Guess not. 'Cause they do it all the time. Like Obama does now.
Joseph Farah tells us about it.
WND won't be permitted to cover the event like other news organizations, even though we pay our dues like everyone else and had pre-paid for tables at the dinner before anyone else, even though we're the oldest of the Internet news organizations and even though we have never before been denied a table at the dinner.
I know it may seem like sour grapes to write another column on this subject. But the matter is actually of much more import than my hurt feelings. Frankly, I don't even like going to these events. They bore me to tears. But, it's my job to cover them. So, try to imagine you belong to a quasi-government association established to bring order to coverage of the White House and that organizations prevents you from doing your job.
Do you see how dangerous that is?
Can you understand how developments like this move us as a nation in the direction of having "official news," state-controlled news, government-approved news and away from the ideals of a free press?
Yup. Only reporters who tell The People what the government wants them to tell them are allowed.
Just like in Red China. Like in Venezuela. Like in Iran. Like in Russia. Etc., etc...
Obama is a dictator. No wonder that in poll after poll, Americans keep on saying in increasing numbers that they're becoming less-and-less free.
Obama lied. Freedom died.
Next thing you know, he'll find an excuse to cancel all elections, and amend the Constitution so that he can be President for life. Why wouldn't he try? He believes he can do anything!
Then once he's in like Flynn forever, what might he do to Americans, especially the inconvenient millions of them?
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I think it's because WND doesn't practice "journalism", Scenty. Like yourself, they're propagandists. I know you don't understand the difference between the two.
So exactly whom do you believe who was invited and allowed to be there... actually practices "journalism", as opposed to being a propaganda mouthpiece/attack dog for the Obamacrat Reich?
They were blacklisted for being especially critical and for reporting the most inconvenient facts which no one else would report. As for when they carried stories that turned out to be wrong, well, which Big Media outlet has never, ever done that? Hmm? Which Big Media outlet is scrupulously just-the-proven-facts-and-nothing-but? Which Big Media outlet never carries fluffy stories and never runs strange advertisements?
Double standard. That's what you practice. Why don't you admit that nobody out there is always perfect, and quit attacking only those who say inconvenient stuff about your Holy Messiah Bammaramma?
And whatever happened to your commitment to free speech, and your staunch opposition to censorship?
You obviously agree with the Obamacrat Reich blacklisting inconvenient newsmedia outlets.
Oooooops! Balbulican's fake mustache slipped and is now oddly crooked and fooling no one!
Apparently it's ok, as far as Balbulican is concerned, for the Obamacrat Reich to blacklist and censor and stuff, but not ok for conservative bloggers like me.
Gotcha.
And I wish you'd agree that Obama's promise to be "open and transparent" is nothing but a big fat lie, 'cause he's been anything but, and is even more closed and opaque than Bush ever was. And getting worse.
"So exactly whom do you believe who was invited and allowed to be there... actually practices "journalism", as opposed to being a propaganda mouthpiece/attack dog for the Obamacrat Reich?"
Well, Fox, for starters.
"As for when they carried stories that turned out to be wrong, well, which Big Media outlet has never, ever done that? Which Big Media outlet is scrupulously just-the-proven-facts-and-nothing-but? Which Big Media outlet never carries fluffy stories and never runs strange advertisements?"
None have never done the above. Unfortunately, WND is not a news outlet. It provides NO balance, makes NO distinction between editorial and "journalistic" coverage, and it's frankly not taken seriously by serious writer of ANY political stripe. It's a useful source for people who fill up ideological blogs and don't care about honesty or accuracy, and that's all. Sorry, dude: but just about every time I've gone to your source and checked back a story, I discover that it's based on significant omissions of fact.
"Why don't you admit that nobody out there is always perfect, and quit attacking only those who say inconvenient stuff about your Holy Messiah Bammaramma"
Smile. Why don't you stop saying such stupid things...or at least find one place, every, anywhere, where I've claimed "anybody out there is always perfect", or whatever? Good grief, Scenty, you're talking like my four year old niece.
"And whatever happened to your commitment to free speech, and your staunch opposition to censorship?"
It more sincere than yours, since I don't censor, edit or block comments, as you have done. And I'm not sure what you're talking about: I think WND should be allowed to write about anything they want, and shouldn't be censored. But this is a function for journalists, not propagandists who write crazy shit about Obama being the Antichrist. Sorry, dude, that's not journalism.
As for the rest - you know, your habit of lumping every single one of your disconnected, stream of consciousness gripes with the universe together in every post is one of the things that make people laugh at you.
Ahhh. Balbulican does not understand the concept of metapatterns. Add Gregory Bateson to your, what must by now be a lengthy, reading list. Mind and Nature should do.
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