So Attorney General Eric Holder invited members of the media — some of whom his Justice Department had expressly targeted for surveillance under dubious national-security claims — in for sit-down, and almost nobody came.
The Associated Press, one of Holder’s targets, said no. The New York Post said no. The New York Times said no. CNN said no. Fox News, another target, said no. Even the liberal Huffington Post said no, not if it’s off the record. (Reporters for Politico, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and the Daily News did meet him yesterday.) ------ If the nation’s top cop has anything to say to the American people via the (constitutionally protected) press, let him say it loud and say it proud.
To play along would just continue the cozy little game the administration has been playing with its largely adoring media acolytes, giving favored reporters, columnists and news anchors the sense that — since they all share the same social and political values — they’re on the same team. ------ More chutzpah: The president is now pushing a media “shield law,” similar to those in most states, ostensibly to protect the credentialed members of the media from the very assaults on their integrity that he’s been spearheading. Originally proposed in 2009 and reintroduced by Sen. Chuck Schumer, it’s called (stop laughing) the “Free Flow of Information Act.”
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