White House Threatens to Blacklist Paper for Covering Protest

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/29-9

The San Francisco Chronicle is apparently in trouble with the White House for posting video of a protest against the White House's treatment of suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning. The Chronicle's Carolyn Lochhead reports:

The White House threatened Thursday to exclude the San Francisco Chronicle from pooled coverage of its events in the Bay Area after the paper posted a video of a protest at a San Francisco fundraiser for President Obama last week, Chronicle editor Ward Bushee said. White House guidelines governing press coverage of such events are too restrictive, Bushee said, and the newspaper was within its rights to film the protest and post the video.

:snip of video:

Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci was the designated "pool" reporter at an Obama fundraiser--meaning that her write-up would be shared with other reporters who were not allowed into the event.

But something truly newsworthy happened--and she reported it:

More at the link --

[brewens]

1. OK. Then why don't the blacklist FOX News? n/t

[PassingFair]

2. And we wonder why we only see the propaganda.

"And though we sung his fame, we all went hungry, just the same."

[qb]

3. It's time for reputable news sources (are there any left?) to stand up to this Big Brother bullshit.

:mad:

[originalpckelly]

4. There is no Bradley Manning.

He never existed.

Forget about him.

And don't worry about his treatment, because if someone doesn't exist, you can't mistreat them, right?

:sarcasm:

[Donnachaidh]

9. very much like the *there is no spoon* scene in the Matrix, eh? n/t

[Hutzpa]

5. Ok, how many times are you going to post this?

n/t

[lonestarnot]

Yeah, this is the second time I've seen it.

[Donnachaidh]

8. ooohhh, didn't know hall monitors were being hired

:sarcasm:

First time I've posted it -- but you go right ahead and keep track of posts you don't like :rofl:

[chill_wind]

10. First I've seen it. Not all of us are around 24/7 to monitor

for all the dupes.

[bvar22]

12. First time I've seen ot too.

Thanks to the OP.
:thumbsup:

More "change" we can believe in.

[City Lights]

14. First time I've seen it, so I'm glad it was posted. nt

[ensho]

6. this is so wrong. the W.H. has lost its way

nt

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[ProSense]

11. Didn't the

WH deny this claim nearly a week ago? Yes, they did.

[gratuitous]

16. The White House said "Nuh uh"

Which, in the finest journalistic standards of our day means that the truth lays somewhere in the middle of two mutually exclusive assertions. We'll have to leave it there for now. Next up, Charlie Sheen!

[timesup]

13. Reporting something doesn't make it so...

See Fix News...
Nice try...
I remain skeptical.

[Faryn Balyncd]

15. deja vu?

k and r