The Center to Protect Journalists (CPJ) does not think so! The group sent a 29-page report to the White House detailing the Obama Administration’s disregard for a free press and in some cases the government’s aggressive and unethical tactics to crush dissenting opinions in the press.
The CPJ, a non-profit founded over 30 years ago to promote “press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal,” published a special report on Thursday penned by longtime Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. in which he dismantles United States President Barack Obama’s treatment of journalists with assistance from the country’s foremost national security reporters.Despite campaigning heavily on the promise of increased government transparency and the most open administration yet, Pres. Obama’s four-and-a-half-years in the White House so far have included a number of instances cited by Downie in which reporters were investigated, whistleblowers reprimanded and administrative actions allowed for the chilling of journalism, both domestically and on a global level.
Pres. Obama “came into office pledging open government, but he has fallen short of his promise,” Downie prefaces his report.
“Journalists and transparency advocates say the White House curbs routine disclosure of information and deploys its own media to evade scrutiny by the press,” he continues, adding, “Aggressive prosecution of leakers of classified information and broad electronic surveillance programs deter government sources from speaking to journalists.”
Source: RT
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What is wrong with the press , they have lost there back bone and pride. What a shame , we had a free press at one time but no longer
Impeach
JOKE
Truth and Action huh? I just checked the last 30 – 40 posts and they mostly talk about Obama being bad, but have yet to hear any ‘Truth’ about any other ‘bad’ politician, is he the only problem America has? Will the country magically fix itself if he was not in office? I am not trying to argue or sound like an Obama lover very far from that, but I am questioning on whether remaining on and/or suggesting to friends the ‘Truth and Action’ page, it seems like the disdain towards Obama is clouding the variety of topics that can expose the Truth and create some Action. The disdain for Obama is not completely unwarranted, he has not made true on his promises, but I think that was the problem, everyone thinks the President really has power, he is a puppet, a figure head, a speaker for the country, Congress has the real power and in the condition our country is in the focus should be on them, not Obama, not Clinton, not even Bush 1 or 2, its always been Congress that needed the majority of scrutiny and transparency from the public and the press.
100 personal servants and 50 Czars? He has power to destroy the Nation and the Economy and our Dollar. Quantitative Easing?
Hardly……………………………………………………
Barack Hussein Obama is the most deceitful, dishonest, corrupt, power hungry little man to ever occupy our White House. This outlaw has made it his life’s work to conceal his identity, to hide all of his life’s records and documents, and he is intentionally pushing his agenda every day to destroy our Constitutional Republic, to strip every citizen of our freedoms, and to turn our country into a Communist State. If you doubt this statement, just take some time and check what Obama has done, who his advisers and puppet masters are, and who he has pledged his loyalty to.
No
He doesn’t care about the Constitution. It’s just one more thing he has to find a way around. Like hiding his birth records and college transcripts, proving he was not a “natural born citizen”, and received financial aid as a foreign citizen. 😉
Is this a joke?