FINALLY THE PRESS MAKES A STEP TOWARD INDEPENDENCE... For decades, - TopicsExpress



          

FINALLY THE PRESS MAKES A STEP TOWARD INDEPENDENCE... For decades, pool reporters--a single scribe covering a presidential event (golf game or a date night or hurricane victim sympathy session) for other reporters too busy to follow POTUS--transmitted their news stories to other media outlets using a distribution system maintained by the White House. In the Obama years, this became contentious as Obama aides refused to send reports that failed to meet its censorship requirements. Mostly minor edits, to be sure. But why let the subject edit your news copy? Now, it looks like they are testing their own distribution system. Good. Now for the content to become more skeptical of the powerful in general...
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:26:48 +0000

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