Posted on 08/12/2006 10:59:32 AM PDT by Mo1
GREEN BAY, Wis. - On one of the scariest days yet in the five-year battle with terrorists, President Bush prepared to make a speech to reassure the American people. But the White House press corps was 1,000 miles away in Texas.
Bush had left his ranch vacation and jetted north for a scheduled closed-door fundraiser. No press plane accompanied him. And so when news broke that Britain had broken up a major terrorist plot, the only ones there to convey the president's reaction were a handful of local reporters and a few pool journalists who ride in the back of Air Force One.
The idea that Bush could travel across the country without a full contingent of reporters, especially in the middle of a war, highlights a major cultural shift in the presidency and the news media. In the four decades since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, presidents traditionally have taken journalists with them wherever they traveled on the theory that when it comes to the most powerful leader on the planet, anything can happen at any time.
Striking out alone
But increasingly in recent months, Bush has left town without a chartered press plane, often to receptions where he talks to donors chipping in hundreds of thousands of dollars with no cameras or tapes to record his words for the public. Barred from such events, most news organizations will not pay to travel with him. And so a White House policy inclined to secrecy has combined with escalating costs for the strapped news media to let Bush fly under the radar in a way his predecessors could not.
"A lot of it is a reflection of the times," said C-SPAN's Steve Scully, president of the White House Correspondents' Association. "The whole thing is changing."
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It is about time the MSM got treated like exactly what they are. And they are STILL treated way too well, for as anti-American, anti-Bush, anti-EVERYTHING that they are.
Where it's really, really hot, and their makeup is running, and they have to look at Cindy Sheehan and her gang of moonbats.
*laughing*
Notice the slam on "Local" news teams.
The local people just don't know how to put the right spin on breaking news. They are just too far away from the DNC faxed talking points.
Isn't this, you know... kind of the key sentence?
They're too cheap to fly along on their dime so the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, should stay where they are to make it easy for them?
I think they know where that notion should be stored. Then again, maybe they don't.
Dinosaur media, indeed.
"It's really all about money," he said. "It used to be that media organizations had more dough."
LOL!
What is the RAT media crying about? They know where President Bush is going, if they choose not to go there, and miss a major story, that's totally their fault. Talk about BDS.
If a tree falls in the forest and the MSM doesn't report it ... guess what, you media a-holes? IT STILL FRIGGIN' FELL! QUIT PRETENDING NOTHING HAPPENS IF YOU AIN'T THERE!
Can you make the font a little bigger?
Just like the Cheney hunting accident, when Cheney dared to tell the local media instead of the Beltway elitists.
Yep! Bush's fault that reporters aks stoopid questions and can't buy their ticket because all the MSM money went to Dan RATher. But they can trail Cindy and follow white Bronco.
Yep! Bush's fault that reporters aks stoopid questions and can't buy their ticket because all the MSM money went to Dan RATher. But they can trail Cindy and follow white Bronco.
Scott was out of his league. Now the WH Press Corps is out of theirs! :)
Well boo freaking hoo. Give the world a break, STHU.
So? When has the press reported anything worthwhile?
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