Roger Ailes grabs moral high ground over Obama on phone, email seizures baltimoresun.com/entertainment/…
— Fredric U. Dicker (@fud31) May 24, 2013
This is not a partisan issue. Obama will be gone in 3.5 years. God willing, we reporters will be living with these rules for decades.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) May 25, 2013
This is dumbest & most frightening take I've read on Rosen matter & I fear it's hardening into the liberal position: m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201…
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) May 25, 2013
So going to a judge & falsely accusing someone of a crime in order to search their email is now "pro forma."
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) May 25, 2013
But if that's all really true, it's WORSE than we thought. It means the gov lied to get Rosen's emails and FBI agent Reyes perjured himself.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) May 25, 2013
This is not a partisan issue. Obama will be gone in 3.5 years. God willing, we reporters will be living with these rules for decades.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) May 25, 2013
There's a reason it's called the First Amendment: Americans want a free and energetic press corps, not a Mainstream Media chorus full of kiss-up sycophants to the President and the powerful, but many in MSM don't care -until Holder & DOJ over-stepped, and even then, some "journalists" can't put Constitution first over their love for Obama: The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza calls out media Obama kiss-ups in public re James Rosen case, while Balt. Sun media critic David Zuirawik deconstructs Obama & Co.'s obsession with Fox News -and attempts to marginalize it- by simply letting facts and Roger Ailes' own words appear in print: "Roger Ailes grabs moral high ground over Obama on phone, email seizures. Memo to Fox staffers shows character, righteousness, leadership"
Baltimore Sun
Roger Ailes grabs moral high ground over Obama on phone, email seizures
Memo to Fox staffers shows character, righteousness, leadership
By David Zuirawik, The Baltimore Sun
6:12 p.m. EDT, May 23, 2013
The Obama White House has been trying to de-legitimize Fox News almost from the day it took office. Remember the media blitz of 2009 launched by then White House Communications Director Anita Dunn?
I stood with Fox on that one on principle and came away impressed with the almost tribal unity that Roger Ailes inspired in his troops in the face of White House pressure.Read the rest of Zuirawik's column at:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-roger-ailes-rosen-obama-moral-20130523,0,6047321.story
Such a great closing, and not just because I agree with it 100%::
But I am going to rejoin the battle, because what the White House is doing is truly in a league with Nixon. The difference is that we now have a dumbed-down, wimped-out and suck-up press compared to the one Nixon faced. And what passes for media criticism is, in the main, even more spineless and pathetic.
Too many of the press folks, especially in Washington, are all too happy to kiss up to the White House rather than doing their jobs as Rosen has. Or, maybe they just don't have his dedication and courage.-----
Ryan Lizza @RyanLizza https://twitter.com/RyanLizza
Read his three most recents columns on this subject here:
The New Yorker
May 20, 2013
BLOG: NEWS DESK
THE D.O.J. VERSUS JAMES ROSEN
Here is the full forty-four-page Justice Department application for the search warrant of the Gmail account of Fox News's James Rosen.
By Ryan Lizza
May 21, 2013
BLOG: NEWS DESK
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND FOX NEWS’S PHONE RECORDS
The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters.
By Ryan Lizza
May 24, 2013
BLOG: NEWS DESK
HOW PROSECUTORS FOUGHT TO KEEP ROSEN’S WARRANT SECRET
The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen’s private e-mail account secret.
By Ryan Lizza
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/how-justice-fought-to-keep-rosens-warrant-secret.html