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Title: The Press Can No Longer Afford to Keep Up With the President
Source:
The New York Observer
URL Source: http://www.observer.com/2010/media/ ... -afford-keep-up-with-president
Published: May 24, 2010
Author: Zeke Turner
Post Date: 2010-05-24 16:08:06 by Badeye
Keywords: None
Views: 561
Comments: 4
The Press Can No Longer Afford to Keep Up With the President Email Print More...By Zeke Turner May 24, 2010 | 2:02 p.m Mr. Obama. +Enlarge Getty Images At the end of April members of the White House press corps began to speak out against a perceived lack of access to the president. Now White House correspondents are facing a whole new type of access issue: Their travel budgets have fallen off, making it harder for them to keep up with the president. The number of charter flights for reporters to follow the president on trips has sharply declined in recent months, according to The New York Times. Last year the press spent a total of $18 million on such travel arrangements. Only a dozen reporters are allowed to accompany the president on Air Force One; everyone else--those correspondents "outside the bubble"--traditionally charter a flight together. With news budgets tight, however, reporters are having to fly commercial days in advance, take buses or miss trips altogether. The decision of whether or not to charter a plane comes down to a vote between the five major networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC — and Edwin Chen, president of the White House Correspondents' Association, who gets two votes on behalf of all the other reporters. Things are tighter than ever at the news networks. ABC News recently cut 300 jobs, and CBS and CNN are considering a partnership, which would allow them to share news-gathering resources. “The sole reason is money,” Mr. Chen told The Times.
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Its fun watching the press corps getting fed up with the guy that they voted for, protected throughout the 2008 election cycle. The mainstream press is like that easy girl everybody laid in high school. You like em while you are getting laid, but afterwards you don't want anything to do with her publicly. Thats exactly how Owe-bama is treating them these days. You first saw it last year at the Press Club's annual dinner, when Obama noted 'of course you all voted for me...with the exception of Fox News'. Everybody laughed then. They aren't laughing now. To date, Owe-bama has held less press conferences than Bush or Clinton. While troops die, he's played more golf rounds in 16 months than Bush did in eight years in office. His arrogance, disdain, sense of entitlement, which the press loved when directed at Republicans, is now being seen in use against THEM. If this guy wasn't so fucking dangerous to the nation, it would be amusing as hell.
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