Veteran Reporters Miffed At Being Excluded From Surprise Bush Trip

Editor & Publisher:

President Bush's surprise trip to Iraq on Monday, which included just five White House reporters, marks the fourth time in the past month or so that Bush has made surprise news in one location while the White House press corps was en route to another.

And that has at least a few veteran reporters perturbed.

"It was another example of the press traveling to one location and the news being made somewhere else," said Steve Scully, past president of the White House Correspondents Association and a senior producer at C-SPAN. "This administration loves to pull surprises and that is from the get-go."

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Comments

[truthyguy]

09:32 AM on 09/06/2007

I don't blame the press. It looks really bad for the media when they have to transcribe Bush's talking points from WH news releases instead of being able to see and hear Bush read the talking points and, of course, make his customary stream of consciousness statements that are incoherent.

[MikeMidCity]

11:57 PM on 09/05/2007

As if the MSM hasn't been at the tit of Bush's lie machine for the last 6 years.

Hey MSM, do us all a favor and start reporting the news like it was your job or something.

[blu2purple]

10:37 PM on 09/05/2007

You can sell it when you can tell us tell us BEFORE you go that it is working...not when you still have to sneak in the back door....and......when yo don't have to take the weapons away from your own troops before enter the same area with them.

Not a bad smell here AT all.

[partyofone]

08:29 PM on 09/04/2007

What a laugh. The White House Press Corps has spent 7 years brown-nosing, no one believes them anymore, and Bush has to "use" other journalists to get his message out. Big surprise.

[oldschooldemocrat]

08:16 PM on 09/04/2007

Well, boohoo for the so-called mainstream media. Those lazy hacks have bought into every spoon-fed lie we've been told for the past 6 years. Magen, you nailed it.

[wijg]

08:07 PM on 09/04/2007

I can understand why these veteran reporters would be "miffed." After all the ass kissing I'm sure they believe that bush owes them. What's a little ass kissing between traitors?

[ceasenake]

07:39 PM on 09/04/2007

The reporters:

"Well, how would you like it if your meal ticket just disappeared for several hours, maybe even a whole day!"

Would you have gone to Iraq with him?

"Hell, no!"

Could you have kept it a secret?

"Umm, does that include an anonymous leaks?"

[Gary47]

07:37 PM on 09/04/2007

Sheesh! What, did they think there was actual news going on there? No, they just wanted to be good little right-wing lap dogs and were hurt they didn't get their daily ration of recycled idiocy.

[ceasenake]

07:33 PM on 09/04/2007

I'm trying to feel sorry for the whining white house reporters but it's just no use.

I can't.

[marbiol]

07:13 PM on 09/04/2007

Can you imagine how the press felt when Roosevelt held the Aracadia conference? or went to Casablanca??

The internet MUST HAVE BEEN BURNING WITH REPUG INVECTIVE--ESPECIALLY FROM THOSE #$$%DAMN ILLITERATE TAFT SUPPORTERS!!!!!

[TJTelecaster]

07:05 PM on 09/04/2007

Corporate fascism requires secrecy and needs propagandists not reporters..!

[kfdan]

07:02 PM on 09/04/2007

Since the white house press and their networks have dismissed serious journalism it was just a matter of time before Bush's White House dismissed the need to include them in anything important.
Here's a bit of advice to any real journalists out there ~ be critical when you work! Maybe, you'll have a following that the likes of Bush can't dismiss!

[PerryClease]

06:46 PM on 09/04/2007

I am no fan of Bush, but this was certainly necessary from a security point of view.

[Ginzaman]

06:21 PM on 09/04/2007

What the hell's Scully complaining about? C-SPAN is now just as neocon as the Big 5 media corporations that control what we see, hear and read. It's not like you'd actually do your job if you went directly with him. He's an insane moron anwyay. And besides, Brian Lamb (top dog at C-SPAN) was recently quoted as saying, do my job? Screw that. It's not my job to press guests and interject my opinions (be an acutal journalist). If you don't like it, turn it off. Just shut up already.

[realitytrumpsbull]

05:42 PM on 09/04/2007

I think it's a left-handed compliment, because if they're asking questions that this administration doesn't like, as far as I'm concerned they're doing their jobs, and That's A Good Thing...