Press angered over isolation at summit

Gee, I hope the lamestream media doesn't start trashing President Bush at every opportunity because of this. But then, they never needed an excuse to do so in the past.

As a longtime media person, I can tell instantly these individuals are "angered" because they are forced with doing actual work. That's never popular amongst the gen-X press ...

of the U.S. media, whose job it is to deliver to the American people the policies of their own government."

Yep, that's in Article Umpteen in the Constitution. Sounds to me like the media are just POed at being treated like little people when everybody knows that they are TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE! They run things don't you know? How dare an American President treat them in this manner. (snicker) I wish the G-8 would build some kind of "Fortress of Solitude" up on the North or South Pole just so we could see the media and all those unwashed, dreadlocked protestors freezing their behinds off.

FOX news channel reported that this pre-arranged isolation was Mr. Chretien's doing. He didn't want distractions so that the G-7 could concentrate on "closing the gap" between Africa and the rest of the world. (~giggle~)

"This has been, without a doubt, the worst-run event in my experience," said a veteran White House reporter who asked not to be named. "The credibility of this administration has gone right down the tubes with this fiasco, and I venture to say they will pay mightily for their shabby treatment of the U.S. media, whose job it is to deliver to the American people the policies of their own government."

That's gotta be the senile old hag Helen. She must have run out of Depends again.

I think everyone on this thread must remember Seattle, and Genoa. In Genoa, the protests were so horrible that the leaders met for much of the meeting on a SHIP in the Italian harbour. Voices of dissent against the G-8 need to be silenced during meetings like this so that actual decisions can be made. It's as if the parents must lock the door so that the children will not be able to wreck the party. The media, the protests and the curious should be kept miles from these meetings, if actual agreements are to take place among the leaders of these nation-states and their banking systems.

People in America are so quick to forget that a "freedom of the press" is something that isn't as established on a global level. And as globalization moves ahead, American journalists (as well as the rest of the world's) must begin to accept that their role is to report the news, not make the news. With anti-globalization stories, anti-free trade stories and constant puff-pieces and op-ed stories about poor nations, there is the potential for a negative trend to emerge against nation-states cooperating in this fashion... hence the G-8 meeting far from the maddening nutballs.