Posted on 08/13/2010 10:02:48 AM PDT by Nachum
White House reporters are keeping quiet about an off-the-record lunch today with President Obama — even those at news organizations who've advocated in the past for the White House to release the names of visitors.
But the identities of the lunch's attendees won't remain secret forever: Their names will eventually appear on the White House's periodically updated public database of visitor logs. The White House posts them with a three-month lag, so records of August visits won't be available until late November. (Although, since many of those invited already work in the White House every day, their lunch visit may not register.)
The Obama White House began posting the logs in order to settle a lawsuit, begun under the Bush administration, from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which sought the Secret Service's White House visitor logs under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Bush White House argued that the logs were technically owned by the White House, which isn't subject to FOIA. CREW attacked that view in federal court, arguing that the logs are subject to FOIA both because they are created by the Secret Service -- not the White House -- and because the public has a right to know who the president and White House staffers are conferring with.
And guess who filed briefs supporting that argument? Virtually every newspaper that covers the White House.
The Washington Post filed an amicus brief in in February 2008 arguing that the names of White House visitors should be released, and it was joined by the Associated Press, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones, USA Today, the Hearst Corporation, the New York Daily News, the Newspaper Guild, the Society of Professional Journalists, and a host of other news outlets.
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The list, ping
Not a surprising development. Didn’t Obama fire his Transparency Czar earlier this week?
“Round up the usual suspects”! MSNBC, NBC, NYT, AP, Politico, CNN Etc., Etc.
JournoList type coordination of 2010 mideterm election propaganda by the democrat party media.
The “news” stories have been set for the next 3 months by NBC, CNN. ABC, MSNBC, etc.
MSM getting their marching orders and talking points.
Can’t take the chance that the emails would be read. - Probably handing out marching orders.
It’s not called the fourth estate fer nuthin’!
It would be interesting and instructive to crossreference the attendees at this meeting with the JournOList membership.
The Journelite?
Yeah, every poster here gets it.
This was the WH briefing on what to say and how to STEAL the election and how to keep a straight face when the polling shows a wipe out but the dems manage to win anyway.
Hang them all.
Definitely. I’ll be waiting for the logs’ release. Thanks!
All good things come in time. Keep the dream.
JournoLost
“Ramadan involves fasting during the daytime, saying no to food, drink, smoking and sexual activities.”
It’s Ramadan, for the Muslim-in-Chief
Here’s the lineup of reporters who had lunch with Obama:
Ben Feller (Associated Press),
Jonathan Weisman and Laura Meckler (Wall Street Journal),
Michael Shear and Scott Wilson (Washington Post),
Caren Bohan (Reuters),
David Jackson (USA Today),
Carol Lee (Politico),
Peter Nicholas (Tribune Co.),
Margaret Talev (McClatchy)
Julianna Goldman (Bloomberg).
It wasn’t a lunch... it was a taxpayer funded propoganda planning session to rehabilitate the epic failure known as the Odumba$$ pResidency.
Next stop:
Fly to LA to support Boxer’s campaign.
The Obama White House began posting the logs in order to settle a lawsuit, begun under the Bush administration, from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which sought the Secret Service's White House visitor logs under the Freedom of Information Act.And guess who filed briefs supporting that argument? Virtually every newspaper that covers the White House.
The Washington Post filed an amicus brief in in February 2008 arguing that the names of White House visitors should be released, and it was joined by the Associated Press, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones, USA Today, the Hearst Corporation, the New York Daily News, the Newspaper Guild, the Society of Professional Journalists, and a host of other news outlets...
It's unclear, of course, whether reporters for any of those newspapers attended the lunch — because none of them will say....
Obama has met several times with columnists and television pundits for off-the-record lunches to discuss a variety of issues since becoming president. Today, he reached out to the White House beat reporters who file their papers' straight news stories....
More DNC-Media collusion. They don’t even bother to pretend this doesn’t happen anymore.
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