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ABC's Jake Tapper Asks Gibbs Why It's Appropriate For White House To Decide Who's A News Org.
Newsbusters.org ^ | 10-20-09 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 10/20/2009 3:50:15 PM PDT by Justaham

On Tuesday, another prominent media member challenged the White House strategy of attacking the Fox News Channel.

This time up at the plate was ABC's Jake Tapper who asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs during today's gaggle:

It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one?

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To: Justaham

Censorship is coming.

Will the media welcome it or fight it?


61 posted on 10/20/2009 6:55:58 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: unkus

I did not see it either. “I do not know what I do not know”. Glad it was posted again.


62 posted on 10/20/2009 7:05:38 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)
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To: MediaMole

I would think that some of the mega-egos in Hollywood will also rebel against being told how to write their scripts.


63 posted on 10/20/2009 7:18:57 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Kimberly GG
Actually, the press credential issue has been addressed, but I can’t remember where I read about it....

This issue first came up during the Clinton administration.

At the time, World Net Daily was leading the charge for alternative news outlets. Congress (or their "organization of journalists" as you refer to) decided that WND was not an accredited news organization and refused to give them press passes to the Congress galleries. Up to that point, WND was getting daily passes, but they wanted the same accredited passes that the NYT, WaPo, NBC, ABC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, et. al., were getting.

WND was being singled out at the time because of the reporting of Paul Sperry. Sperry reported on several hot issues for Clinton: 1) Lewinsky, 2) Sperry embarrassed Clinton during a White House Easter Egg event for the families of WH staffers, 3) the missing Gore emails and missing backups, 4) the intentionally downgraded phone systems in the WH that can't show which specific telephone placed a specific call.

WND was refused permanent accreditation, and a fight ensued. WND eventually won a permanent press pass. They probably didn't realize it at the time, but they were legitimizing the alternative media for everyone else to come.

Today's result? Obama chooses a Huffington Post "reporter" to ask a question at a White House press conference.

-PJ

64 posted on 10/20/2009 7:24:12 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
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To: Justaham

You’re welcome, FRiend.


65 posted on 10/20/2009 7:26:14 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Justaham

Jake, Jake, Jake... Here’s a helpful hint from Wise old Ape... folks like you ended up on the same boxcars as the rest of us. A bit later, maybe. But, on the car all the same. Think, boy!


66 posted on 10/20/2009 7:47:44 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Never on my watch; potlatch

It’s easy for a Gibbs to use ad hominem attacks on Glenn and Sean. Not so easy for him to state just how they are incorrect in what they assert. The left wants to use subtle (and not so subtle) signals to discourage viewers from turning on an “uncool” or “politically correct” show. Their goal is to silence the truthtellers. FReepers won’t fall for it, but we really need to work on our friends and neighbors.


67 posted on 10/20/2009 7:52:45 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
Spot the difference: Hugo Chavez Administration, Obama Administration .

Done -- and fixed.

 

 

 

 

 

  (Alphabetical order...)

68 posted on 10/20/2009 8:45:57 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: Pan_Yan

The communist defector said, the reporters think they will be safe, but they will be among the first to fall. They won’t see it coming. The government will come after them swiftly. And they won’t understand it when it happens, because they will think they will be safe.

What was his name, again?

Help me!


69 posted on 10/20/2009 9:38:20 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Keith in Iowa

“Tapper’s days at the WH numbered after this?”

Tapper was the first reporter to challenge Gibbs concerning the issue of “transparency” in the first weeks of this administration.
I thought back then he wasn’t going to be with ABC much longer - but here it is now - October. He’s still there.


70 posted on 10/20/2009 9:44:12 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

Golitsyn?


71 posted on 10/20/2009 9:45:15 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace ( There was a hole here. It's gone now)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Yuri Bezmenov [ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1 ]
72 posted on 10/20/2009 9:48:58 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

No, that wasn’t his name, but thank you.

He worked in India, left there. Lived in Canada. Worked at a university.

If my husband was up, he could tell me. His first name was Yuri, I believe. But, that is a common name. He went by another, western name.

Anyway, he gave a series of talks, wrote a book and explained how the communist system worked. And he talked about how the communists used the media.

And sometimes I truly believe that Obama and company is playing the media like a violin.


73 posted on 10/20/2009 9:49:16 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: MHGinTN

Yes, thank you! You’re a gem!


74 posted on 10/20/2009 9:49:38 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Naw, I just have it linked at my blog page. ;^)
75 posted on 10/20/2009 9:51:40 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Justaham
Notice how the word “CENSORSHIP” has not been uttered by anyone throughout this whole fiasco?

Remember them lambasting Ari Fleisher and Tony Snow about not answering their questions? Remember the bullying and innuendo regarding anything President Bush ever did or said?

Too bad the Ignorant American People allow themselves to be controlled by the Sycophant Libtard Media this way.

76 posted on 10/20/2009 9:57:39 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Conservatives THINK people are smart. Liberals KNOW people are stupid.)
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To: Justaham
Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one?

The dictator decides what's appropriate, Jake.

77 posted on 10/20/2009 10:02:47 PM PDT by taraytarah
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To: Justaham

It’s so embarrassing that this little swine Gibbs graduated with my same class at N.C. State.


78 posted on 10/20/2009 10:13:07 PM PDT by ponygirl ("I can see the Olympic Stadium from my house!" - Barack Obama)
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To: grey_whiskers
Hugo weighs more (than Barack). Don't know about Michele.

At the very least, Michele can bench more than Hugo.

79 posted on 10/20/2009 10:17:25 PM PDT by ponygirl ("I can see the Olympic Stadium from my house!" - Barack Obama)
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To: reader25
The White House has determined that Jake Trapper is no longer a journalist and therefore has revoke his Press Pass.

you ARE joking right?

80 posted on 10/20/2009 10:21:06 PM PDT by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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