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> Obama did the same thing FYA: > Barack Obama's campaign has booted from its airplane three reporters who work for newspapers that have endorsed John McCain.
by conistonwater 10y ago
> Obama did the same thing
FYA:
> Barack Obama's campaign has booted from its airplane three reporters who work for newspapers that have endorsed John McCain.
> The campaign says that a limited number of seats forced it to make the tough decision of which journalists would be permitted to follow the Democratic presidential candidate in the last four days of the campaign, but the papers are calling foul, claiming they were targeted for their editorial-page positions and kicked off while nonpolitical publications like Glamour and Jet magazines remained on board.
This action is about the press briefings. What are you talking about? Do you have something specific in mind?
- coldtea 10y agoHow about these then: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/10/10/cpj-report-on-obama-press/2960607/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/10/10/cpj-report-on-... Obama vs. Free Press: White House Claims Ban on News Photographers Actually a ‘Win’ for Transparency
- conistonwater 10y agoYour link doesn't match your title, so what's up with that? But in any case, wasn't that wrong too—the thing you linked to about leakers and whistleblowers? I don't think I understand what you mean with how about these then. (Unless you genuinely do mean it as whataboutism, in which case it doesn't seem to me like a valid point.)
- vacri 10y agoKeep in mind that the 24-hour news cycle is a relatively new 21st century thing, so comparisons about information control to earlier times isn't straightforward. Monitoring every action of a politician is much more intense than previously. It doesn't make the actions in the link right, but it's important to keep that context in mind.