Posted on 10/20/2009 3:50:15 PM PDT by Justaham
On Tuesday, another prominent media member challenged the White House strategy of attacking the Fox News Channel.
This time up at the plate was ABC's Jake Tapper who asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs during today's gaggle:
It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one?
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Censorship is coming.
Will the media welcome it or fight it?
I did not see it either. “I do not know what I do not know”. Glad it was posted again.
I would think that some of the mega-egos in Hollywood will also rebel against being told how to write their scripts.
This issue first came up during the Clinton administration.
At the time, World Net Daily was leading the charge for alternative news outlets. Congress (or their "organization of journalists" as you refer to) decided that WND was not an accredited news organization and refused to give them press passes to the Congress galleries. Up to that point, WND was getting daily passes, but they wanted the same accredited passes that the NYT, WaPo, NBC, ABC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, et. al., were getting.
WND was being singled out at the time because of the reporting of Paul Sperry. Sperry reported on several hot issues for Clinton: 1) Lewinsky, 2) Sperry embarrassed Clinton during a White House Easter Egg event for the families of WH staffers, 3) the missing Gore emails and missing backups, 4) the intentionally downgraded phone systems in the WH that can't show which specific telephone placed a specific call.
WND was refused permanent accreditation, and a fight ensued. WND eventually won a permanent press pass. They probably didn't realize it at the time, but they were legitimizing the alternative media for everyone else to come.
Today's result? Obama chooses a Huffington Post "reporter" to ask a question at a White House press conference.
-PJ
You’re welcome, FRiend.
Jake, Jake, Jake... Here’s a helpful hint from Wise old Ape... folks like you ended up on the same boxcars as the rest of us. A bit later, maybe. But, on the car all the same. Think, boy!
It’s easy for a Gibbs to use ad hominem attacks on Glenn and Sean. Not so easy for him to state just how they are incorrect in what they assert. The left wants to use subtle (and not so subtle) signals to discourage viewers from turning on an “uncool” or “politically correct” show. Their goal is to silence the truthtellers. FReepers won’t fall for it, but we really need to work on our friends and neighbors.
Done -- and fixed.
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The communist defector said, the reporters think they will be safe, but they will be among the first to fall. They won’t see it coming. The government will come after them swiftly. And they won’t understand it when it happens, because they will think they will be safe.
What was his name, again?
Help me!
“Tapper’s days at the WH numbered after this?”
Tapper was the first reporter to challenge Gibbs concerning the issue of “transparency” in the first weeks of this administration.
I thought back then he wasn’t going to be with ABC much longer - but here it is now - October. He’s still there.
Golitsyn?
No, that wasn’t his name, but thank you.
He worked in India, left there. Lived in Canada. Worked at a university.
If my husband was up, he could tell me. His first name was Yuri, I believe. But, that is a common name. He went by another, western name.
Anyway, he gave a series of talks, wrote a book and explained how the communist system worked. And he talked about how the communists used the media.
And sometimes I truly believe that Obama and company is playing the media like a violin.
Yes, thank you! You’re a gem!
Remember them lambasting Ari Fleisher and Tony Snow about not answering their questions? Remember the bullying and innuendo regarding anything President Bush ever did or said?
Too bad the Ignorant American People allow themselves to be controlled by the Sycophant Libtard Media this way.
The dictator decides what's appropriate, Jake.
It’s so embarrassing that this little swine Gibbs graduated with my same class at N.C. State.
At the very least, Michele can bench more than Hugo.
you ARE joking right?
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