[FedCom] White House criticizes news media for "reporting [that] was based on listening to a police scanner"

[Richard Crisp]

the WP management recently was promoting dinners at the home of the publisher on a pay basis as a way of accessing senior members of the Obama administration

When you have a situation like that where they sell access it diminishes any notion of objectivity on their political reporting in the eyes of many

You would be more convincing if you were to cite articles from a news organization free of such alignments in order to build your case


-----Original Message-----
>From: ed <bernies at netaxs.com>
>Sent: Sep 23, 2009 9:41 AM
>To: fedcom at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [FedCom] White House criticizes news media for "reporting	[that] was based on listening to a police scanner"
>
>Richard Crisp's inane political comment (see below) about this administration's
>secrecy policy has no factual basis.
>
>-ed 
>
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR2009092301958.html?hpid=topnews
>
>Obama Tightens State Secrets Standard
>New Policy May Affect Wiretap, Torture Suits
>
>The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a new policy making it much more
>difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state secrets when
>it hides details of sensitive national security strategies such as rendition and
>warrantless eavesdropping...
>
>
>>From: SmokeyKat at webtv.net
>>Sent: Sep 11, 2009 1:11 PM
>>To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
>>Subject: Re: [FedCom] White House criticizes news media for "reporting [that]
>was based on listening to a police scanner"
>>
>>we could see more and more. communications. becomeing. less and less in
>>the clear.   john...
>
>
>>From: Richard Crisp <rdcrisp at earthlink.net>
>>Sent: Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:17 PM
>>To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
>>Subject: Re: [FedCom] White House criticizes news media for "reporting [that]
>was based on listening to a police scanner"
>
>> especially when you see who's in the white house these days
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