"I'm not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to a

[cme2bleve]

fare-thee-well...."? "For the town halls, for press conferences. It's blatant. They don't give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame."
White House correspondent Helen Thomas on Obama's 'impartail' town hall meetings....

Gee, those are words that will ring through the ages like the Gettysburg Address... The day the press finally starts saying ENOUGH!!!

Would everyone give me a Hail Oz-bama??? (Don't look behind the teleprompter cause there's no one there...)

[Meg]

It seems to me that every administration manages the news more/better than their predecessor because the learn from them more effective ways to do it. It is something that administrations want to do, and the fact that they are so successful is a failure of the reporters and the media, and they are the ones that should be hanging their heads in shame.