>>>>Now if only the reporters (females included) could only find their spherical jewelry, and just start asking questions, and if interrupted, all walk out on the "conference". If they aren't allowed to press, they aren't the press.
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>>>With a few exceptions, our 'free press' quit being free about 7 years ago. If you don't ask the 'right' questions, you won't be allowed to play.
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>>Sorry to bring up yet another parallel, but Miloshevich used the same trick. He and his gov't were the main source of the news. If you don't publish what he likes, you don't get invited to the press conferences, and you are cut off the main supply of the wares you sell: the news. Of course, it was a sad state of affairs, when the government is the news - specially the bad ones.
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>The saddest part is that the both the press and the American public just rolled over and let it happen instead of saying 'Wait a minute! This is not how it's supposed to work!' loudly and often enough to, if not stop the madness, slow it down until John Q. Public woke up and went "Whoa! Dude! The Wrongness just reeks!"

Check out this article by Christopher Hume, from the Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/article/246002