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Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia
Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Foundation's Project for Excellence in Journalism: "A newspaper reporter is being punished because she took pictures with a moving camera. We live in a world where there are no longer distinctions. The White House is trying to live by 20th century distinctions."The President's practice not just with transparency but in other dealings with the press has not been tracking his words, despite the cool glamour and easy conversation that makes him seem so much more open than the last guy. W wasn't easy to talk to? I guess some must think that someone is more likeable if they are a shallow, bitter, punishment-clinging, slow-thinking fool. It was his administration that decided to go after New York Times reporter James Risen to get at his source in a book he wrote about the CIA. For us here in SF who went through the BALCO case and other fisticuffs with the George W. Bush Attorney General's prosecutors, this is deja vu. I guess that in the liberal mind, Obama going after a reporter for using a videophone somehow equates to W going after James Risen? Late today, there were hints that the White House might be backing off the Carla Fatwa. Barack Obama sold himself successfully as a fresh wind for the 21st century. In important matters of communication, technology, openness and the press, it's not too late for him to demonstrate that. Methinks some folks are still sold on the idea. Or maybe they don't know what the words mean other than giving them a good tingly feeling down their leg. Posted by: gorb 2011-04-29 |
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