Palin bans reporters from meetings with leaders

[TomC]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_el_pr/palin_leaders

NEW YORK - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is banning reporters from her first meetings with world leaders, allowing access only to photographers and a television crew.
 
Palin plans to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in New York on Tuesday.

The TV producer, print and wire reporters in the press pool that follows the Alaska governor were told at the start of the day they would not be admitted with the photographers and camera crew when they are taken in to photograph the meetings.

At least two news organizations, including The Associated Press, objected and were told that the decision had already been made and was not subject to discussion.

[daboese]

If you are stupid, you don't want anyone to see that you are.
It's as simple as that.

[TomC]

Or if one candidate doesn't want to talk to the media, make it look like the running mate is really, really avoiding the media.

[Thomas Jackson]

Good, I would have done the same thing after the smear campaign that the driveby media engaged in.

[daboese]

Examples?
Anything untrue the media wrote about her?

Probably you just don't want to believe she is like Bush, Ghostmonkey.
Don't deny the obvious.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Examples?
Anything untrue the media wrote about her?

Probably you just don't want to believe she is like Bush, Ghostmonkey.
Don't deny the obvious.

How about, for starters, the front page New York Times story claiming Palin to be a member of the Alaska Independence Party.

[Sbane]

Examples?
Anything untrue the media wrote about her?

Probably you just don't want to believe she is like Bush, Ghostmonkey.
Don't deny the obvious.

How about, for starters, the front page New York Times story claiming Palin to be a member of the Alaska Independence Party.

Her husband is a member but whatever. I wonder what would happen if Michelle Obama was a part of some seperatist black political group.......

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

This just proves she much smarter than I thought she was......political reporting so god awful.

[Thomas Jackson]

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Media Myth (Bold face lie): "Palin said Iraq was a task from God." OH NOES!!!1111 SHEZ A CRUZADERZ@!121111

Fact: Palin actually said: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

Media Myth: Palin banned books!!! OH NOES1!1!!!1 SHEZ A BOOKZ BURNERZ!!!11!43123

Fact (From the Anchorage Daily News): "Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so. According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn’t fully support her and had to go. Emmons had been city librarian for seven years and was well liked. After a wave of public support for her, Palin relented and let Emmons keep her job. It all happened 12 years ago and the controversy long ago disappeared into musty files. Until this week. Under intense national scrutiny, the issue has returned to dog her. It has been mentioned in news stories in Time Magazine and The New York Times and is spreading like a virus through the blogosphere. The stories are all suggestive, but facts are hard to come by. Did Palin actually ban books at the Wasilla Public Library? …Were any books censored banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed.    Pinell-Stephens also had no record of any phone conversations with Emmons about the issue back then. Emmons was president of the Alaska Library Association at the time."

Media Myth: "Palin was a member of the AIP." OH NOES!!11!!!! SHEZ A CONFEDERATEZ!!11!!!1

Fact: Palin was never a member of the AIP. She once recorded a polite video addressing their convention which emphasized POLITICAL COMPETITION, as in she was a member of a competing political party.

Media Myth: "Palin cut special needs funding." OH NOES11!!1!1 SHEZ HEARTLESS HIPOCRITZ!!!

Fact: Palin RAISED special needs funding 175%

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[daboese]

Which source?
You can take that from any blog and put it here, I would not call that media.

And the NYT is a highly regarded newspaper, I think that they have run into trouble for posting such a story.

[Thomas Jackson]

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The NYT had the AIP lie as a front page story. They later buried a retraction on their blog.

Every media outlet out there (including the NYT) has repeated the "task from God" lie.

The Washington Monthly was the source of the lie about special needs funding.

[Sbane]

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The NYT had the AIP lie as a front page story. They later buried a retraction on their blog.

Every media outlet out there (including the NYT) has repeated the "task from God" lie.

The Washington Monthly was the source of the lie about special needs funding.

Her husband is a part of the AIP so imo it is a valid issue. They should have clarified that Palin herself is not a member. The "task from god" comment I think I understand but to us unreligious, it sounds as if she is saying Iraq is god's will. Apparently that is how she prays so whatever. And the book banning thing I cannot excuse her from. Why the f**k would anyone want to ban books? Ridiculous.

[daboese]

And?
There were lies on Obama in the media as well- media get, when confronted with a new face, things wrong from time to time.
It does not make sense to boycot them because they write things you do not like. Especially politicians have to live with them.

[Thomas Jackson]

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The NYT flat out lied in the AIP story. No ifs, ands or buts.

The "task from God" comment is another flat out lie. A purposeful and blatant lie.

Palin never banned any books. No books were banned from the library. Unlike what the media has claimed.

[Thomas Jackson]

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I can't recall any blatant front page lies about Obama in the NYT. I can't recall any organized CNN/NBC/ABC/CBS/MSNBC/NYT/LA TIMES/WASHINGTON POST smear campaign against Obama either.

[Sbane]

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The NYT flat out lied in the AIP story. No ifs, ands or buts.

