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September 15, 2004

Kick CBS out of the White House Pressroom

While CBS has the freedom of the press to air nearly any damn thing it wants, there is no requirement that anyone else accept them as an objective news agency. I may be wrong, but I doubt al Jazeera or the Weekly World News has a seat in the White House pressroom, Air Force One, or rotates onto the occasional press pool. So, a humble suggestion:

Kick them out until they apologize!

No questions at the press conference, no phone calls returned, no contact of any kind with the Administration. Freeze them out. Treat them as the pariahs they are. Their freedom to publish does not extend to anyone's duty to co-operate.

It's really sad to watch one man's bitter hatred and ego (and other people's fear) destroy the House of Murrow. Just proving one more time how much easier it is to destroy than build. And it's so unneccessary -- they could have retracted the documents as "possible frauds" and stood by the rest of the story. But no, they think they're some kind of Press Popes who cannot admit fallibility. The Office of the Anchor would be damaged, you see.

Suddenly, my facetious post below is seeming more likely.

Posted by Kevin Murphy at September 15, 2004 06:52 PM | TrackBack