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What do the following "news organizations" have in common?
Al-Ahram, Beijing Daily, China Press, China Youth Daily, China Times, Sing Tao Daily, the Vietnam News Agency and the Xinhua News Agency.
If you guessed that they are all – to one extent or another – representatives of the government-controlled press, you would be right. You win the prize.
But, they all have something else in common, too – something you may not have guessed.
They are all fully accredited members of the Washington press corps, with full access to congressional hearings, offices, press conferences, deliberations and special sessions.
Meanwhile, I need to point out, WorldNetDaily has been denied credentials by the august body known as the Standing Committee of Correspondents that granted those official news organs accreditation.
That's right. DENIED. Why?
World Net Daily has about as much credibility as Art Bell.
no offense to you, John H.
Dear Mr. Keenan,
I am writing in reference to an article titled "The Government-Media Cabal", which was published at WorldNetDaily.com on 13 February, 2002. The article's author, Mr. Joseph Farah, complains that the Standing Committee of Correspondence has declined to grant press corps accreditation to WorldNetDaily ("WND") for over a year, and that you have given him a series of excuses that frankly seem arbitrary and implausible. In his article, Mr. Farah lists some 300 news organizations from this country and around the world that hold the accreditation denied to WND. Some of these organizations are the official mouthpieces of bloody tyrants and of regimes that hate this country and continually slander it. I do not ask that any of them be excluded from our Senate hearings; it is good that opinion-makers from around the world are able to witness democracy in action (whatever account they may give of it). All I ask is that one of America's foremost news organizations, WorldNetDaily, be granted the same access to the facilities and proceedings of our own government as the official propagandists of regimes that would love to see America destroyed.
Thank you for your kind attention.