merrie says: Helen Thomas: Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50445 Helen Thomas, the veteran White House reporter who thinks there aren't enough liberals in the press, reached her breaking point yesterday with the Obama White House's attempts to manage the news. She publicly scolded Obama's team for handpicking the questions at a faux virtual town-hall event on health care and then insulted President Obama by saying he is worse than Richard Nixon. First the video from the daily White House press briefing, where Chip Reid of CBS joined Thomas in grilling press secretary Robert Gibbs about the town hall http://www.aim.org/on-target-blog/the-press-corps-gets-feisty/ (CNSNews.com) “What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.” Thomas said she was especially concerned about the arrangement between the Obama Administration and a writer from the liberal Huffington Post Web site. The writer was invited by the White House to President Obama’s press conference last week on the understanding that he would ask Obama a question about Iran from among questions that had been sent to him by people in Iran. “When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you,” Thomas said. “I’m not saying there has ne... I like this lady. It's about time someone stood up and told the White House off. If they are allowed to manipulate information to ensure a favored outcome then what is the purpose of a free press? We are being lead around by our noses and the fact that they don't give a damn is alarmingly bad news for the public. If we allow small indiscretions to go unanswered today they will become big problems tomorrow. They are already big problems. Too late. |
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