Quote approval is standard practice for the Obama campaign, used by many top strategists and almost all midlevel aides in Chicago and at the White House....They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.

The Romney campaign insists that journalists interviewing any of Mitt Romney’s five sons agree to use only quotations that are approved by the press office. And Romney advisers almost always require that reporters ask them for the green light on anything from a conversation that they would like to include in an article.

Back in the early 1980s, approximately 50 corporations essentially had nearly total control of the media in the United States. Today, just six monolithic media corporations dominate virtually everything you watch, hear and read. These six gigantic corporations own television networks, publishing houses, movie studios, newspapers, radio stations, music labels and video game companies. Most Americans are absolutely addicted to information and entertainment, and those six massive corporations supply the vast majority of the information and entertainment that Americans take in.

Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
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Your headline is completely misleading, as well as a violation of ATS' T&C that state your headline should match the article you are using.

Let's say you are a public official and someone wants to interview you. Do you want to ensure that they are not twisting what you say, and have a condition that you approve any quotes attributed to you, or do you just let them write whatever they want and hope they don't misquote you? This has absolutely nothing to do with your sensationalized, and misleading headline.

Originally posted by watchitburn
This story can also be found Here

Originally posted by watchitburn

Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
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Your headline is completely misleading, as well as a violation of ATS' T&C that state your headline should match the article you are using.

Let's say you are a public official and someone wants to interview you. Do you want to ensure that they are not twisting what you say, and have a condition that you approve any quotes attributed to you, or do you just let them write whatever they want and hope they don't misquote you? This has absolutely nothing to do with your sensationalized, and misleading headline.

I have no idea how that last link got on there it should have been this: Source

But seeing how this was in fact posted in the OP:

Originally posted by watchitburn
This story can also be found Here

I am not in violation of anything since I posted the title exactly as it appears on the source.

Also, No. You are completely wrong. In case you failed to understand what the article is saying. If the journalists do not let the interviewees dictate what quotes they use, then they will not be granted any more interviews.

This, I think is one of the main problems with the Government, politicians are not held accountable for what they say, or much of anything for that matter. Which is why we are seeing so much corruption and cronyism going on.

Next question.

Originally posted by watchitburn
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I suppose you could say that I cherry picked, in that I didn't want to use Infowars as the only source. So I used the source that they got it from. And they called it for what it is. Establishment hacks forcing edits to make themselves sound better. So I guess my "character" is to wade through the BS and get to the point.

I did read what you said and I don't think you are getting it. I understand what you are saying about twisting words to fit an agenda. That's how we have ended up with these ridiculous partisan media outlets.
But no one is talking about twisting words except the politicians. The story is talking about printing what was said. And that is the way it should be. So yes you are still wrong.

It sounds to me like you think they should be allowed to hide who they really are from the public. Explain to me how printing exactly what they said is a bad thing.

There is an old saying "Know what you say, and say what you mean".

Originally posted by watchitburn
By a show of hands, who here is surprised to hear this?.............I didn't think so.

So Jeremy W. Peters wrote this story in the NY Times admitting that anything you hear on the MSM gets filtered through the campaigns PR offices before it can be reported on.

Quote approval is standard practice for the Obama campaign, used by many top strategists and almost all midlevel aides in Chicago and at the White House....They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.

The Romney campaign insists that journalists interviewing any of Mitt Romney’s five sons agree to use only quotations that are approved by the press office. And Romney advisers almost always require that reporters ask them for the green light on anything from a conversation that they would like to include in an article.

So the print media is playing lapdog to the campaigns which has been blatant for as long as I can remember, just like the 24 hr news channels. I think the cable news has gotten especially out of control with this nonsense the last few years. I think I would give them some brownie points if they just changed their names to "republican or democrat propaganda channel", at least they would be being honest about something.

This story was published about a week ago, funny...none of the other MSM outlets thought this was worth discussing.

From one of the other sources:

Back in the early 1980s, approximately 50 corporations essentially had nearly total control of the media in the United States. Today, just six monolithic media corporations dominate virtually everything you watch, hear and read. These six gigantic corporations own television networks, publishing houses, movie studios, newspapers, radio stations, music labels and video game companies. Most Americans are absolutely addicted to information and entertainment, and those six massive corporations supply the vast majority of the information and entertainment that Americans take in.

What are your thoughts on this? Any way we'll ever see some journalistic integrity ever again?

This story can also be found Here and Here.

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns routinely demand that reporters consent to quote approval when giving interviews. If the reporters agree, quotations from campaign officials, advisers and candidates’ family members have to be sent to a press aide for the final go-ahead. Quotes sent back to reporters are often edited for style and clarity.