January 14, 2008

Browbeating the Press

See here Via Protein Wisdom
 
The long and the short of it is that the Hillary! campaign assaults the press and threatens them by withholding access if they publish anything remotely negative about our sainted, former first lady.

Kind of reminds me of the deal CNN struck to maintain "access" to Iraq.  You can stay here and report, just don't say anything bad, or you have to leave.

Explain to me please what a reporter is doing if he is covering up instead of covering a politician?

And why oh why are they giving into this?  If Hillary! kicks a reporter off the bus for publishing something true and negative, all the other reporters should just keep beating on that story until the reporter in question is permitted back.  Every question in every presser should be "Where's Mr. Jones from the Jones Review?" until that reporter is brought back.

The press is always telling us how professional they are, and they certainly can act like a medieval guild when they want to, why not now?

Someone might infer that they like being nothing more than an arm of the Clinton press office, that they have goals somehow aligned with the Clinton campaign.  But that can't be, can it?

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