On the record an televised.
It’s the least they can do...so they did it.
The AP should go and take a telephone to broadcast the event.
Go to the press conferenced. Announce that you don’t accept the rules and that anything Holder says they will print.|
Then film security tossing them out and put it in Youtube.
An attack of ethics by the NYT and the AP? Nah, they were afraid of the catcalls from the blogosphere if they knuckled under.
What’s with this ‘off the record’ CRAP? 0bama also had an ‘off the record’ meeting with the Press recently. WTF is going on? Prosecute these criminal thugs. We want a government accountable to us and Congress, not ‘off the record’.
Oh my. The New York Times AND the Associated Press.
Oh my. The New York Times AND the Associated Press.
Off the record ....
I hope this snowballs to the point that Holder will have no choice but to agree to a live broadcast Q&A.
Will the big 3 Obama worshiping networks attend, dutifully licking Obama and Holder’s boots?
If Holder throws in a package of Obama cookies I’ll bet the AP would change their mind
I have to repeat what a number of FReepers on this post have said, in disbelief...”OFF THE RECORD”...WTF, over?
Well, OK, maybe “Your master has summoned you” might have been coming on a bit too strong. BTT
Thanks for posting. The earlier read I did on the story appeared to be a blog and I couldn’t tell whether it was true. Politico’s bias is toward the left so I trust this one.
Mr. Woodhouse, your ignorance of your country's Constitution is astounding and shameful!
The "press" does not forfeit its right to "gripe" by not jumping through any hoops devised by any government official or combination of government officials!
The First Amendment to the Constitution is the law which "shields" the press, leaving it free to "gripe" all it wishes to gripe. No other law is needed. America's wise Founders believed that citizen liberty was safer in the hands of an unfettered press than in the hands of government officials.
"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. It behooves him, too, in his own case, to give no example of concession, betraying the common right of independent opinion . . . ." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1803."The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.
Did your NC History teachers not include these ideas of freedom in your high school or college courses?
No no. On the record would mean that Eric is accountable for the things he says. Can’t have that.
Boy, that transparency is getting just a little murky.
POLITICO editor-in-chief John Harris will attend this week's private meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder, even as both The New York Times and the Associated Press announced Wednesday that they would boycott meeting because it is going to be conducted on an off-the-record basis.
"As editor in chief, I routinely have off-the-record conversations with people who have questions or grievances about our coverage or our newsgathering practices. I feel anyone--whether an official or ordinary reader--should be able to have an unguarded conversation with someone in a position of accountability for a news organization when there is good reason," Harris, who was invited to represent POLITICO at the meeting, said in an email.
"By the same token, I sometimes initiate such conversations when I have concerns about access or other matters that affect newsgathering," he wrote. "This meeting was at DoJ's initiative. Although the circumstances of this meeting have drawn wide notice, I do not see them as falling outside the usual practices I follow as editor."
SNIP