White House boasts: We 'control' news media, page 1

Communications chief offers shocking confession to foreign government
TEL AVIV – President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.

www.wnd.com...

and the video of the conference...

This should be no surprise to the people on ATS. The whitehouse controls everything that is reported in the news media these days. There is one rogue media outlet that they are trying to get under control. Fox News.

Fox News will not play their game and the Obama administration is on the offensive to try to bring them down.

www.foxnews.com...

Never before in my life have I ever heard of the federal government trying to silence a news station that is critical of them. It really says alot about how much they are worried about the real truth getting out instead of the controlled spin on the issues coming out of the Whitehouse.

Unbelievable times we live in.

reply to post by Erasurehead

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Fox News a "rogue media outlet"?

Please for your own sake and that of your country, go and Google "Rupert Murdoch" or for that matter just try and remember more than a year and a half back.

Fox News are NOT rogue and they are certainly NOT on the side of the people, although they are very good at being populist and making it seem like they are in there with the "grass roots" (Astroturf)

If people continue believing that it's "the liberal media" versus "the conservative media" or whatever you want to call it, then America is truly screwed...

reply to post by Rhetoric

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errr...at least journalists were able to question president Bush, but now they can't question president Obama.

Not to mention that the media was on a daily Bush bash, complaining from his accent, he is not the only Texan that says the word "nuclear" like he does, to making pauses when he was asked questions as a sign that he wasn't smart...

Then we had President Obama make claims, on more than one occasion when asked how many states in the Republic he had visited he responded that he visited 57 states, that there was one he still needed to visit, and two more he could not visit, or wasn't allowed, among some other clear signs that this man has no idea even on what country he is living, yet he is president of such country and the media for the most part idolize him to no end...

Oh and BTW, EVERY country was at first claiming Saddam had WMD, even Clinton was saying the same thing even after our forces had invaded Iraq...

But of course, it was only Bush who claimed Saddam had wmd...

Anyway...let's not derail the thread....

Oh and btw, before people start claiming that i am a Bush fan, I disagreed with him not controlling our borders better, not to mention that at the end he claimed there were no wmd when there were clear signs that there were and they were moved. The government even fired a U.S. official for telling the public that the Russian government was the one that helped Saddam move it's wmd, and this man had proof of it, as it was his job in the government to check what Saddam's regime was doing, and the reason he was given of why he was demanded to resign was that he had given information to the public which he shouldn't have given, or something like that. There were other things which I disagreed with of what president Bush did. But again I don't want to derail this thread.



[edit on 19-10-2009 by ElectricUniverse]

Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Yes, Anita Dunn DID use the words "control" and "making" but you'll need to listen to the video or find the complete quotes in context to see what she actually said.

I'm know this might shock you, but I think I actually agree with you on this one. Read this article on the video and then watch the video.

I can't say that I disagree with the President's policy of circumventing the media. The President could lie or make things up in a press briefing and control the media that way just as easily. No, he's just skipping the traditional media filter. Can't say that I disapprove of this at all. The media's coverage usually stinks anyway.


EDIT: My favorite conservative talk show host, Michael Medved, refers to WND as "World Nut Daily". I agree. They're so extreme that it embarrassing to conservatism. Please don't believe that this is how the right thinks.

[edit on 19-10-2009 by dbates]

reply to post by wanderingwaldo

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So why would you:
a) spend time reading the thread
b) responding?

wouldnt someone who is sick of these threads not comment on them, but im glad ive got the opinion of some random guy. That really makes a difference, thanks for adding absolutly nothing!!

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