Posted on 07/01/2009 8:42:05 PM PDT by Justaham
The press corps might be starting to sour on Barack Obama’s administration.
At a press conference today, Helen Thomas and CBS’s Chip Reid got into it with Robert Gibbs over how the administration has been prepackaging media events.
First Reid asked why the questions for Wednesday’s town hall on healthcare were being preselected. After Gibbs tried to dodge that question a few times, Thomas became involved, saying, “We have never had that in the White House. I’m amazed that you people … call for openness and transparency.”
Thomas said that the administration was trying to control the media, and she pointed out how they coordinated questions with the Huffington Post at a press conference. Thomas is not the first journalist to question the White House’s coordination with the Huffington Post. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank also took the White House to task for the coordination.
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Too funny. Li’l 0jugears gets b-slapped by the WH dinosaur.
The good news is fewer and fewer people are buying what they are selling. Look at the TV ratings.
The three networks’ 6:00 news is looking more and more like the Obama Show. And, not coincidentally, those “As Seen on TV” ads are creeping into the weekday news...
“There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and there is no Izvestiya in Pravda.”
The old girl asked a valid question and I give her much credit for her longtime experience as a reporter.
She’s old enough to see thru the fraud that bammie is and the un-intelligent answer that was given. bammie has no experience in foreign policy along with his ummmms & aaahhhsssss..... and she frauded him out,
thanks Helen.
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