WSB, you remind my of my Momma who operates on the premise that if she doesn't like it--it didn't happen. Obama's press management is becominhg legendary. And in my opinion it is not healthy
I don't get it...What is so wrong with trying to control the message or the narrative in a General Election. Seems to me to be good strategy especially when it is helping us against a third term of Bush.
What's the big deal, every politician attempts to do this in an election year?
hootie, the totalitarian state of any stripe would be so pleased by your comment. You have just demonstrated the way people today do not understand or care about a free press. Give us stage managed "news" and we are happy. He's in a campaign, who cares if we are being told the truth. Isn't that what people said about Bush and the war?? We are in a war, for heaven's sake--you can't expect the truth.
linfar...If you're trying to tell me that "Free Press" equals truthful news I've got a bridge I'd love to sell you...The fact is even when the MSM has access to your so-called "free press" and the truth, they distort, edit, and mangle it to make it fit their meme and then they feed the bullshit to the viewers.
If this is an attempt to stick up for the MSM, I'm afraid I can't support that cause.
No, hootie, Not sticking up for msm. But stage managed infotainment that looks like the real deal is even scarier to me. I would like to hear Obama say that he will support bringing back the fairness doctrine and that he is insterested in improving the accuracy and fairness of the media. I have heard no such thing from him. If somebody has any info that says otherwise, I would love to hear it. We have to improve the media not substitute fake news and say well, the media sucks so what the hey...
The original amendment to the Constitution is the cornerstone of the way of life in the United States ...
Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.
The first few days were part of the Senate trip, and now we are on the campaign part. His priorities were the soldiers . . . today it shifts to a trip funded by the campaign . . . and he properly held a press conference.
The press just craves Obama, and whines . . . yet they only send ONE reporter to cover McCain last night upon his arrival on NEW HAMPSHIRE!!
ONE!?
This is true... Jake Tapper was on the Ed Schultz show yesterday talking about this. Nonetheless, Obama has done interviews with the press in every country he's been to thus far and will do 3 major interviews -- one for each network.
thanks froggyman. Yes. it is true. and it is troubling. This is as troubling to me as his FISA vote. I would think progressives would be up in arms at Obama's stage managed press "conferences" and photo ops. We need someone fighting for a better, improved more "free" press and doing so by leading the way.
Linfar,
We appreciate your concern.
;-)
You are being very naive if you think that by not having press events 'staged' it will automatically mean what the candidate says is the truth. EVERY candidate does this...when they let go for one minute, even if off the record, the press distorts what they say and we have instant chaos within the campaign and the message. Frankly, I think Obama does too much 'free talking' and would be shut up from time to time. has nothing to do with his events being staged.
Well, I don't blame the campaign for caution during this trip, at all. First, there seems to be entirely too much interest in a potential gaffe. Moreover, the press constantly described the risks associated with trip, and most of these risks relate to perceptions (which gives the press enormous amounts of power). And, because the press is habitually shallow and obsessed with inconsequential crap, I frankly don't blame our candidate for keeping some distance during the trip.
Again, my sympathy for the campaign's guarded posture is mostly limited to this trip. During the ordinary domestic phase of the campaign, I would hope to see greater openness.
