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White House refuses Boston Herald full access to Obama's fund raiser.
Posted: May 18, 2011
So, why not? Hm-m-m. Keep reading. Is the WH Press Office being fair? They're wrong. If the want fair reporting, they should allow the Herald full access. As for the ad, hey, don't they know Romney was the governor of MA at one time?
The White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full access to President Obama’s Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails objecting to the newspaper’s front page placement of a Mitt Romney op-ed, saying pool reporters are chosen based on whether they cover the news “fairly.”
“I tend to consider the degree to which papers have demonstrated to covering the White House regularly and fairly in determining local pool reporters,” White House spokesman Matt Lehrich wrote in response to a Herald request for full access to the presidential visit.
“My point about the op-ed was not that you ran it but that it was the full front page, which excluded any coverage of the visit of a sitting US President to Boston. I think that raises a fair question about whether the paper is unbiased in its coverage of the President’s visits,” Lehrich wrote.
But Lehrich said the Herald wasn’t purposefully barred from the press pool, saying local pool duty by the Boston Globe was arranged earlier with the White House Correspondents Association. And Lehrich insisted the Herald may yet be allowed into Obama events.
“As we have in the past — including the multiple occasions on which the Herald has supplied local pool reporters — we will continue to consider the Herald for local pool duty for future visits,” Lehrich wrote.
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It IS wrong and it is unconstitutional. - The Constitution does
[ In Reply To ..]not say freedom of the press if you agree with and/or support the President. This White House thumbs its nose at the Constitution once again. I don't know why he doesn't just declare himself king and get it over with.
Lamestream media strategies - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Who was it that accused the media of blood libel? Which failed senatorial candidate out of NV literally ran in the opposite direction when approached by the media? Which potential GOP contender sabotaged his own candidacy this past week on Meet the Press by being quoted verbatim after responding to Dick Gregory\'s so-called "racist-tinged question?" Recently on Fox, Palin advised conservatives to be prepared for gotcha questions and overcome them. Failing that, they should just ignore any reporters who play that "game." Call me crazy, but the choice of the word game does not exactly impart much of a reverence for our Constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of the press.
It is called message management. So I guess when the GOP does it, they are victims protecting themselves from vicious attacks, but when the WH does it, it is unonstitutional? IMO, no matter who tries to manipulate media coverage by whatever means, it always comes off as a sign of weakness. Though I believe that in a fundraiser event, the WH DOES have the right to decide who and who does not attend (for example, Rush Limbaugh would not likely be invited), barring a Boston Herald pool reporter from the event was just plain dumb, regardless of the blatent bias it shows.
Haven't seen this kind of paranoia since Nixon! - Zville MT
[ In Reply To ..]Good thing Bush never tried to keep out press that didn't like him or didn't agree with him - he'd have been sitting in a press room all by himself! Obama seriously needs to get over himself!!
I think it's worse than Nixon! (no msg) - Backwards Typist
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Bush and the Spinmasters - Cheney Rumsfeld - nm
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Bush and Cheney were always in an undisclosed location hiding from the press - nm
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Cheney's secret meetings with the oil companies? - Now there is a photo op
[ In Reply To ..]Memory problems?
Nope, I don't have memory problems. - Zville MT
[ In Reply To ..]I remember that very well and I also remember that the press made a HUGE fuss over it, as well as did the American people. It's not okay, whoever is doing it, for whatever reason - they don't get to pick and choose who gets a story based on what stories they've done.
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