The White House and Media Control

[FrankRep]

The White House and Media Control (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/election/1346)


Steven Yates | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
06 July 2009


President Barack Obama entered office with a promise of increased transparency, especially regarding the media. However, veteran reporter Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50445) last Wednesday that Obama is attempting to control the press and that he's going beyond what even Richard Nixon tried to do.

"Nixon didn't try to do that," Thomas said. "They couldn't control (the media). They didn't try."

CNSNews.com also reported:


Thomas said she was especially concerned about the arrangement between the Obama Administration and a writer from the liberal Huffington Post Web site. The writer was invited by the White House to President Obama’s press conference last week on the understanding that he would ask Obama a question about Iran from among questions that had been sent to him by people in Iran.

“When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you,” Thomas said.

Thomas' comments followed last Wednesday's briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. At the briefing, Gibbs and CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid (with Thomas jumping in) engaged in a back-and-forth exchange on how (in Reid's words) "the audience and the questions are being selected" for the president's town-hall meeting on healthcare that day.

Reid charged: "It just feels very tightly controlled. It feels — I mean, the concept of a town hall I think is to have a open public forum, and this sounds like a very tightly controlled audience and a list of questions. Why do it that way? Why not open it up to the public?"

"Why pre-select?" Reid asked. "Why not just open it up for people and allow any question to come in?"

A later segment of the exchange follows:

Helen Thomas: "I'm amazed. I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and —"

Robert Gibbs: "Helen, you haven't even heard the questions."

Chip Reid: "It doesn't matter. It's the process."

Thomas: "You have left open —"

Reid: "Even if there's a tough question, it's a question coming from somebody who was invited or was screened, or the question was screened."

Thomas: "It's shocking. It's really shocking."

Gibbs: "Chip, let's have this discussion at the conclusion of the town hall meeting. How about that?"

Reid: "Okay."

Gibbs: "I think —"

Thomas: "No, no, no, we're having it now —"

Gibbs: "Well, I'd be happy to have it now."

Thomas: "It's a pattern."

Gibbs: "Which question did you object to at the town hall meeting, Helen?"

Thomas: "It's a pattern. It isn't the question —"

Gibbs: "What's a pattern?"

Thomas: "It's a pattern of controlling the press."

Here's a video of a large portion of the exchange:

YouTube - Chip Reid and Helen Thomas take Robert Gibbs to task (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q37kt0ga0OA)


SOURCE:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/election/1346

[ItsTime]

My question is, what happened the next day once everyone found out it was staged? What did those two reporters have to say?

[InterestedParticipant]

President Barack Obama entered office with a promise of increased transparency, especially regarding the media. However, veteran reporter Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50445) last Wednesday that Obama is attempting to control the press and that he's going beyond what even Richard Nixon tried to do.

"Nixon didn't try to do that," Thomas said. "They couldn't control (the media). They didn't try."
Here is an excellent example of how a controlled organization, through its magazine publication, attempts to contain thinking and alter perception. This article is attempting to isolate the problem of media control to a President and a few reporters or media outlets, even making the claim that recent President's did not have such power. The purpose of this article's claims is to make the reader think that the media still operates independently except when under pressure or enticement from governmental actors. This is a preposterous hypothesis and one that helps to keep the American people in a state of false reality. I would think most here have seen for themselves how the entire media, especially MSM, is controlled all the time, irrespective so enticements provided by a puppet President.

[FrankRep]

Here is an excellent example of how a controlled organization, through its magazine publication, attempts to contain thinking and alter perception. This article is attempting to isolate the problem of media control to a President and a few reporters or media outlets, even making the claim that recent President's did not have such power. The purpose of this article's claims is to make the reader think that the media still operates independently except when under pressure or enticement from governmental actors. This is a preposterous hypothesis and one that helps to keep the American people in a state of false reality. I would think most here have seen for themselves how the entire media, especially MSM, is controlled all the time, irrespective so enticements provided by a puppet President.

