AP Worried Obama Rules Media With Iron Fist

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On January 22 the Associated Press posted an interesting little tidbit of news about how Team Obama is treating the press. Apparently, the Obama White House is trying to force news agencies to use Obama's own, special, ostensibly "official" photographer's photos taken at Obama press conferences instead of allowing news agencies to have their own photogs present to record the event. As a result of this attempt by Obama to control his image, the AP and Reuters are a bit miffed that Obama is trying to control the press with such an iron fisted move like this.

All I have to ask is: NOW they get worried that Obama is not too dedicated to freedom of the press? After Obama is fairly elected, NOW the Old Media is beginning to question The One on his treatment of them?

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News organizations that cover the White House sparred with the Obama administration on Thursday over access issues for photographers and rules for briefings.

Representatives from Obama's press office held a conference call with photo editors, who are concerned that the administration prefers distributing photos taken by a White House photographer in cases where photojournalists have been permitted access in the past. It was unclear whether the two sides had reached any accommodation.

Obama did not allow still photographers or video cameras into his re-do of the oath on Wednesday, either. This has also caused the press corps to belatedly raise its collective eyebrow. Reuters and the AP have refused to use the "official" photos of conferences issued by Obama's press office.

This same AP story also reports that Team Obama has refused permission for news agencies to use the actual names of administration officials issuing info on "background" even though every president before Obama has allowed the citation of administration official's names.

The Associated Press also questioned on Thursday why reporters were not allowed to use the names of administration officials giving a background briefing on issues regarding the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba.

Background briefings are hardly new in Washington, and were frequently conducted during the Bush and Clinton administrations. But the AP wanted to establish early with the administration that it's important to get information on the record as often as possible, said Michael Oreskes, managing editor for U.S. news.

"Information is a lot more valuable to the public if you know where it's coming from," Oreskes said. "So we try very hard in all source situations to identify sources as fully as we can."

Naturally, Obama's office stonewalled the concerns.

This is in keeping with the relatively few times the press has bothered to report on the aloof or even offhanded way they've been treated by Obama throughout the campaign and since his election.

We'll recall that Obama was testy with media last Halloween as he walked his daughter through the neighborhood. Remember when Obama continually shutting down a reporter's legitimate questions about what was going on between Obama and troubled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Jest yesterday he got testy with the press during his surprise visit to the press room of the White House. Then there is the story covered here where Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin reported that Obama has a special list of reporters upon whom he'll call during press conferences. Marin reported that the reporters not on the special list have realized they shouldn't even bother to raise their hands. And several reporters mentioned that Obama never mixed much with them on the campaign trail with the result that reporters never got to know the candidate at all.

It all adds up to a Barack Obama that does not like the media yet that same media has tried to cover this up with starry-eyed adulation and thrills down their legs for several years, now.

The curious thing is that the Old Media isn't all up in arms at how Barack Obama dismisses their freedom to cover his press conferences and his aloofness from them? Where are the Chris Mathews of the world gravely warning that this ill-treatment of the press is a bad omen? Where are the Dowds or even the David Brookes warning at a president that tries so desperately to control the press? And is there much doubt that if a Republican president had tried to so strictly control the press like Obama has thus far that they would be screaming bloody murder?

I'd say those are good questions, wouldn't you?


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Censorship at the Anchorage Daily News

The Obama boot licking crew at the ADN, or more specifically the Editor there known for being a "Trig Troofer", has been telling us Alaskans to give up on drilling in ANWR, because that's what Obama wants.  In fact we should do anything that he wants...for the good of the country.  Right...

When I, and others who don't enjoy the taste of boot leather, dare to disagree, and post our thoughts in the forum provided...they mysteriously vanish.  Pages of them.  Just the posts that question the One vanish.  It's not random or accidental.  No obscene or racist language, no insults.  Just dissent.  Apparently at the ADN, questioning the One is forbidden and will get you nowhere. One wonders what it will take to make his worshippers notice that his boots taste crappy.

I am so sick of this leftist rag pretending to represent the people of Alaska.  When it finally fails I will throw a party...hell...there'll be parties all over Alaska.

Happy Trails...

Party?

Let me know when the party is I will be there.  BTB this is someone who hates cold weather.  (retired fastattack sub sailor)

Now that's odd...

The censor at the Grand Junction, Colorado 'daily press' does the same thing.

 Write an unpopular post that shows how dishonest or stupid their liberal regulars are and "POOF!!!"

 All gone bye bye, and the bedwetters get all gooey and teary eyed in gratitude.

NEWSFLASH! biddeebeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep

Newsflash for the MSM - Obama hates the MSM almost as much as the rest of us.

Too bad you did not find that out while you were so busy not finding out everything else about the man and ignoring all the nasty stuff the alternative media were reporting.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

We can't

We can't expect facts to intrude on the Old Media's Fantasy Obama, can we?