The "task from God" comment is another flat out lie. A purposeful and blatant lie.

Palin never banned any books. No books were banned from the library. Unlike what the media has claimed.

Her husband is a part of AIP, something all Americans should know. The "task from god" statement does sound scary. And again why would she even think about banning books?

[daboese]

None of these stories were a blatant lie, they were all distortions of the truth.
And again, the same has happened with Obama and almost any other politician.
She just can't take the heat.

[J. J.]

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Media Myth (Bold face lie): "Palin said Iraq was a task from God." OH NOES!!!1111 SHEZ A CRUZADERZ@!121111

Fact: Palin actually said: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

Media Myth: Palin banned books!!! OH NOES1!1!!!1 SHEZ A BOOKZ BURNERZ!!!11!43123

Fact (From the Anchorage Daily News): "Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so. According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn’t fully support her and had to go. Emmons had been city librarian for seven years and was well liked. After a wave of public support for her, Palin relented and let Emmons keep her job. It all happened 12 years ago and the controversy long ago disappeared into musty files. Until this week. Under intense national scrutiny, the issue has returned to dog her. It has been mentioned in news stories in Time Magazine and The New York Times and is spreading like a virus through the blogosphere. The stories are all suggestive, but facts are hard to come by. Did Palin actually ban books at the Wasilla Public Library? …Were any books censored banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed.    Pinell-Stephens also had no record of any phone conversations with Emmons about the issue back then. Emmons was president of the Alaska Library Association at the time."

Media Myth: "Palin was a member of the AIP." OH NOES!!11!!!! SHEZ A CONFEDERATEZ!!11!!!1

Fact: Palin was never a member of the AIP. She once recorded a polite video addressing their convention which emphasized POLITICAL COMPETITION, as in she was a member of a competing political party.

Media Myth: "Palin cut special needs funding." OH NOES11!!1!1 SHEZ HEARTLESS HIPOCRITZ!!!

Fact: Palin RAISED special needs funding 175%

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"Sweet Sarah Palin being attacked by those mean Democrats and their leftist lapdogs the liberal media."

[daboese]

I never know if his statement is meant in an ironic fashion or not.

[TomC]

Perhaps if she'd answer questions, they'd have the right answers.

[daboese]

That would be too easy. They have to blame someone if they loose.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Palin press may boycott UN conference Kenneth P. Vogel
1 hour, 11 minutes ago
 


NEW YORK – Journalists, displeased with Sarah Palin’s efforts to restrict their access to her, are threatening not to cover her events surrounding the United Nations conference here unless they're allowed more access.

The unfolding boycott is the latest development in a rocky relationship between Palin’s handlers and the press, in which the campaign has sought to tightly control her interactions with the media.

The campaign had originally indicated that the print reporters following her campaign would be among the small group of journalists allowed to attend the so-called “pool sprays” before Palin’s meetings with dignitaries on the sidelines of the U.N. meetings.

The sprays are basically glorified photo opportunities during which journalists can snap photos and film footage and – if they’re lucky – shout a question or two at Palin and her company before she adjourns for private meetings. On Tuesday, those meetings were to include Afghan President Karzai and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

But the imbroglio began developing Tuesday morning when Palin’s handlers informed the small print press contingent covering her campaign that the print reporter designated to cover the events, Elizabeth Holmes of the Wall Street Journal, would not be allowed to cover the sprays.

The campaign’s reasoning was that there were not going to be questions or statements at the sprays, so they were only appropriate for photographers and cameramen.

The campaign also at first moved to bar CNN, the television network designated for pool duty, from sending its editorial producer – basically a hybrid print/video journalist – though the campaign budged when the network threatened to withhold its cameras as well.

With Palin’s first meeting set to begin at noon, that leaves the print reporters on the outs.

UPDATE: After shutting the print pooler, Holmes, out of the spray before Palin’s meeting with Afghan President Karzai—“rudely,” according to Holmes—the campaign relented and agreed to let her cover the sprays before Palin’s next two meetings, with Colombian President Uribe and Kissinger. Updated story forthcoming.
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The Press:

[Torie]

Is Palin going to be behind a cordon sanitaire from the give and take for the entire campaign? Is she not doing very well, in the pop quizzes the McCain campaign is giving her regarding the content of the briefing books she is supposed to be reading? Is the world beyond energy policy simply too confusing and complex for her? 

So many questions, so little time. Yep, you guessed it -  I'm not a Palin fan. I find her annoying.

[J. J.]

Is Palin going to be behind a cordon sanitaire from the give and take for the entire campaign? Is she not doing very well, in the pop quizzes the McCain campaign is giving her regarding the content of the briefing books she is supposed to be reading? Is the world beyond energy policy simply too confusing and complex for her? 

So many questions, so little time. Yep, you guessed it -  I'm not a Palin fan. I find her annoying.

It plays in brilliantly into the Republican strategy.

[daboese]

It plays in brilliantly into the Republican strategy.

Which is?