I find this highly offensive. Perhaps I am confused, but I did not know that AEJMC was political organization.
Anita Fleming-Rife BE WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE THOSE WHO MIND DON'T MATTER AND THOSE WHO MATTER DON'T MIND.
--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Mich Sineath <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Mich Sineath <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: AEJMC: Obama's Promised "Change" Lacks Transparency
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 5:31 PM
June 7, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
Carol Pardun, AEJMC President (803) 777-3244, [log in to unmask]" shape="rect">[log in to unmask]
Paul Lester, AEJMC President's Advisory Council (657) 278-4604, [log in to unmask]" shape="rect">[log in to unmask]
In late May,
President Barack Obama took the podium in front of the White House press corps
in his first full, open-ended news conference in 10 months, a gap that exceeds
the record set by his predecessor.
Obama's lack of presidential press conferences and his general lack of
transparency and accessibility to journalists during his administration are in
sharp contrast to the platform on which he ran for president in 2008. During
that campaign, Obama pledged a new era of openness.
Even the most logical of venues for answering questions from the press seem to
be off-limits. In mid-May after he signed the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press
Act-a new law requiring the State Department to identify governments that
restrict press freedoms-he refused to answer questions from reporters. "I'm not
doing a press conference today," he announced, according to a Reuters news
story. And when he does allow reporters' questions, attempts are made to
control the proceeding. Last year the Wall Street Journal criticized the
administration's pre-screening of reporters who would be allowed to ask
questions of the president.
The AEJMC is alarmed by restrictions to presidential coverage that at best
curtail and at worst prevent U.S. citizens from understanding the critical
issues in which this administration is involved. We urge President Obama and
members of his administration to fulfill the commitment "to creating an
unprecedented level of openness in Government" described in his memo
posted on http://www.whitehouse.gov/ the_press_office/ transparencyandopengovernment/ .
Supporting a free, open and informed press with regular access to the president
is the best way to support transparent governance in the best interest of a
free and informed citizenry.
This statement was issued by the President of AEJMC and through the President's Advisory Council. LINK: http://aejmc.org/topics/2010/06/aejmc-obamas-promised-change-lacks-transparency/
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