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White House bans newspaper for 'bias'...
The White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full access to President Obama's Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails objecting to the newspaper's front page placement of a Mitt Romney op-ed, saying pool reporters are chosen based on whether they cover the news "fairly."So I guess the press room is pretty empty nowdays right? They're bending over and grabbing their ankles right now... "I tend to consider the degree to which papers have demonstrated to covering the White House regularly and fairly in determining local pool reporters," White House "My point about the op-ed was not that you ran it but that it was the full front page, which excluded any coverage of the visit of a sitting US President to Boston. I think that raises a fair question about whether the paper is unbiased in its coverage of the President's visits," Lehrich wrote. Translation: Lerich want's to dictate what appears on the front page. "Youse boys strayed from the approved message." [WHACK] "Oooooo. Very sorry boss. Can we get in now boss?" But Lehrich said the Herald wasn't purposefully barred from the press pool, saying local pool duty by the Boston Globe was arranged earlier with the White House Correspondents Association. And Lehrich insisted the Herald may yet be allowed into Obama events. If you are good little boys and girls. "As we have in the past -- including the multiple occasions on which the Herald has supplied local pool reporters -- we will continue to consider the Herald for local pool duty for future visits," Lehrich wrote. "Newspapers don't have to be unbiased to get access. You can't just let only the newspapers you want in," said Boston University journalism professor Fred Bayles. The obligatory 'media ethics' quote so that you know the Herald has ethics, even as they capitulate... And so it begins.... (actually it's been going on for some time). Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-05-18 |
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