While it does sometimes seem as if some in the Mainstream Media are waking up to the damage of this president, we’re not holding our breath on any actual changes in their propagandizing. The man who so outrageously promised to usher in the”most transparent” administration has done, in fact, the exact opposite, blocking even the obsequious media from access and doing end-runs around them. Masterful, really, but it has to on some level hurt the feelings of those who have seen their responsibility as being not to their readers, but to an agenda and this administration in particular.
From VictoryGirl:
I almost feel sorry for the press. I said almost because this is the same press that helped to get Obama elected.. and then reelected. These were the ones who brought us the “chill” or the “thrill” running up or down their leg. This was their guy, the first Black President that would make the planet heal and the oceans rise. This was their Messiah and would be the ONE that would bring us world peace and improve our relations abroad. This is the same press that if they did their job, Obama would not be standing at his teleprompter today.
But now they’re facing this:
Yesterday we learned that the First Lady will be accompanied by her children and her mother on her latest vacation to China. We also learned that the Obama’s have decided to bar reporters from covering the trip. And it appears that those in the press are not so happy with the Obama’s decision to shut them out! The AP has decided that the time has come to fight back against these actions warning that once their access is cut “we will never get it back.”
So what happened to the transparency that Obama promised when he first took office? The main stream media has swooned over Obama for the past 5 years but the Messiah is feeling the heat, his popularity is plunging and that cozy relationship that he had with the media seems to be fizzling as well. Don’t get me wrong, there are still some in the media that are standing strong and defending his every move. Rachel Maddow, for example, will defend him on her death bed with her very last gasp of air. But not all are standing strong as they aren’t too happy about being shut out now that the tide has turned.
The AP claims that the Obama administration has reneged on their promise of transparency also claiming that Obama’s staff is turning to social media as a way to promote Obama’s agenda. At a convention in Denver this week, two of AP’s White House staffers made the claim that Obama’s team often prevents reporters from covering Obama events because they are “hypersensitive” about his image. I guess that would explain as to why Obama’s team would prefer to post all their cutesy pictures on Twitter and Facebook rather than allow the media to actually cover what really goes on during those events.
They betray us in his name, and now he betrays them.
Sorry, no sympathy from us.