Fox News First -- White House correspondence, indeed | http://t.co/r6R9ww5AiR #FNPolitics
— Chris Stirewalt (@cstirewalt) May 1, 2014
Why Is @CBS News So Quiet on #Benghazi? http://t.co/vjvR2YYFj6
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) May 1, 2014
#Benghazi Emails: Proof #Obama White House Put Politics Ahead Of Truth http://t.co/455P8cVrmT Is this the “smoking gun”?
— Jay Sekulow (@JaySekulow) April 30, 2014
Did the WH retroactively try to make the Ben Rhodes #Benghazi email "classified" to keep from releasing it? http://t.co/nFj9rHzH2F
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) April 30, 2014
"in what’s happening to society and the press,” said Risen. I agree.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) April 30, 2014
"...to stay on that highway. As long as we accept this interstate highway of reporting, we are enabling and complicit..."
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) April 30, 2014
“[The Obama administration] want[s] to create an interstate highway for reporting in which there are police all along telling you..."
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) April 30, 2014
"We need to think about how to challenge the government in the way we’re supposed to challenge the government.” --Risen of NYT
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) April 30, 2014
NYT James Risen: "We have to stand up and begin to fight back…" against press restrictions.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) April 30, 2014
NYT James Risen says Obama admin is trying to "narrow the playing field for reporters."
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) April 30, 2014
"Under Attack: Reporters and Their Sources," investigative journalists address Obama admin. press restrictions http://t.co/B5zFoS3ZLh
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) April 30, 2014
New Benghazi Documents and the White House Connection: http://t.co/q9pemmpDXb
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) April 30, 2014
Attacks on the press are part of a fundamental change in society by a national security state. - James Risen #logan2014
— Keith Summa (@summanyc) April 26, 2014
Media Narrative & Optics as the most important thing in public policy, to the detriment of real facts. Equally true in South Florida now with proposed David Beckham/MLS Port of Miami soccer stadium as well as for Benghazi response in 2012 by stonewalling Obama White House, as Sharyl Attkisson can attest to
The attempt to successfully frame a media narrative with favorable optics, mentioned at the top in Chris Stirewalt's tweet and which is today's FOX News First newsletter
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/01/white-house-correspondence-indeed/
is press management of the sort that we see everywhere and everyday, from here in South Florida to Stockholm, sometimes, in quite humorous or ham-handed ways if observant people are paying close attention.
And yet all too often, the news media fall for it hook-line-and-sinker and don't bring the sort of critical thinking to bear on the issue that they ought to, caught up as they are by the sight of the cute bear riding the bicycle in a circle in front of them, to ask questions that need to be asked.
In Miami, recently, questions like that included why should real soccer fans like me care about the prospective views from a proposed stadium at the Port of Miami more than they care about the actual comfort level and aesthetics they feel once inside of the stadium, and how easy it is to get to for the largest number of prospective fans to get to and from the stadium, with any hope, near public transit facilities that make that trip easy, which is good for everyone involved.
Local10 video: Public hearing held on MLS stadium in PortMiami
April 23, 2014 07:42:06 PM EDT
Updated April 23, 2014 07:49:36 PM EDT
The mayor of Miami Beach called a public hearing Wednesday because he feels that a stadium in PortMiami will affect the already congested commute for residents.
But early on, though not true in the Local10 news video above, the cute bear on the bicycle on that issue, David Beckham, was all that the early news stories in South Florida largely focused on, which is precisely what his ownership group wanted, even as a few highly-observant and popular South Florida bloggers and tweeters of distinction and serious news personalities like Bill Cooke at Random Pixels blog, film/TV director Billy Corben and Local10's Senior Political Reporter Michael Putney were asking and writing about with a real purpose.
@DougLife7 @SamHam15 Haha fair enough. But it might also have to do with the fact that it could be a terrible location for a stadium...?
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) April 30, 2014
11 mayors in @MiamiDadeCounty oppose Beckham building Major League Soccer stadium at @PortMiami http://t.co/fo5cMURa8V
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) April 30, 2014
'Why David Beckham’s Current Plan for MLS Miami Is Destined For Eventual Failure' http://t.co/pm6cDbeJb7 via @worldsoccertalk
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) February 7, 2014
See conversations in the tweets!
@MayorGimenez says: "Working to bring MLS to @MiamiDadeCounty." Question: How much is THIS gonna cost? @BillyCorben pic.twitter.com/9e7oR5gj6C
— Random Pixels blog (@Random_Pixels) November 13, 2013
Ed Molina, staff@latinopost.com
March 28, 2014 02:49 PM EDT
http://www.latinopost.com/
This Week in South Florida
Local10 video: "Local 10's Michael Putney talks with local leading members of the Beckham team and a Miami commissioner about why location they've set their sights on for the new major league soccer stadium and if it's a good one."
March 30, 2014 01:31:19 PM EDT
Updated March 30 2014 04:14:19 PM EDT
http://www.local10.com/news/this-week-in-south-florida-march-30/25236456
Updated April 30 2014 06:42:45 PM EDT
But as I've lamented so many times over the years on this blog over the past seven years, spouting common sense and asking pointed questions makes them (me) a distinct minority in this area of the country, unfortunately.
The anger we now see among some in the U.S. press corps is, for some of us at least, a little too late and convenient, to say nothing of being too over-the-top, especially given how easily, via CW group think, they abandoned their natural (accurate) initial suspicions and replaced that by eagerly swallowing the Obama Administration's feeble excuses about a YouTube video that hardly anyone had ever seen or heard of prior to them offering it up as a reason for protests in Cairo.
The Beltway Media is mad at themselves, obviously, but since they can hardly blame themselves, they are now wildly pointing fingers at others.
After the horse is long gone out of the barn.
If you missed Sharyl Attkisson's very revealing interview with Glenn Beck on Wednesday morning regarding the very curious circumstances she's been in for the past 18 months, from her being "watched" and having her work computer hacked -by ???- plus the problems she had at CBS News with getting reports on Benghazi on-air, and her recent departure from there, see the context and video here:
The Blaze
Sharyl Attkisson on the One Thing People Should Be ‘Standing Up on Buildings and Screaming’ About
April 30, 2014 1:50pm
Erica Ritz
That we are only now learning via a Judicial Watch FOIA request that the author of the Obama White House talking points about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the death of four Americans, Ben Rhodes, would turn out to be the brother of the President of CBS News, is, of course, obviously a delicious wild card.
A wild card that none of us who were always suspicious of the White House narrative and Susan Rice's self-serving comments regarding a YouTube video, could've ever guessed at months and months ago.
A wild card that none of us who were always suspicious of the White House narrative and Susan Rice's self-serving comments regarding a YouTube video, could've ever guessed at months and months ago.
By the way, for what it's worth, the Fox News First newsletter I received this morning that mentions some of these issues and which prompted me to do this blog post, has consistently proven over the past eight months to be much-more accurate and fair -even prescient- than I'd have initially guessed when I first subscribed last year.
You might want to sign up, too.
Just saying...
@SharylAttkisson https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson
http://www.sharylattkisson.com/
Bill Cooke
@Random_Pixels https://twitter.com/Random_Pixels
Billy Corben
@BillyCorben https://twitter.com/BillyCorben
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