Under the rubric of 'knowing on which side your bread is buttered.....'
1. "CNN sues President Trump and White House for banning reporter Jim Acosta"
CNN sues President Trump and White House for banning reporter Jim Acosta
And....in related stories, sans lawsuits....
2. “But Trump's anti-press bluster aside, there's a clear blueprint to follow — courtesy of Barack Obama, who once claimed that he would be the most transparent president ever but proved to be no friend to press rights.
Under Obama, the Justice Department subpoenaed the telephone records of AP journalists as investigators pursued a leak.
…what happened under Obama set an ominous tone for reporters who were trying to do their jobs of informing the public.
So did the Obama administration's record-breaking use of an arcane century-old law — the Espionage Act — which it used nine times to pursue leakers.” Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was made by Obama
3. “Weeks before President Barack Obama was to leave office, [James] Risen wrote in the Times, “If Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.”
The Obama administration's aggressiveness on this front mushroomed into a scandal in spring 2013, as revelations surfaced that the Justice Department had subpoenaed two months’ worth of phone records of Associated Press journalists, and that it had named James Rosen, then of Fox News, as a potential co-conspirator in a criminal leak as it pursued his reportorial records.
Which is to say that entangling the media in leak investigations isn’t a Trump-era outrage; there’s nothing here for Trump to “normalize.”
Opinion | Seizing journalists’ records: An outrage that Obama ‘normalized’ for Trump
4. “…many journalism groups say the record is clear. Over the past eight years, the administration has prosecuted nine cases involving whistle-blowers and leakers, compared with only three by all previous administrations combined. It has repeatedly used the Espionage Act, a relic of World War I-era red-baiting, not to prosecute spies but to go after government officials who talked to journalists.
Under Mr. Obama, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have spied on reporters by monitoring their phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to other reporters to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify in criminal cases.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/...ld-trump-targets-journalists-thank-obama.html
5. “…about the media that undercut Obama’s credibility with the absurd claim that he — unlike Trump — didn’t “threaten the freedom of the press.” Baloney.” http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...obama-trump-media-leakers-20180910-story.html
Which reminds us that the only place on finds justice is the dictionary and the cemetery.
1. "CNN sues President Trump and White House for banning reporter Jim Acosta"
CNN sues President Trump and White House for banning reporter Jim Acosta
And....in related stories, sans lawsuits....
2. “But Trump's anti-press bluster aside, there's a clear blueprint to follow — courtesy of Barack Obama, who once claimed that he would be the most transparent president ever but proved to be no friend to press rights.
Under Obama, the Justice Department subpoenaed the telephone records of AP journalists as investigators pursued a leak.
…what happened under Obama set an ominous tone for reporters who were trying to do their jobs of informing the public.
So did the Obama administration's record-breaking use of an arcane century-old law — the Espionage Act — which it used nine times to pursue leakers.” Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was made by Obama
3. “Weeks before President Barack Obama was to leave office, [James] Risen wrote in the Times, “If Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.”
The Obama administration's aggressiveness on this front mushroomed into a scandal in spring 2013, as revelations surfaced that the Justice Department had subpoenaed two months’ worth of phone records of Associated Press journalists, and that it had named James Rosen, then of Fox News, as a potential co-conspirator in a criminal leak as it pursued his reportorial records.
Which is to say that entangling the media in leak investigations isn’t a Trump-era outrage; there’s nothing here for Trump to “normalize.”
Opinion | Seizing journalists’ records: An outrage that Obama ‘normalized’ for Trump
4. “…many journalism groups say the record is clear. Over the past eight years, the administration has prosecuted nine cases involving whistle-blowers and leakers, compared with only three by all previous administrations combined. It has repeatedly used the Espionage Act, a relic of World War I-era red-baiting, not to prosecute spies but to go after government officials who talked to journalists.
Under Mr. Obama, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have spied on reporters by monitoring their phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to other reporters to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify in criminal cases.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/...ld-trump-targets-journalists-thank-obama.html
5. “…about the media that undercut Obama’s credibility with the absurd claim that he — unlike Trump — didn’t “threaten the freedom of the press.” Baloney.” http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...obama-trump-media-leakers-20180910-story.html
Which reminds us that the only place on finds justice is the dictionary and the cemetery.
