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highwaystar101 said:
halogamer1989 said:
NinjaguyDan said:
Wasn't FOX "News" frozen out of the last press conference?

Yes. Obama had a premade script of who would be allowed to ask ?s. (Almost all of the journalists allowed were from liberals) Major Garrett could only take notes and was not allowed to ask a ?. So much for freedom of the press.

 

Our televised press are not allowed to show extreme political views towards one party. This is the problem in the USA, you have the most extremist people on the news and FOX is the worst of them. I can see why Obama would not want them there because they would try to humiliate him. But that is why British televised politics is like that ,so we don't get that scenario where the primeminister would have to freeze out certain news companies, which in the end offers a greater range of press freedom.

If you know what I mean, that last statement by me was a little higgledepigglede lol. Anyway, I'm agreeing with you that it is bad. but saying how Britain overcame that problem.

Major Garrett is a professional non extremist that works for Fox News.  I don't see the problem with FNC as it does its job--reporting the news.  I watch CNN sometimes too but I have all my favs on FNC and Fox (Hell's Kitchen, 24, etc.)  MSNBC is just a turn off for me though.  Anyway, there should always be freedom of the press no matter which side you side on, lib or cons.  Press conferences should be utilized to get info to all channels of the media.