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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: FaultLine who started this subject5/9/2004 1:29:33 AM
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About Bush's press conferences. The below from my em inbox:

According to Ron Suskind (in a widely unremarked-upon story at dailytrojan.com about his talk at a USC journalism forum), before each press conference, the White House press secretary asks reporters for their questions, selects six or seven of the questions to answer and those reporters are the only ones called upon during the press conference. Suskind said this system ensures that the president has answers already prepared for questions that he knows will be asked. This explains Bush's odd reference to "must calls" and his statement in response to an unexpected follow-up, "I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it," in last week's press conference. If White House reporters really do have to submit questions for review and then servilely ask those same questions at nationally televised press conferences, this is a journalism scandal that deserves more than college-paper coverage. This seems to be a remarkably telling example of Beltway press types so eager to preserve their "access" that they do whatever the White House wants, essentially becoming script-readers on a national TV campaign commercial. Does anyone else find this extraordinary level of press manipulation, attested to by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, outrageous?
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