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Posted: Mar 4, 2013

Beat the press Reporters reveal how the Obama administration threatens and controls the media After Woodward's treatment surfaced last week, Jonathan Alter — who frequently appears on the Obama-friendly MSNBC — said he had been treated horribly by the administration for writing something they didn’t like. “There is a kind of threatening tone that, from time to time — not all the time — comes out of these guys,” Alter said this week. During the 2008 campaign swing through Berlin, Alter said that future White House press secretary Robert Gibbs disinvited him from a dinner between Obama and the press corps over it. “I was told ‘Don’t come,’ in a fairly abusive e-mail,” he said. “[It] made what Gene Sperling wrote [to Woodward] look like patty-cake.” “I had a young reporter asking tough, important questions of an Obama Cabinet secretary,” says one DC veteran. “She was doing her job, and they were trying to bully her. In an e-mail, they called her the vilest names — bitch, c--t, a--hole.” He complained and was told the matter would be investigated: “They were hemming and hawing, saying, ‘We’ll look into it.’ Nothing happened.” http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/beat_the_press_96lFrUNync5zuBZTiZ6aUL;

Gossip. - I'm grumpy.

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I can't decide what the latest gossip is these days--the press is in love with Obama or the press is upset with Obama.

I think the press is as ugly a business as any, and right now it's showing its petty side.

The press is definitely not used - to being put in this situation.

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They've done Obama's bidding and gotten along very well, but dare to write about a fact that is unflattering to him and they're treated as turncoats.

Yeah right, they aren't - used to it.

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The press are VERY used to it.

"An investigation by the New York Times discovered that top Pentagon officials met with news analysts where they gave the analysts 'special information' and then tried to convince them to speak favorably about the Iraq war.[37] The discovery was based on 8000 pages of secret information that had been revealed to The New York Times through a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. The article states that top Pentagon officials would invite news analysts to secret meetings, and urge the analysts to speak positively of the war. Often, the US would give "classified information," trips, and contracts to the news analysts.[37]"
FIVE SCREENS of right wing smear machine posts - with not ONE statement from Jon Alter,
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before I gave up scanning more screens. You are spreading unconfirmed slurs. You know the sites you visit specialize in lies. You have absolutely no reason so far to believe this is true.

For those who think there are consequences to our behaviors, this is what is meant by "bearing false witness."
Oh puhlease. - I'm not naive.
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You can wag your finger at me all you want, but I'm not an idiot. That war was a farce, and the media manipulated the country every single day of it. If you think differently, good for you. But I'll tell you right now that if O is manipulating the media, it's a trick he picked up from his predecessor.
I was wagging at the people spreading the - Jonathan Alter lie, because they have every
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reason to believe it IS a lie. That's why they go to those websites, instead of honest ones--for lies. If it turns out to have a kernel of truth to it, they'll be pleased, but it's not at all necessary for their pleasure.

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