Veteran Journalists: Today's White House Reporters Are Too Timid

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The press really needs a few reporters who have been around a while, who are extremely knowledgable in the "field" about which they ask questions, with pleasant personalities and who are persistant and quick on the draw. I don't know of any.

Dave Swindell of OR 1:37AM January 19, 2012

The media is controlled by the NWO. O'Barmy is one of their puppets. (He was unheard of just a year before his triumphant election to office.) Therefore O'Barmy is presented to you, the way the NWO wants him to be. Understand, the NWO controls the money supply and the information supply. You control your bladders, and some of you cannot even do that properly.

anonymouse 10:49AM May 31, 2011

Well, I can't watch FOX anymore. It used to be the last best place for hard news and features, but it's succumbed to a diversion the White House apparently set up for it, by now following Obama around and reporting on everything little thing he does.
That's right, they've been successfully bamboozled. They've become Obama butt sniffers.
The wife and I can't stand that Obama is ALWAYS ON on every other cable station, as if like a great dictator he needs to constantly reassure the public he's in charge and totally on-top-of-things. But FOX? Really, we expected more of them.
It's not so much that everything about FOX is derivative of an ALERT!, which is grown maddening, but now they've taken to showing OBAMA everywhere he goes, showing EVERYTHING he does (why aren't they outside the toilet, or is that for TMZ?), breaking down everything he says and chewing the endless cud of all his diversionary practices.
It seems he really does exist as a diversion at times, doesn't it. Like getting downbraided by Netanyahu, etc. What president would set themselves up for that?
No, I don't like this man. I think he's the tool of a regime.
But be that as it may, FOX is done for, which means television as I grew up with it is also done for. The newspapers have already gone the route in telling us what to believe, and now Fox has become Obama sniffers. Which is what he does for the regime.
He wins, we lose.

Roger Ffolkes of NM 7:44PM May 23, 2011

The Problem With The So Called Forth Branch Of Government aka The U.S. Media Is That They Are More Interested In Who Is Screwing Who, Instead Of The Issues That Screw Us All...
Let's Get One Thing Straight Their Are NO REPUBLICAN ISSUES OR DEMOCRATIC ISSUES, THEIR ARE ONLY ISSUES THAT EFFECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
Your Job As A Reporter Is To Investigate, Ask The Tough Questions And Report The News! I Don't Care What You Think, How You Feel, Or What You Would Do, Just Report The News!
While In The Forth Branch Of Government Is Courting Their Political Party, It's The American People Who End Up Getting Screwed!
Mr. Davis You're Right! Whether You're Watching The News Or A Presidental News Conference You're Attending A Viewing, It's The Death Of The Forth Branch Of Government!
The U.S. Media Is A Joke To The American People And To The World, And Theirs Is Nothing Funny About That!
Stacey Bridges
Native Of Northern Virginia
Widowed 1 Year, 5 Months, 17 Days And Counting...
Witness To The Pharmaceutical Genocide Perpetrated On The American People Then Advertised On National TV

Stacey Bridges of VA 9:39AM May 23, 2011

John of Ga has some of it right. What he misses entirely is that the media doesn't demand the truth from either side. We are lied to by both sides and frequently it is done in the name of national honor(rofl).
Why do we treat our elected officials like royalty? Didn't we go to war over that?

alinmaine of ME 6:05PM May 22, 2011

All you have to do is listen to Fox. If you think the Fox program is unbiased, balanced news, you are missing the point. The Fox program does not even try to be balanced and most people are aware that position. I listen to some of the Fox program (this is not news) to get the GOP prospective on current issues. The other stations that actually present the news are not that good either, but are at least somewhat balanced. Overall, they lean a little more to the left. I prefer to get the news without someone's opinion added, just provide the news and I will decide.

beacon56 of CA 12:13AM May 22, 2011

Offer us some examples of the differences between the questioning of liberals and the questioning of Conservatives?

ann keenan of MI 12:07AM May 22, 2011

The MSM has it right in one respect. When a politician speaks the MSM should assume he or she is lying. When a politician proposes a program or plan it is probably self serving on some level. If an elected official says a problem is caused by A the MSM should examine B. The point is, always distrust every word that comes out of a politicians mouth. Make politicians prove everything they say, every time they say it.
The Media does this. The only problem is they only do it for one side. The MSM gets it half right.

john of GA 6:15PM May 21, 2011

Greg Gutfeld: Obama's Media Honeymoon Lasting Longer Than Most Marriages
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/05/21/greg-gutfeld-obamas-media-honeymoon-lasting-longer-most-marriages

StewartIII of MD 1:58PM May 21, 2011

Most journalist majors in college have very strong liberal views. Upon graduation, they shave the beard, cut their hair, put on a suit of clothes and pass themselves off as true independent minded professionals, yet just watch and compare the questioning toward likeminded liberal subjects, vs conversatives, I get embarrassed at the obvious. Our fourth branch of govt (MSM) is failing us.

J. B. of KY 11:51AM May 20, 2011