InterestedParticipant, you're lying.

The John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/) is a firm stance that the Council on Foreign Relations (http://www.cfr.org/) has a solid grip over the media and doesn't call it "independent."


Proof:

The Council on Foreign Relations and their influence over the Media


YouTube - The CFR Controls The Media! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-FuaXvxWmQ)


Complete Video:

Behind The Big News: Propaganda and the CFR
http://tiny.cc/j8J8m

[InterestedParticipant]

InterestedParticipant, you're lying.

The John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/) is a firm stance that the Council on Foreign Relations (http://www.cfr.org/) has a solid grip over the media and doesn't call it "independent."


Proof:

The Council on Foreign Relations and their influence over the Media


YouTube - The CFR Controls The Media! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-FuaXvxWmQ)


Complete Video:

Behind The Big News: Propaganda and the CFR
http://tiny.cc/j8J8m
Mods, this outright of people lying is absolutely unacceptable and should be addressed. I'm flagging this insulting post.

Look, the entire CFR as the ultimate controllers is a containment vector. CFR is just one of many domestic organizations, who are subservient to international organizations, who are subservient to black nobility.

The Freemason, CFR, Federal Reserve led JBS group is a front organization, setup to counter the bogus communist threat in a fake dialectical framework.

I obviously will not convince you of anything as you are firmly in the grip of this dialectical frame and it will require a traumatic event in your life to break the programming that you are under.

But I am no longer speaking to you, I am now speaking to others who do not share your controlled programming and who are willing to take this message and leverage it to conduct further research on their own.

But to the point of your post, the entire extended media is controlled. It is a social system, and this entire notion that a US President is attempted to control isolated news outlets and journalists is an embarrassment to any thinking people still left on the planet. Even the article in the New American contradicts what you say (by the way, why do they call it the "New" American, eh? What's wrong with the old American?)

[FrankRep]

CFR is just one of many domestic organizations, who are subservient to international organizations, who are subservient to black nobility.

The CFR is just one of many groups. This is common knowledge.

When you say black nobility, you really mean the Vatican and Jesuits aka: the Catholics.


InterestedParticipant, just be honest.

[dantheman]

I'm glad information like this is coming out on the Obama administration. This is what Bush did with the press. Great King Bush decreed that the press was not to run photos of coffins of dead soldiers coming back from the wars in the Middle East. So what did Bush do then? He flew the coffins back in at night. Just more control over the first amendment. Hooray "Freedom of the Press"!

[Dr.3D]

Oh the press is pretty much free to say anything they want. It doesn't matter if what they say is true or not. JBS has been telling everybody about the CFR controlled press for years now.

I find it difficult to say the least, to see how anybody could blame the JBS for covering up anything having to do with the controlled press.

It's easy to have "freedom of the press" as long as the press itself is owned by those who would suppress the truth.

[InterestedParticipant]

The CFR is just one of many groups. This is common knowledge.

When you say black nobility, you really mean the Vatican and Jesuits aka: the Catholics.


InterestedParticipant, just be honest.
To focus on CFR is misleading, end of story.

When I say black nobility, I mean black nobility. Don't put any words into my mouth.


I'm the only damn person in the house who is being honest, that's why I get attacked by all sides. That's how you know when you're telling the truth, you piss-off the entire charade, which is on all sides of every issue.

I'm always so amused by every vector-follower, because they think that it is their vector-leaders who are the only ones who are NOT controlled. It only shows how strong the programming is for each and every sector of the belief-spectrum.

[FrankRep]

To focus on CFR is misleading, end of story.

The JBS focuses on and investigates many groups, in fact, the JBS coined the term the "Bilderberg Group."

In the beginning the JBS did primarily focus on the Communists until their research uncovered the rabbit hole went much deeper than Capitalist/Communist issue. They started to learn about the Round table groups and etc...