MaggieMae
Reality bits
- Apr 3, 2009
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We will just have to disagree. I think the transparency PROMISED by candidate Obama quickly disappeared when he first met criticism as President. I disagree that this administration is any more open or even as open as the previous one. At least 'secret meetings' in the Bush administration that resulted in public policy, regulation, law etc. were bipartisan affairs.
See Willow's thread on Fox News for very clear evidence that the Obama Administration has actively attempted to isolate, marginalize, and even shut down Fox News which is the only widely viewed media source that is reporting on all aspects of the current Congress and the Obama Administration.
No media should be seeking devotion from government. Without a free and unfettered press, history is a reliable guage that we can soon expect to have no freedoms at all.
Blind faith is in part what this thread is all about is it not? An inability to see, recognize, or admit truth that is contrary to what we choose to believe? There are those of us who think that is extremely dangerous when it comes to government action that will affect every part of our lives now and into our childrens' and grandchildrens' futures.
(And I am a C-span junkie.)
I still don't think there is any intent to shut out Fox News. I do believe that the people surrounding Obama try to insulate him from Fox's unabashed bashing of him, and regardless how much valid reporting they might do, you must admit, they are the champions of that. Murdoch admits that Fox did everything in its power to prop up the Bush administration, which gave Fox its reputation of being the most biased news channel to begin with.
Democratic Spin Control Did that Maggie. The only thing FOX has close to Madden, and Olberman is Beck, and he is a recent transplant.
You mean Hannity, O'Reilly, Malkin and all the others are gone?