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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2011 13:19:21 GMT -5
No. So completely unpredictable.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2011 14:20:22 GMT -5
Obama's team has been playing hard with the press too - kicking out reporters that don't cover him favorably. It's very disappointing. Here's a blurb from the San Francisco Chronicle: White House credibility gap on press coverage
The White House communications operation has a credibility problem. On Thursday, key people in that office told The Chronicle in plain language that reporter Carla Marinucci would be banished as a pool reporter for future presidential visits because she shot video of a protest inside an Obama fund-raising event in San Francisco. The White House further threatened "retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban," said Editor Ward Bushee.
On Friday, the White House flat-out denied that such exchanges took place.
"Not true," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told Politico.com when asked about the threat.
This is not a matter of spinning reality.
"It is not a truthful response," Bushee said, bluntly.
Read more: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/29/EDIF1J9TNO.DTL#ixzz1USz6d0Dj From the Huffington Post: Forty journalists, including such leading correspondents as Dan Balz of The Washington Post, will be aboard his plane for next week's swing through Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England.
The campaign received 200 requests for press seats on the plane.
Among those for whom there was no room was Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent of The New Yorker. The campaign, which was furious about the magazine's satirical cover this week, cited space constraints in turning him away. From the Boston Herald: White House shuts out Herald scribeHillary Chabot By Hillary Chabot
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.”
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