Posted on 02/10/2011 8:24:10 AM PST by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) – On Tuesday, the office of First Lady Michelle Obama sponsored several conference calls featuring administration officials discussing Mrs. Obama's “Let’s Move!” campaign to combat childhood obesity but “with listen-only lines for the media,” according to The Washington Daybook. On Wednesday, Mrs. Obama personally conducted a conference call for “online media” that was “by invitation only,” according to the Daybook.
Traditionally, conference calls that public figures in Washington, D.C. hold for the media--which, obviously, are designed to get media attention for the public figure--allow the reporters who join the call to ask at least a few questions.
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Don't you get it CNSNews? No questions. Ever.
Any “reporter” who calls in for this travesty has outed themself as a stooge.
Thou shall not Question thy Betters.
Don’ get uppity, cracker
How sad, what journalism schools have churned out for the past 30 years?
What didn't they understand about the "listen only" part?
You VILL knot ask ANY awkward questions of zee furst Wookie!
What’s not clear in the story is whether reporters knew ahead of time that they would be passive attendees. A “listen only” session shouldn’t necessarily preempt a (low-level) reporter from attending, but no reporter worth his salt would subject himself to this crap treatment if they were led to believe that it would be a participatory session.
Mark Levin was saying the other night that Hillary had gotten in trouble in the past on something called “open meetings” problem. Anybody else hear that, and know more? Thanks
Michelle Antoinette is at it again! Can’t be troubled by the riff-raff.
Who drew the short straws to get that assignment?
Could you imagine if Laura or Barbara Bush tried something like this? There would be outrage and a mass boycott by the MSM. More hypocrisy.
Could you imagine if Laura or Barbara Bush tried something like this? There would be outrage and a mass boycott by the MSM. More hypocrisy.
Somebody explain to me how this isn’t propaganda. Leni Riefenstahl would be so proud.
This is pre-campaign image making related to 2012.
She is raising her profile a bit at a time preparing her entrance into outright campaign mode. These empty events soften up the polls and to burnish her celebrity status and public image, beyond being the Mom In Chief.
Whatever she says will be news, of a sort anyway, so reporters should call in. But when they give their report, they should emphasize that questions were not allowed. and that they are wondering why Mrs. O is unable to do more than make proclamations.
Let them eat.. Okra! (/Moochelle)
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