Case in point......
We are not making this up:
Barack Obama was elected commander in chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history.
This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him "Newsmaker of the Year."
The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon.
The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press.
From the president's official schedule:
"Later in the afternoon, the President and the First Lady will attend a reception with the National Newspaper Publisher Association in the State Dining Room, where they will be presented the Newsmaker of the Year award. This event is closed press."
Huh?
Now why would a media outlet host a function "closed to the press"? If it is seemingly an event to simply get some award, what the hell is the big damn deal? Why would a respectable media group even allow such a qualifier for an event?
A long time ago, baseball beat writers were employees of the team and not the paper.
In order to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest, papers began employing the writers. What became the net effect of the change? Nothing? Why?
Because in order for a beat writer to get a scoop on "the big story", they become the whores of various people in the locker room with their own agendas. As a result, ninety-nine percent the stories being proffered by beat writers are about as inane as that of a press release from the ball team.
The same is true here. The traditional news mediums will carry the water for Obama no matter how poorly he treats them because they all want that one touch with greatness. They will whore themselves out in order to "get the big scoop". All the while, Team Obama just abuses them like a pimp abuses his whores.
And people wonder why newspapers are going under.....
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