Why Won’t Media Stand Up To White House?: "Why Won’t Media Stand Up To White House?
Investors Business Daily ^ | 5/18/2011 | Editorial Staff
Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:38:02 AM by IbJensen
The Obama administration has picked another fight with a dissident newspaper, kicking the Boston Herald out of the press pool on an unprecedented claim that its coverage is unfair. Who died and elected them judge?
If the mainstream media had any gumption at all, they would vigorously protest the strange, new self-appointed arbiter of 'fair' press coverage as an implicit threat to their own capacity to cover the news fairly.
What the White House has done by telling the Boston Herald it can no longer send a pool reporter to cover local campaign events on behalf of the media is another baby step toward state control of the media, using the carrot of access against the stick of exile.
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