IBD Editorials ^ | May 6, 2011 | Staff
Posted on Friday, May 06, 2011 8:42:41 PM by Kaslin
Free Press: Is the U.S. really still the leader of the Free World? A string of attacks on the press by the White House press office is starting to add up to more than hostility to individual outlets. It's raising freedom-of-speech issues.
All of which is ironic, given the fawning coverage President Obama has received. Alas, it's likely that a corrupted press — from the JournoList collaboration of media and political operatives to ABC's rollover of its schedule for Obama are at the root of the growing hostility toward a free, independent and balanced Fourth Estate.
With an amen corner, the president's men launched unprecedented attacks, starting with media dissidents such as Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. Now the White House press office is growing bolder.
Last month in Florida, a reporter was stuffed into a closet by a staffer of Vice President Joe Biden to keep him from talking to donors. The reporter's newspaper pretty well rolled over and said, no big deal.
Then the San Francisco Chronicle's Carla Marinucci was threatened with exile from the press pool by the White House press staff for shooting video of loony leftist protesters who turned up at a presidential fundraiser. The paper, to its credit, protested.
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