Obama administration most ‘dangerous’ to media in history - The Washington Post

At some point, a compendium of condemnations against the Obama administration’s record of media transparency (actually, opacity) must be assembl...

Ikke angivet Ikke angivet,

21/01/2017

At some point, a compendium of condemnations against the Obama administration’s record of media transparency (actually, opacity) must be assembled.

Notable quotations in this vein come from former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who said, “It is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering”;

New York Times reporter James Risen, who said, “I think Obama hates the press”;

and CBS News’s Bob Schieffer, who said, “This administration exercises more control than George W. Bush’s did, and his before that.”

USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page has added a sharper edge to this set of knives. Speaking Saturday at a White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) seminar, Page called the current White House not only “more restrictive” but also “more dangerous” to the press than any other in history, a clear reference to the Obama administration’s leak investigations and its naming of Fox News’s James Rosen as a possible “co-conspirator” in a violation of the Espionage Act.