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AP: Obama ‘Limiting Press Access in Ways That Past Administrations Wouldn’t Have Dared’
http://www.theblaze.com ^
| april 1, 2013
| Jason Howerton
Posted on 04/01/2013 2:27:33 PM PDT by lowbridge
Its raising new questions about whats lost when the White House tries to make an end run around the media, functioning, in effect, as its own news agency.
Mike McCurry, who served as press secretary to President Bill Clinton, sees an inclination by the Obama White House to self-publish, coupled with tactics I never would have dreamed of in terms of restricting access for independent news organizations.
What gets lost are those revealing moments when the presidents held accountable by the representatives of the public who are there in the form of the media, says McCurry.
Obama himself took note of complaints about limited access in his jokes last month at the Gridiron dinner, an annual event where political leaders, journalists and media executives poke fun at one another.
Some of you have said that Im ignoring the Washington press corps, that were too controlling, Obama said. You know what, you were right. I was wrong and I want to apologize in a video you can watch exclusively at whitehouse.gov.
Three days later, it was no laughing matter when the White House live-streamed on the Internet Obamas meeting with his export council and allowed just one reporter in the room.
Still, the White House rejects the notion that it is turning to new media it can control at the expense of the old, instead describing an all-of-the-above strategy.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: msm; obama; obamapress; press; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: lowbridge
Yeah? So what? The MSM is still in the tank for Obonzo.
To: lowbridge
Obama’s second term will be more like a traditional presidential term. He got the honeymoon treatment the entire first four years by the liberal MSM. Typically a President (Pubbie or ‘Rat) gets a pass for a few months early on then the media begins to ratchet down ... indicators are Obama is going to be held to a different more critical standard by the media this time around.
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04/01/2013 3:38:44 PM PDT
by
BluH2o
To: lowbridge
Step 217 on the slow, torturous path to our being a turd world hell hole with nobama as
dick tator for life.
Havin' fun yet? No? Go drink some more Change flavored Kool-Aid.
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posted on
04/01/2013 3:51:19 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Free Republic: faster than a speeding bullet!)
To: lowbridge
And yet state-controlled media still protects him and bows to his every whim.
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posted on
04/01/2013 4:16:24 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Obama could sh>t down the mouth of these so-called journalist and they would brag about how good it was. These people are never going to turn on this man so don't get excited about this article.
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posted on
04/01/2013 4:35:56 PM PDT
by
kempo
To: lowbridge
Hey, AP! This is YOUR guy! You carried his water and shilled for him. So STFU.
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posted on
04/01/2013 4:55:28 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: lowbridge
“Revealing moments” about the president get “lost?” Exactly who is losing the oh so revealing moments?That's what i thought..
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04/01/2013 5:23:59 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
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