokaw and the rest of the old media first felt the winds of change when, at Bush's first press conference, Bush did NOT allow Helen Thomas the first question. I do not expect the old media to die easy, but do I wish it would hurry up and die.
After their conduct in the past campaign, what would you expect? The NY Slimes is getting just what it deserves. Now we just need to take out the 3 networks. If they are going to do everything in their power foul or fair to destroy us, then we will just have to return the favor.
Though I don't care for the concept of royalty in any venue, please accept my apologies. It's been a bad morning and I guess this one was my straw.
Didn't a taxidermist put Helen Thomas on wheels and they just drag her in and out?
I have, yet again, new respect for this White House.
The NYT is to journalism what France is to pro-democracy in the world today.
If Tommy BrokeJaw speaks in a forest and the N Y Times prints fish wrap in a forest and no one notices, does anyone care??? Hell no!
They need to shut out the NY Times as well as the LA Times, Washington Post and at least CBS.
guess what? there are people in this state (SD) who want Brokaw to run for a gvt spot. the socialist commie Daschle voters have been squalling about this for a couple years now.. no lie. God protects us from all evil.
Yeah...and W won. Hint. Hint.
Hey...I don't know...maybe he's doing something the majority agrees with.
Ya think?
Naw, can't be. It's just that the media didn't work hard enough against him.
They might look at what happened to Helen Thomas.
So, they expect the dummy in the White House to think it is required that he serve as their punching bag to facilitate their efforts at bringing him down.
Maybe they should get a clue - this President is no dummy.
Well it sure helps ease the blood-shot eyes trying to read all the wonderful thoughts on FR.
I thought the main Idea of a free country was that you could talk to who you want and not talk to others. Bad mouth the President and you go to the back of the class.(ask Helen Thomas)
Watch out now there newbie. The Doc can do whatever he wants. He's got a helluva a lot more respect around here than you'll probably ever have.
The headline is incorrect. Thomas Friedman is not a "reporter"!
He is a columnist with views so self-contradictory I suspect (and maybe so does the White House) that he suffers from some kind of mental illness.
If the NYT assigned him to the White House press corps, I'm sure he'd be treated like any other reporter.
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