Obama’s Efforts to Control Media Are ‘Most Aggressive’ Since Nixon, Report Says

[ZombieHorde]

WIRED: By David Kravets 10.10.13

The President Barack Obama administration has “chilled the flow of information on issues of great public interest,” according to a Thursday report that amounts to an indictment of the president’s campaign pledge of a more open government.

The report from the Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit dedicated to global press freedoms, said Obama has “fallen short” on his promises of a transparent government while at the same time forging ahead with an unprecedented effort — the “most aggressive” since the President Richard M. Nixon administration — to silence government officials and the media at large.

“Six government employees, plus two contractors including Edward Snowden, have been subjects of felony criminal prosecutions since 2009 under the 1917 Espionage Act, accused of leaking classified information to the press—compared with a total of three such prosecutions in all previous U.S. administrations,” said the committee’s report, prepared by Leonard Downie Jr., the former executive editor of The Washington Post.

In a 2008 campaign speech, however, Obama said: “I’ll make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people’s business. No more secrecy.”

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/obama-nixon-media-war/

[Mojorabbit]

1. I am hoping that he will reverse course with this.

I really would love to see a more transparent govt.

[TeamPooka]

2. media is less independent and alot worse and agenda driven than in Nixons day

i do want transoparancy but i also see the need to controlthe narrative with amedia that lets the GOP lie lie lie and not correct a single fcking fact

[Cha]

3. Oh bullshite.. how's that corporate media-WH house jackal press corp

"controlled" by the Obama Admin working out?

Chuck Todd.. MSNBC’s Chuck Todd Says It’s Not His Job To Challenge Republican Lies

The rest..
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/18/msnbcs-chuck-todd-job-challenge-republican-lies.html

Oh yeah, and Everyone Cheered this.. except maybe fuckng jon karl..



Photo of the Day: President Obama ignoring GOP-fake-Benghazi-emails-shill @jonkarl .... delicious:

10:08 AM - 8 Oct 2013

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[BluegrassStateBlues]

4. I trust this administration far more than the media.

Especially after this shutdown fight.

[Heather MC]

5. +1

Corporate Media Can't be trusted
I perfer Democracy Now and TYT

[Jamaal510]

6. Can someone explain why FOX & CNN are still in business, then? eom