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MSM pouts, threatens to ban Palin footage despite newsworthiness

Look at the MSM, threatening to hold its breath and turn blue if it doesn’t get its way!  From ABC News blog:

It was like a miniature mutiny. Reporters frustrated by weeks of limited access to Republican presidential nominee John McCain shouted questions at him during a photo opportunity event near Cleveland this morning.
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Reporters were being kept away from Palin’s meetings with world leaders. (Palin is scheduled to meet Afghan President Karzai and Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, among others.) Though the McCain campaign will allow a producer and camera crew to cover the event for the news networks, originally they only permitted a camera — with no editorial presence — inside the meetings. In protest of the McCain camp’s original edict to refuse to allow editorial presence in the room, the networks had voted to ban use of photographs/video of Palin’s meetings. …

The McCain camp gives in and allows a CNN reporter (not Fox News…process that, moonbats!) to tag along.  It was not even worth the MSM’s temper tantrum.  From the Washington Times:

According to the CNN producer who was let into Karzai’s hotel suite with the photographers just before noon, Karzai was talking about his son. Palin was nodding, and asked what his name is. Karzai replied his name was Mirwais and explained that it means light of the house.

The media were escorted out after about 40 seconds.

Campaign aides subsequently announced that reporters would be allowed to accompany photographers into the later sessions with Uribe and Kissinger. 

The MSM wasn’t going to do their friggin’ jobs and report the news unless they got their way: 40 seconds of access.  You try doing that at your job and see if you don’t get fired faster than Ted Kennedy wolfs down a gin-and-tonic.

Slu notices quite a difference in this lack of access and that of a certain Messiah running on the other side:

When Barack Obama had his magical mystery tour of Europe, he met with foreign leaders. Here’s an interesting nugget about those meetings from the NYTimes:

On his second visit to Israel, he sought to reassure voters of his capacity to serve on the international stage. The audience for the trip, despite a private series of dawn-to-dusk meetings, clearly was the American electorate as much as the foreign leaders.

Interesting contrast. They simply reported the meetings were private. No demand for access, no snarky blog posts about how long they were allowed into the meeting. No votes to ban coverage. When Obama met with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the meeting was private as well. The British press even wrote a story about the privacy of the meeting with Gordon Brown.

I must have missed the part where the media pouted and stamped their feet about being cut out of that meeting.

From Newsbusters:

…A review of media coverage from Obama’s behind-closed-doors chats with European heads of state, however, shows no such complaint by the media about a lack of access.
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Yet when Sen. Barack Obama went to Europe this summer and met with past and present foreign leaders, print media were similarly on the outside looking in. Obama met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former and current British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown (respectively), and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

September 23, 2008 Posted by crushliberalism | hypocrisy, McCain, media bias, Palin | 7 Comments