White House-friendly reporter under scrutiny

[jackschmittusa]

Boston.com

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has provided White House media credentials to a man who has virtually no journalistic background, asks softball questions to the president and his spokesman in the midst of contentious news conferences, and routinely reprints long passages verbatim from official press releases as original news articles on his website.

Now, the question of how Gannon gets into White House press conferences is coming under intense scrutiny from critics who contend that Gannon is not a journalist but rather a White House tool to soften media coverage of Bush. The issue was raised by a media watchdog group and picked up by Internet bloggers, who linked Gannon's presence in White House briefings to recent controversies over whether the administration manipulates the flow of information to the public.

Could this be another part of the pattern of control and manipulation of the media by the administration? Control the press and control the will of the people.

 

[PatboyX]

i posted this as did...conjur, i think. but they werent very intuitive subject names.
and it was darkhawk who posted it. my apologies.


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