Further, added press aide Katie Lillie, there will be no tolerating reporters using cellphones to call or text friends with the president’s latest movements on the island. Since the Vineyard has relatively few roads - and it’s easy to figure out how Obama would travel from one venue to another - those in the press pool must agree not to telegraph where he’s going.You and I both know the press would have been howling with outrage had Bush tried to censor their activities that way. They would have flaunted their opposition to his rules and dared him to punish them.
Violators, she said, would be thrown out of the pool.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Everybody Out of the Pool!
The press pool, that is, that's tasked with following The One as he visits Martha's Vineyard. There are strict rules for press behavior:
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Most of the news reporters today don't have enough sense to know what to do other than follow with the empty suit tell them to do. Almost half of the world news tonight was spent talking about Michael Jackson, how he died, etc., but not one word was said about our military guys over in Iraq and Afganistan who are giving their lives for freedoms sake. These news personnel wouldn't know news if it hit them in the face.
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