Most people do not know or have forgotten that editor's of many of the nation's leading news outlets (NY Times, LA Times, network news, USA Today and the like) met with Obama or his staff, every morning, for most of his first year in office. Turns out that this had nothing to do with "openness." Rather, it had everything to do with Obama's control of the news cycle effecting his administration. And when it became irresistibly obvious that he was no friend of the media, that he had only been using them for his own good, they committed to an about face. What USA Today has to say in the video, below, is true, take that to the bank. Obama's NSA spying on more than 150 different reporters across the board (not just Fox Reporters), his failed prosecution of James Rosen of Fox News and the continued prosecution of NY Times reporter, James Risen, is proof of Obama's opposition to a free press. In fact, it was Risen who first accused the Obama Administration of being an enemy of the press. While I do not feel sorry for the press, I, like so many, welcome the media's new found responsibilities. It is passed time and "about time."
Sounding almost apolgetic, we have this additional bit of news relating to the theme of this post:
As Twitchy reported, outgoing U.S. AG Eric Holder has revealed that if there were one decision he could make over again, he would have “been a little more careful looking at the language that was contained in the filing that we made with the court. [James Rosen] was labeled as a co-conspirator. You had to do that as a result of the statute, but there are ways in which, I think, that could have been differently, done better.”
James Rosen is not impressed and continues to warn of this Administration's willingness to prosecute whistle blowers and the media when it publishes articles of which our resident tyrant does not approve.
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