George Makes The News
WaPo is reporting that Bush has been attempting to tailor the news more to his liking.
What a shock!
I'll only give you the first couple of paragraphs:
Well, when you're engaging in all manner of legally grey area activities, it ought to concern you. However, coming clean on these issues rather than attempting to quash reporting on them is the noble thing to do. No one ever accused Bush of nobility.
These articles have nothing to do with national security, and everything to do with White House damage control.
Given the past and present behavior of this White House, it can hardly come as a surprise that a surprise that The Gang is yet again trying to manage the news.
Bush had a fawning press after 9/11. Apparently he still thought that this was the case - and I'm certain that in many instances this is still true - but now it seems that a glimmer of a working democracy is rearing its head.
Can there be any doubt that 'access' was discussed at these meetings?
How disappointing this must be to the reigning monarch.
Add'l: There's a lot more good stuff in the article. a couple of other topics, and of course added color regarding Bush's tactics.
What a shock!
I'll only give you the first couple of paragraphs:
President Bush has been summoning newspaper editors lately in an effort to prevent publication of stories he considers damaging to national security.(much more at link)
The efforts have failed, but the rare White House sessions with the executive editors of The Washington Post and New York Times are an indication of how seriously the president takes the recent reporting that has raised questions about the administration's anti-terror tactics.
Leonard Downie Jr., The Post's executive editor, would not confirm the meeting with Bush before publishing reporter Dana Priest's Nov. 2 article disclosing the existence of secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe used to interrogate terror suspects. Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, would not confirm that he, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman had an Oval Office sit-down with the president on Dec. 5, 11 days before reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau revealed that Bush had authorized eavesdropping on Americans and others within the United States without court orders.
Well, when you're engaging in all manner of legally grey area activities, it ought to concern you. However, coming clean on these issues rather than attempting to quash reporting on them is the noble thing to do. No one ever accused Bush of nobility.
These articles have nothing to do with national security, and everything to do with White House damage control.
Given the past and present behavior of this White House, it can hardly come as a surprise that a surprise that The Gang is yet again trying to manage the news.
Bush had a fawning press after 9/11. Apparently he still thought that this was the case - and I'm certain that in many instances this is still true - but now it seems that a glimmer of a working democracy is rearing its head.
Can there be any doubt that 'access' was discussed at these meetings?
How disappointing this must be to the reigning monarch.
Add'l: There's a lot more good stuff in the article. a couple of other topics, and of course added color regarding Bush's tactics.
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