Well how would they know

Since their heads are rammed so far up his arse that even sun light doesn't penetrate.

Stop buying all media products, period. 

Correct. If the media

Correct. If the media thinks they will have access to Obama, they have another thing coming. He hasn't allowed much access the last few years. And they bashed Bush for being inaccessible.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

NOW they worry about

NOW they worry about it.

They didn't have any problems whenever he stiff-armed them during the campaign.  They didn't figure out that this was one controlling individual?

I remember wondering in comments back then, how they would take it when he was President and they got stiffed. I predicted that they would take it, and they are, so far at least. I'm predicting they will continue, because, as we all know, "access" is the name of the game.  They will let him walk on them, each in the hope that he will be the privileged one.

Even worse, this commentary by John Harris and Jim Vandehei, (another NOW they're concerned about it!) proves that they fell down on the job. Only that lack of concern will be paid for not just by them, but by all of us.

Thank the same media for this buffoon....

Since the current administration is nothing more than a media creation, it serves as poetic justice Hopey-Dopey would shun an oppurtunity to give some answer -- no matter how glib or inane -- to any reporter gathered at the White House.

America's experiment with this pandering racist and socialist is going to be painful for the left wingers that soiled their undergarments in anticipation of his arrival as POTUS.  The balance of legitimate America must exercise extraordinary patience and due vigilance since our nation is now in great danger of a major terror attack and further deterioration of our economy.  If legitimate Americans will quit pretending none of this really matters and elevate competent national leadership, the Hopey-Dopey clique gets a swift kick out the door in 2012. 

Hooray! I Won! Now, What Do I Do?

Obama is definitely in over his head! This does surprise me somewhat for he so exuded confidence and a sense that he had destiny in his back pocket. His taking the oath again was silly. I still think it was being so close to a Bible that rattled him and Roberts. You notice things went smoothly during the rerun when the Good Book was left on the shelf. And his obvious frustration with the Biden "Roberts crack" showed a man barely containing his rage. Now, the press--his cadre of clowns--realizes  he wants to continue his control over them and why shouldn't he: they have been fawning over him for years. Surprise! Surprise! The press got him elected and now feeling secure the evil Bush is gone, they will hold him accountable. Obama doesn't  seem to realize the reporters have a more sacred  cow to protect and that is their freedom to question and report and write editorials that may very well be critical of him when he doesn't return the big favor they did in getting him the office. I'm afraid the honeymoon is over before the breakfast tray has been served.  I have concerns about his march toward socialism, his policy in the Middle East, his abortion stance and many other  positions but there appears to be another matter we are just now learning--we have elected a bungler, a stumbler--and that is very transparent. I'm afraid we have another Jimmy Carter on our hands!

www.chalktalk

Welcome

to 'hope and change' dictator style, anybody thinking about Castro/Chavez or any of those fun-fellows?   He reminds me a bit of Diana, Princess of Wales, the way she used the media for her purposes, but despised them at the same time. 

 "This too shall pass"  

Hitler's press

One of the 25 points of the Nazi Party:

23. We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who
propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the
press. In order to make possible the creation of a German press, we
demand:

(a) All editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens.

(b) Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express
permission of the State. They must not be published in the German
language.

(c) All financial interests in or in any way affecting German
newspapers shall be forbidden to non-Germans by law, and we demand that
the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression
of the newspaper and the expulsion of the non-Germans from the Reich.

Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be
suppressed. We demand legal action against those tendencies in art and
literature that have a disruptive influence upon the life of our folk,
and that any organizations that offend against the foregoing demands
shall be dissolved.

24. We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as
they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical
sense of the Germanic race.

The party as such represents the point of view of a positive
Christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession.
It fights against the Jewish materialist spirit within and without, and
is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about
from within on the pinciple:

BARRKY'S MINISTRY OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROPAGANDA ...

... is just getting started.  Soon only pictures of BARRKY with HALOS will be allowed.

"Information is a lot more valuable to the public....

if you know where it's coming from," Oreskes said. "So we try very hard in all source
situations to identify sources as fully as we can."

Ya, sure you do.

Vain

What strikes me is that he doesn't want other photographers taking his pic.  He is that insecure?  Is he afraid that they might snap a shot at a bad angle and make his ears look bigger than they are?  I guess he wants to approve any photo that is published of him.  Quite vain I'd say.

Yes, he is that vain. Like

Yes, he is that vain. Like all totalitarian heads of state, Obama is full of himself and dedicated to controlling how he and his policies are presented in all media.

Remember how he had his campaign people demand that the Attorney General of--was it Missouri--go after those who presented Obama in a manner he didn't like? More of that to come. Oh yes.

This is the interesting pattern I see developing with Obama: there seems to be a continuing and growing conflict between the phony image of himself he wants us to worship, and the amazingly amateur daily goofups he and his staff seem unable to stop. Gibbs' performance will be fodder for late night comedians.

