Posted on 05/30/2013 5:04:39 AM PDT by RummyChick
Washington (CNN) - Attorney General Eric Holder's plans to sit down with media representatives to discuss guidelines for handling investigations into leaks to the news media have run into trouble.
The Associated Press issued a statement Wednesday objecting to plans for the meetings to be off the record. "If it is not on the record, AP will not attend and instead will offer our views on how the regulations should be updated in an open letter," said Erin Madigan White, the AP's media relations manager.
The New York Times is taking the same position. "It isn't appropriate for us to attend an off-the-record meeting with the attorney general," executive editor Jill Abramson said in a statement.
Like the New York Times and the Associated Press, CNN will decline the invitation for an off-the-record meeting. A CNN spokesperson says if the meeting with the attorney general is on the record, CNN would plan to participate.
The Huffington Post's Washington bureau chief, Ryan Grim, also said he will not attend unless the meeting is on the record. "A conversation specifically about the freedom of the press should be an open one. We have a responsibility not to betray that," Grim told CNN.
But Politico posted an item on its website saying editor-in-chief John Harris plans to attend one of the meetings with Holder.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Some people think this is orchestrated to get us to trust the media again.
I don't really have an opinion yet other than Holder is on the way out.
Attend with a tape recorder. Publish a transcript. Wait for the IRS audit, and put that on the front page when it happens.
Holder’s a pimp daddy.
No comment from Fox or was Fox not invited.
Lapdog rebellion? Or Media in CYA mode? Probably both.
Right.
Print he whole meeting (with appropirate comments) and all.
If questioned, say “I lied”.
After all, they do it too.
“Holder’s a pimp daddy.”
I was just thinking the same thing. Any who attend should be labled as obama and holder’s whores.
I believe the new progressive-speak term is, "I misspoke'.
That fit Politico perfectly!
There is a tipping point
where a democrat politician will be so deeply corrupt that even the MSM cannot protect them because they have to protect their own credibility. (MSNBC may not have a tipping point, because MSNBC doesn’t care about credibility.)
Apparantly Eric Holder has passed that tipping point for the AP, NYT and CNN. But not Politico.
holder is now in contempt of the press. How apropos.
Drudge says the press revolts on Holder’s OTR meeting. I have to agree:
The press is revolting.
Now let's try this again...maybe.
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What...before justice pursues him???
They should demand that C-span broadcast them. Rememebr how the MSM clamored to have the SCOTUS Obamacare debate broadcase LIVE?
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