Increasingly, Bush Escapes the Media Pack (a must read)

[cynatnite]

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The idea that Bush could travel across the country without a full contingent of reporters, especially in the middle of a war, highlights a major cultural shift in the presidency and the news media. In the four decades since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, presidents traditionally have taken journalists with them wherever they traveled on the theory that when it comes to the most powerful leader on the planet, anything can happen at any time.

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Yet fewer eyeballs on a president means less scrutiny, in the view of some media and government watchdog groups. Fewer reporters, they say, means fewer questions and fewer versions of what happens available to the public. News accounts written from a different time zone invariably miss context and texture. And in closing the doors of some fundraisers, the White House has reversed a policy adopted under Clinton after fundraising scandals raised questions about what donors are seeking when they hobnob with presidents.

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Bush is not the only one to find ways of escaping much public notice as he flies around the country. Vice President Cheney manages to leave Washington for days, and sometimes weeks, at a time without public announcement. Few in the capital even knew he was in Texas in February, for instance, until he accidentally shot a companion while hunting quail. And he has been in Jackson, Wyo., since July 29 without any national news media mentioning it.

The Jackson Hole News & Guide found out Cheney was there only because it spotted his plane and the radar dish that serves an anti-missile battery that protects his house when he's in town. "In the past, they've been kind of weird about it," said Thomas Dewell, the paper's co-editor. "They'd say, 'His airplane's here and the missile base is here, but we can't tell you if he's here.' " This time, he said, Cheney's office confirmed his presence when asked.

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Bush has traveled out of the Washington area at least seven times this year without a press plane, including four times in the past month to closed Republican fundraisers -- in Milwaukee, in Cleveland, in Charleston, W.Va., and on Thursday here to Green Bay to raise $500,000 for House candidate John Gard. He also headlined a fundraiser in Texas yesterday that was closed to the media. That may serve the interests of candidates who want the money Bush can raise but don't want a public embrace with a president suffering low approval ratings.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/11/AR2006081101834.html?referrer=email

A very enlightening article!

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Correct me if wrong

But does it not look like the Washingtonpost getting very anti bush nowadays.

I thought they pro bush from all the crap in the past :shrug:

[wakeme2008]

2. IMHO the WP can read the polls and know what their readers

believe in.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. You mean

they have an awakening. :rofl:

See you naughty people you go choose Lamont and now all this

:spank: :rofl:

[ClintonTyree]

4. Right, they go with the tide...........

whatever it takes to sell a few more newspapers. During the height of Bush's popularity they were White House stenographers, printing everything the Bush propaganda team released. Now that they see the tide is turning, it's time to jump on the other bandwagon. News whores, plain and simple.

[Joanne98]

5. Cheney has an anti-missle battery that protects his house?

How much did that cost!

[izzie]

6. I saw that. Our Royals are really at it

Mills and his 'power elite' have come home in all its glory. Bush is even half way into the Uniform thing. We have the royal planes etc so what is next? Wed of the twins to a Saudi Prince? 200 years down the drain?

[reichstag911]

7. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww...

...Jenna and/or Barb marrying a...brown, swarthy type?!? :wtf: Like, no way, dude!!!

[ThomWV]

9. You Forget The Weekends In Mexico

And just one or two too many Buds ....

[reichstag911]

11. Not to mention Jeb...

...and his wife! Mea culpa.

[izzie]

10. Well Victoria let her granddaughter marry that crazy Russian.

Who sh did not trust.

[glitch]

15. Both marrying the same one at the same time ? Maybe that would wake up the

bushbots. :rofl: Ok, probably not.

[FUGW]

8. It didn't cost him a cent, I bet that prick will keep it if he ever leaves

office.

[elehhhhna]

13. COst him? Hell, I'll bet he MADE MONEY on that intallation.

[DemReadingDU]

12. K&R

[Rose Siding]

14. And Lani Davis envies them

Figures.

"I marvel at their ability to get away with it," he said. "I have to grudgingly admit to some envy. I admire their chutzpah."

I don't WANT Democrats to try to get away with hiding from the people.

[earth mom]

16. Wow, this blows my mind, but I'm also not surprised.

Secrecy is NOT supposed to be part of our government and yet that's what we are seeing being done blatantly while the corporate media whores are either too cheap to fight it or more likely figure that everything chimpy does will benefit them somehow, so why bother?! :mad:

It also appears that chimpy is doing a lot of flying on our dime! Looks like doesn't stay in one spot for more than a few days-except at the ranch when Cindy isn't there! How many millions of dollars of OUR money is down the drain so chimpy can schmooze and drink with his buddies?! :grr:

Chutzpah?! More like the NERVE of THOSE BASTARDS! They are giving all of us the royal finger! :argh: