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The following article was posted on AOL news. I have copied and pasted the part of the article that really disturbed me. There is more in the beginning of the article. Read it. Why doesn't Palin want reporters at her rallies? Why does she continue the Ayers allegations which are not true? And, at the beginning of the article, why is she bringing up items that McCain said were not to be brought up (specifically about Reverand Wright)?
Here is the part I copied and pasted:
In her earlier attacks, Palin had said that Obama "pals around with terrorists." News reports pointed out that Obama was eight years old at the time of Weather Underground bombings and that the two men do not know each other well although they live in the same Chicago neighborhood, have served on a charity board together and Ayers hosted a meet-the-candidate event when Obama first ran for state office in the mid-1990s.
Reporters weren't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park in Clearwater to talk to Palin's audience, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head to where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out, confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?" and turn the person around, Times staff writer Eileen Schulte wrote on the paper's Web site. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written, Schulte reported.
The following article was posted on AOL news. I have copied and pasted the part of the article that really disturbed me. There is more in the beginning of the article. Read it. Why doesn't Palin want reporters at her rallies? Why does she continue the Ayers allegations which are not true? And, at the beginning of the article, why is she bringing up items that McCain said were not to be brought up (specifically about Reverand Wright)?
Here is the part I copied and pasted:
In her earlier attacks, Palin had said that Obama "pals around with terrorists." News reports pointed out that Obama was eight years old at the time of Weather Underground bombings and that the two men do not know each other well although they live in the same Chicago neighborhood, have served on a charity board together and Ayers hosted a meet-the-candidate event when Obama first ran for state office in the mid-1990s.
Reporters weren't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park in Clearwater to talk to Palin's audience, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head to where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out, confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?" and turn the person around, Times staff writer Eileen Schulte wrote on the paper's Web site. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written, Schulte reported.
Sounds like another in the mold of Cheney - secretive, vindictive and inaccessible .
Just what the country needs.
When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written, Schulte reported.
Apparently someone needs to explain the First Amendment to the escort. And probably to Sarah Palin as well.
The following article was posted on AOL news. I have copied and pasted the part of the article that really disturbed me. There is more in the beginning of the article. Read it. Why doesn't Palin want reporters at her rallies? Why does she continue the Ayers allegations which are not true? And, at the beginning of the article, why is she bringing up items that McCain said were not to be brought up (specifically about Reverand Wright)?
Here is the part I copied and pasted:
In her earlier attacks, Palin had said that Obama "pals around with terrorists." News reports pointed out that Obama was eight years old at the time of Weather Underground bombings and that the two men do not know each other well although they live in the same Chicago neighborhood, have served on a charity board together and Ayers hosted a meet-the-candidate event when Obama first ran for state office in the mid-1990s.
Reporters weren't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park in Clearwater to talk to Palin's audience, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head to where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out, confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?" and turn the person around, Times staff writer Eileen Schulte wrote on the paper's Web site. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written, Schulte reported.
A free press is, therefore, one of the foundations of a democratic society, and as Walter Lippmann, the 20th-century American columnist, wrote, "A free press is not a privilege, but an organic necessity in a great society."
Rights of the People: Individual Freedom and the Bill of Rights (http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/rightsof/press.htm - broken link)
St. Petersburg Times. A far, far left-wing rag that hates bush and the republicans. No credbility there.
This sort of reporting is disgraceful! Someone should go burn that cesspool down. For the sake of the children!
"The St. Petersburg Times is a daily newspaper based in St. Petersburg, Florida, that serves the larger Tampa Bay area. It has won six Pulitzers since 1964. It is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism school in St. Petersburg directly adjacent to the University of South Florida campus in St. Petersburg." - wiki
Yeah, sounds, "far, FAR left wing" to me, too. STUDENTS are probably involved! How on earth do they get advertisers in that excessively conservative city with such '"far, far left wing" opinions? Let alone circulation.
. . .In effect, columnists, bloggers, talk-show hosts and digital lamplighters have adopted the ethic of the political consultant: what works, works. It did not matter what Palin said. It only mattered how she said it -- all those doggones, references to her working-class status (net worth in excess of $2 million), promiscuous use of the word "maverick," repeated mentions of "greed and corruption on Wall Street" (Who? Be specific. Give examples. Didn't anyone here go to school?) and, of course, that manic good cheer. Palin knows that the standard is not right or wrong, truth or lie, but the graph that ran under both debaters on CNN, measuring approval, disapproval or, maybe, the blood sugar levels of certain people in their focus group. Things have changed. Might used to make right. Now a wink does. . .
. . .
But John McCain wants us to talk about Barack Obama's acquaintances. He and Sarah Palin are going to try their best to make us talk about anything but the big issues facing our country, because most Americans think Obama's solutions are better than McCain's.
Knowing that, are we in the media going to aid and abet the McCain campaign's obvious ploy?
We journalists like to think we're too smart to be used by one side or the other in a political campaign. In a sense, we're followers of Adam Smith: We believe in an omniscient free marketplace of news in which myriad individual decisions by reporters, editors, photographers, columnists, commentators and media barons -- decisions about what to cover and how to cover it -- somehow miraculously end up maximizing the truth. We claim not to be ideological, but this is our ideology.
At the same time, though, we think of ourselves as working in the public interest. We repeatedly remind everyone that our right to do our jobs however we see fit is enshrined in the First Amendment. We love to quote Thomas Jefferson about how he would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. . .
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