Via Drudge: Sun-Times: Journalists Being Shut Out by Obama.
"According to Sun-Times columnist and long-time Chicago journalist, Carol Marin, journalists at Barack Obama news conferences have come to realize that Obama has pre-picked those journalists whom he will allow to ask him questions at the conference and many of them now "don't even bother raising" their hands to be called upon.
One wonders why journalists are allowing this corralling of the press? Would they have allowed George W. Bush to pre-pick journalists like that? Would they meekly sit by and allow themselves to be systematically ignored, their freedom to ask questions silenced by any Republican? Would journalists so eagerly vie with one another for the favor of Bush like they are Obama's?"
Hope and Change!
UPDATE: Obama’s WH Press Corps: “Deferential, eager to please, prepared to keep a careful distance” "The “Obama honeymoon,” as it is being referred to by the Chicago Sun-Times, is getting some help from an incredibly compliant White House press corps that seems to be taking tight management and an unresponsiveness to questions not just in stride, but with a tingly-legged eagerness to offer the incoming President whatever support and sycophantism he needs to look as good as possible on the podium.
The Sun-Times contrasts Obama’s treatment with that of impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich..."
Nice...
