Posted on 12/31/2013 7:36:51 PM PST by Lmo56
After a year of seeing President Obama’s approval ratings plummet, the president’s pollster is offering a strikingly candid and pessimistic New Year’s resolution.
Reporters should go the next “year without reporting any public polling data,” Joel Benenson, president and CEO of Benenson Strategy Group, said.
His comments were made to reporter Mike Allen, who published them in his daily “Politico Playbook” morning newsletter on Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I don’t recall Dems saying this in 2012.
Sounds like something a dictator would decree.
Propaganda Ministry will on require Propaganda
How very...Stalinist...of them.
It will be interesting to see which networks and papers comply. Someone should keep tabs.
The mediots shall obey....
I agree 100%.
I get it! If the Dems have an approval rating of only their Moms, and they end up winning by 80 percentage points, everybody will bet upset. Can’t have that!
This is no surprise.
Hmmm! I wonder what the vermin are trying to hide.
Why we won’t publish photos issued by the White House
By Sandra Duerr
sduerr@thetribunenews.com
December 5, 2013
As journalists, we strive to offer independent coverage — whether it’s breaking news, investigative stories, and individual or business profiles, for example. That includes photos.
Yet the White House has imposed what news organizations, including The Tribune, believe are unprecedented limitations on photojournalists covering President Barack Obama.
Instead of allowing journalists to cover some public events, it’s banning them — then releasing its own photos and videos, using social media to help spread the word.
“Journalists are routinely being denied the right to photograph or videotape the president while he is performing his official duties,” according to the recent letter sent by 38 news organizations to the White House, the Associated Press reported. “As surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist’s camera lens, officials in this administration are blocking the public from having an independent view of important functions of the executive branch of government.”
Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/12/05/2818958/why-we-wont-publish-photos-issued.html#storylink=cpy
MSNBC won’t have the time. They’ll be to busy apologizing
Actually, I’d expect that most the the media will do just that! Minimal response to polls and taking few unless they correspond to their beliefs! Welcome to the new world of politics - media vs the world!
media vs America
LOL! OMG! ROFL! Omigah they are KILLING me! LOL! holy crap! HAHAHHAHH! HAHAHHAHHAAHAHHAHH! LOL! WTF! They GOTTA be smoking CRACK! ROFLASC! (gasp) LOL! OMG! ROFL! LAF! HA! This is the FUNNIEST thing I have EVER heard! LOL LOL LOL! Gah, they gotta be kidding! YGBSM! STOP!!! LOL! ROFLASC! This is too much! LOL! OMG! (gasp) HOO HOO HOOOOOOO! ROFL! LAF! HA! They are on DRUGS! LOL LOL HAHAHHAHH! HAHAHHAHHAAHAHHAHH! LOL! YGBSM! What will they think of next! LOL! ROFLASC! LOL! Waiter, check please! OMG! ROFL! This is fantastic material! LAF! (gasp) HA! HAHAHHAHH! LOL LOL LOL! YGBSM! LOL! Wow! ROFLASC! LOL! Amazing they can come up with this stuff! OMG! ROFL! LAF! TRULY spectacular! HA! STOP you are KILLING ME!!!! LOL LOL LOL! (gasp) YGBSM! Elvis has LEFT THE BUILDING! LOL! ROFLASC! LOL! I know who's responsible: ALIENS! OMG! ROFL! This is something *Pelosi* came up with, ISN'T it??? GASPING for breath over here!! LAF! HA! LOL LOL LOL! Wonderful, wonderful comedy! YGBSM! LOL! ROFLASC! LOL! This is much better than 'Cats'! OMG! ROFL! Holy Toledo! LAF! (gasp) HA! I am GOBSMACKED! LOL LOL LOL! Where's Debbie Wasserman-Shultz! She must be the source of this! YGBSM! LOL! HA! HA! HA! FUNNIEST thing EVER!!!! ROFL! LOL! OMG OMG OMG! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH! (gasp)*
*At this point, all you can do with these people, is point at them and laugh.
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