[mhking]

This is something to remember the next time it is an administration of left-wing @ssholes that is doing the manipulating.

Take off your tinfoil.

Every administration uses the media to the extent that it can. Not only that, if the day comes when the media doesn't get access, you'll get slanted coverage like you wouldn't believe.

[Alberta's Child]

Call me a nut, but in a case like this I don't even look upon "the media" and "the government" as two distinct entities. So granting one of them "access" to the workings of the other is sort of like having the FBI provide illuminating commentary on the incompetence of the CIA in the weeks and months leading up to 9/11.

[doubled]

One other thing to remember is the last president used the press and manipulation of the press to cover up personal and cabinet member's problems. The current administration is using manipulation of the press to cover for national security.

[hchutch]

"What's he hiding?"