This is rich ground for great humor, and will eventually unmask this phony for what he really is.

For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.

We have a new openess in

We have a new openess in Washington.

Openess is Obama and Demo speak for you'll get what we want you to get.

Limited Disclosure:  I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.

Mr Obama's change is

to be more secretive & restrictive of the Press than Bush - but make them like it.

One AP reporter has a problem but most are gladly following dear leader's instructions.

All I can say

for the mediots is, cry me a river.

I like that....mediots.

Can I borrow that phrase?

 

 

sure

its not an original, though

No problem...

 

It's the first time I've seen it....I like it.  I plan on incorporating the term in future references of the left wing waterboys impersonating journalists.

What, we can't even photoshop any more???

AP & Reuters made him into a deity, so this is a big surprise?

Now you must play by the deity's rules, suckers. 

If you want any more of them there halo shots, they will now be supplied to you; you shall not create them on your own anymore.

And so it presents a

And so it presents a conundrum for members of the media.  They have a job to do, yet they worship the ground this guy walks on.  I wonder which emotion will win in the end.  Because if Obama continues to bite the hand that feeds him, maybe just maybe the media will turn on him.  As odd as that sounds, most journalists are narcissistic anyway and it actually wouldn't surprise me if this happens.

 

www.theholyrosary.org

"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia

All of this must be part of

All of this must be part of that "transparency" I hear liberals blathering about.  What a bunch of nonsense.  Barack Obama is about as transparent as mud.  This guy is hiding more already than Bush did in his entire term in office, and they had the nerve to call Bush secretive.

It will present an interesting situation.  How long will it take for the media that created Obama to turn on him?  I predict this will not happen easily.  They will tolerate Obama's shenanigans as long as they are not made to look like fools--their egos will not handle that.  Plus, they have to cover for Obama to a large degree, because if he fails it reflects negatively on the press--and their egos won't allow that either.  This is why it was so unprofessional for the press to openly gush about a new president.  To be so firmly in the tank for a public official means that they will be reluctant to criticize even when it is appropriate.  (Of course, we know they are like this anyway, but this love-fest is far more overt than anything I've seen in my lifetime.)

Finally!

The MSM is only now figuring out that The Messiah is not be questioned?? So much for open, transparent government!

The Asinine Press feeling a bit like Dr. Frankenstein?

Good.

Now the advocacy/adversary media will find out . . .

. . .about the fascist and his advisers and others they helped install as the POTUS

They're shocked? Most cave-dwellers such as they have become, would be.

Maybe now the press may find an ammendment in

the constitution they can get behind? Interesting to say the least.

 

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

Transparency--as in "see right through"?

Could we lose this word? What's wrong with openness? I have said all along that this admin will make the Bushies look as babbly as Richard Simmons.

 

Fast learner

If nothing else Obama is a fast learner .. After the Spitzer and Stabenow's hubby fiasco Obama is not going to allow himself to be linked to whores ... media or otherwise

FDR??

I am confused here.  PEBO wants everyone to accept him as the new FDR and the news media is upset he is controlling them and not allowing certain pics to be released. 

What is the problem? 

That is EXACTLY what FDR did his entire administration.  Up till his death at the end of WWII 95% of the population of the US had no clue that FDR was wheel chair bound from Polio.  He controlled and forbid any picturs showing him in his chair or being carried around by the secret service with his braces on.  If a reporter did manage to publish a pic of him that way they were blacklisted from the white house and never let back in till after his death. 

Get used to it MSM, you elected him, you deal with it.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you."

where are we

my goodness I tried to warn or inform you that what is the first thing a dictator does when he takes office???? Controls the Media...

now all msm go buy stock in KLEENEX.wait I hear beckoning once again ...happiness for awhile then crying again..what did you think when we learned  he studied marxism and socialism (by the  way did anyone ever notice that "equation" he was doing at the chalkboard was an ALINSKY problem...and with cheerleaders like Chavez Castro and whoever was on that flag in Obama's Houston office (CHE or whatever)

 

Man bites lapdog?

HILARIOUS! If the press complains, then they are racists! They are caught in a trap of their own making. How fitting. Maybe they will learn, if conventional media survives, that cranking out propaganda for one's favorite candidate creates it's own dangers.

1st and 2nd

If only these mealy mouth media hacks had a pair.

If they (or all of the media) stopped showing up to his speakings, stopped printing his words, in fact just plain out stopped anything Obama related, I would give him about two weeks before he and his administration caved in.

And what exactly is The One

And what exactly is The One going to tell them other than what they already know and want to hear anyway?  They may as well stay home.

Funny that the most controversial thing they can come up with centers around themselves and their concern that they may not get ample opportunities to touch the hem of His garment.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.