Soon we may only have Pravda

[ELSORDO]

Well I suppose it is "change" of a sort.

Sun-Times: Journalists Being Shut Out by Obama
By Warner Todd Huston
Created 2009-01-12 21:43

Published on NewsBusters.org (http://newsbusters.org)

According to Sun-Times columnist and long-time Chicago journalist, Carol Marin, journalists at Barack Obama news conferences have come to realize that Obama has pre-picked those journalists [1] whom he will allow to ask him questions at the conference and many of them now "don't even bother raising" their hands to be called upon.

One wonders why journalists are allowing this corralling of the press? Would they have allowed George W. Bush to pre-pick journalists like that? Would they meekly sit by and allow themselves to be systematically ignored, their freedom to ask questions silenced by any Republican? Would journalists so eagerly vie with one another for the favor of Bush like they are Obama's?

For her part, it seems that Carol Marin is starting to wonder at the "bizarro world" that is being invented by the pliant and smitten Obama loving press corps.

As ferociously as we march like villagers with torches against Blagojevich, we have been, in the true spirit of the Bizarro universe, the polar opposite with the president-elect. Deferential, eager to please, prepared to keep a careful distance.

The Obama news conferences tell that story, making one yearn for the return of the always-irritating Sam Donaldson to awaken the slumbering press to the notion that decorum isn't all it's cracked up to be.

The press corps, most of us, don't even bother raising our hands any more to ask questions because Obama always has before him a list of correspondents who've been advised they will be called upon that day.


Will the rest of the press retake their manhood and again become the tough guys they have always claimed to be or are they going to stay so smitten by Obama and their love for The One that they will allow themselves to continue being forced into a subservient role?

One has a sinking suspicion that the press is allowing itself to become Obama's lapdog extraordinaire.

[Scout26]

Once the press becomes disappointed/disillusioned with Obama they'll turn on him like rabid pit-bulls...

There will be a a mini-civil war between those "loyal" to Obama and those who say the emporer has no clothes.

[Standing Wolf]

One has a sinking suspicion that the press is allowing itself to become Obama's lapdog extraordinaire.

Wow! What powers of observation!

[Manedwolf]

Once the press becomes disappointed/disillusioned with Obama they'll turn on him like rabid pit-bulls...

There will be a a mini-civil war between those "loyal" to Obama and those who say the emporer has no clothes.

Nah. They don't want to be denied access. That's why there aren't any bulldogs anymore. They get shut out, their network gets shut out. They're told to throw softballs so they're allowed to attend.

[El Tejon]

There will be a a mini-civil war between those "loyal" to Obama and those who say the emporer has no clothes.

Can we sell guns to both sides?

[ELSORDO]

There's so damn much to worry about concerning the coming of THE ONE that a tame press gets little attention from either itself or the public.  Ultimately,however, it may become the straw on the camel's back.  I fear that before the great unwashed wakes up to the fact that it has been had, irreparable damage to our freedoms will have been inflicted.

[ELSORDO]

Can we sell guns to both sides?

Only if you don't show the "loyalists" which end the bullets depart from.

[jamz]

I was under the impression that Bush did exactly the same.  :|

[HankB]

. . . One has a sinking suspicion that the press is allowing itself to  become has long been Obama's lapdog extraordinaire.

Fixed it.

[seeker_two]

One has a sinking suspicion that the press is allowing itself to become Obama's lapdog extraordinaire.

Chris Muir beat you to it.....check out last month's DAY BY DAY....

[MicroBalrog]

I was under the impression that Bush did exactly the same.  :|

Sssh, you evil liberal, why are you criticizing our noble President?

[RoadKingLarry]

More and more I think Pravda may be a better source for "truth" than the main stream media in the US.
At least when it comes to Obama.

[txgho1911]

You notice the leftward steering at fox as of late?

[Wildalaska]

You notice the leftward steering at fox as of late?

I prefer to call it fair and balanced. I want news and intelligent opinion.

WildnothistrionicsAlaska TM

[Nitrogen]

Nah. They don't want to be denied access. That's why there aren't any bulldogs anymore. They get shut out, their network gets shut out. They're told to throw softballs so they're allowed to attend.

This is no different how the press was for much of the last 8 years, except it went the other way.
Change, indeed.