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Old 09-24-2014, 16:41   #1
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Reporters say White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports

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Reporters say White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports
By Paul Farhi September 23 at 7:06 PM

White House press-pool reports are supposed to be the news media’s eyes and ears on the president, an independent chronicle of his public activities. They are written by reporters for other reporters, who incorporate them into news articles about President Obama almost every day.

Sometimes, however, the White House plays an unseen role in shaping the story.

Journalists who cover the White House say Obama’s press aides have demanded — and received — changes in press-pool reports before the reports have been disseminated to other journalists. They say the White House has used its unusual role as the distributor of the reports as leverage to steer coverage in a more favorable direction.

The disputed episodes involve mostly trivial issues and minor matters of fact. But that the White House has become involved at all represents a troubling trend for journalists and has prompted their main representative, the White House Correspondents’ Association, to consider revising its approach to pool reporting.

The decades-old White House press pool was created as a practical compromise between the news media and the nation’s chief executive: Instead of having a mob of journalists jostling to cover the president at every semi-public function, a handful of reporters are designated to act as proxies, or “poolers,” for the entire press corps. Poolers are chosen on a rotating basis from among regular White House correspondents, and they typically get more favorable access to presidential events to provide coverage that is shared with other reporters.

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Old 09-24-2014, 16:56   #2
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WH press pool...more like cesspool.
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Old 09-25-2014, 05:47   #3
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Ironically, this is only news to those reporters...the part of the general populace that has been "awake," already knew it.
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Old 09-25-2014, 07:18   #4
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Ironically, this is only news to those reporters...the part of the general populace that has been "awake," already knew it.
I'm just surprised that the story is actually being written about in the media...... That reporter will never step in the White House again......
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Old 09-25-2014, 07:43   #5
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How do you spell "transparency" America?
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Old 09-25-2014, 08:09   #6
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This topic is covered quite a bit in Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide. I always assumed the White House was as transparent as the pondscum growing around the banks of my cattle pond back home, but I didn't realize just how perverse the system of censorship was until I read example after example of how journalists are controlled by governments, especially our own. Prior to releasing the first taste of Snowden's documents, The Guardian, where Greenwald was brought on as a freelancer with very few controls, as he was also allowed to edit his own material and release it to the website prior to receiving approval from his bosses, had to notify the White House prior to his story making it to print.

Not only was a notification to the White House in order, The Guardian also had to tell them what they were bringing to the press and had to allow the White House time to sift through the data and respond, which really pissed Greenwald off - so much so that he was literally minutes away from going live with his collection of documents on a public/personal website until he received the green light from his employer (who grew tired of the White House's legal wranglings, stall tactics and other BS). His book exposes, in detail, how the White House attempts to suppress (and succeed in doing so more often than not) information that the press attempts to bring to fruition for the public to ponder.
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Old 09-25-2014, 09:01   #7
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Obama's press
O's press
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...pretty transparent
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I'm just surprised that the story is actually being written about in the media...... That reporter will never step in the White House again......
Not only that, I'm sure the IRS is after him as we speak. That's the Chicago way
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This topic is covered quite a bit in Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide. I always assumed the White House was as transparent as the pondscum growing around the banks of my cattle pond back home, but I didn't realize just how perverse the system of censorship was until I read example after example of how journalists are controlled by governments, especially our own. Prior to releasing the first taste of Snowden's documents, The Guardian, where Greenwald was brought on as a freelancer with very few controls, as he was also allowed to edit his own material and release it to the website prior to receiving approval from his bosses, had to notify the White House prior to his story making it to print.

Not only was a notification to the White House in order, The Guardian also had to tell them what they were bringing to the press and had to allow the White House time to sift through the data and respond, which really pissed Greenwald off - so much so that he was literally minutes away from going live with his collection of documents on a public/personal website until he received the green light from his employer (who grew tired of the White House's legal wranglings, stall tactics and other BS). His book exposes, in detail, how the White House attempts to suppress (and succeed in doing so more often than not) information that the press attempts to bring to fruition for the public to ponder.

This is how socialism operates..... the government rules the people obey..... It's all fun and games until someone starts shooting them in the face.........
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