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In reply to the discussion: President Obama and the Michael Brown case [View all]H2O Man
(73,537 posts)63. I'd suggest looking
at JFK's (failed) attempts at prior restraint at the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, before investing in the rosy histories. Did these journalists enjoy JFK during press conferences? Did he have great skills in building personal friendships with individual reporters? Certainly. But it is fiction -- and that's giving it the benefit of the doubt -- to pretend that JFK and RFK had a history of rescuing reporters who faced confrontations while reporting on the Civil Rights struggle, etc. In fact, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever, to indicate President Kennedy (or Ike or LBJ) would be doing anything differently than President Obama is now.
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How about when photojournalists (like the photographer for Getty Images just now) are
VanGoghRocks
Aug 2014
#11
So the President doesn't have a role when journalists are being arrested for
VanGoghRocks
Aug 2014
#23
Well, I'd expect a president to direct the DoJ to ensure that no journalist is
VanGoghRocks
Aug 2014
#31
Do you support the arrest and incarceration of journalists plying their trade? Yay
VanGoghRocks
Aug 2014
#36
By my count, last night, 4 journalists were arrested and held (photographer
VanGoghRocks
Aug 2014
#49
I've sort of lost sight by now of what this whole kerfluffle was about. Seems to me it was about
VanGoghRocks
Aug 2014
#59
I think there's a sometimes a gulf between what he can and should say and the effect of that
bigtree
Aug 2014
#61
i agree but i think there is more also, he got a lot of negative attacks for just talking
JI7
Aug 2014
#14
"Some wanted him to act like Robert F. Kennedy after assassination of Martin Luther King Jr."
BumRushDaShow
Aug 2014
#37
The issue is not about him speaking out on every case--he can't do that, obviously;
Jackpine Radical
Aug 2014
#57
I've developed zero tolerance for those who post just to pick on my nerves and insult me
bigtree
Aug 2014
#48