Posted by Tina
By now we all know that several bigwig stars of the MSM have traveled with Barack Obama to cover the grand tour but apparently they arent getting the access they had counted on. NewsBusters reports on comments made to Chris Mathews during a Hardball segment:
Andrea on Obama Trip: ‘What Some Would Call Fake Interviews’, by Mark Finkelstein NewsBusters
Andrea Mitchell might be a doyenne of the liberal media, but she has her reporter’s pride and principles, both of which have been trampled by the way the Obama campaign has managed the media during the candidate’s current trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. Mitchell let loose on this evening’s Hardball, speaking of “fake interviews” and indicating we don’t know the truth of the trip because we don’t know what was edited out of the video that’s been released. *** MITCHELL: Let me just say something about the message management. He didn’t have reporters with him, he didn’t have a press pool, he didn’t do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq. What you’re seeing is not reporters brought in. You’re seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military, and what some would call fake interviews, because they’re not interviews from a journalist. So, there’s a real press issue here. Politically it’s smart as can be. But we’ve not seen a presidential candidate do this, in my recollection, ever before. (emphasis per NewsBusters)