President Barack Obama promised his administration would be one of the most transparent in history. The opposite has been true.
In fact, a new report has found that the American press under Obama has fewer freedoms than they would under some Third World dictatorships.
The United States officially ranks 41st in the world for free press in the 2016 World Press Freedom Index.
It’s one of the lowest scores the United States has ever received on the index, released Wednesday by the group.
That puts the U.S. below Jamaica (10), Namibia (17), Ghana (26), and South Africa (39), and just above Botswana (43).
For years the press has complained about the secrecy of the Obama administration.
“[Obama’s] Justice Department has cracked down on reporters in an effort to prevent leaks; it also set a new record for withholding access to government files under the Freedom of Information Act (despite calling for a “new era of openness” on his first day in office); and photojournalists in 2013 from several major news organizations chastised the Obama administration for denying their ‘right to photograph or videotape the President while he is performing his official duties,’ instead relying on official photos shot by White House photographers,” NPR’s Sam Sanders said.
It’s even caused Congress to take action. This year, a House of Representatives report concluded that the freedom of information process under the Obama administration is broken and in need of serious change, after the backlog of Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests more than doubled since Obama took office in 2009.
In 2013, The Associated Press said, “As surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist’s camera lens, officials in [Obama’s] administration are blocking the public from having an independent view of important functions of the Executive Branch of government.”
– The Horn News editorial team
Yes and their holding back the movie 13 hours to be released that should make people angry about the administration ,or the 911 reports
If all the medias think that they are being controlled, just get together and tell the gov/press to STUFF IT and do it anyway !!
The Alternative media seems to be able to write what they want……..
For Free Media Coverage
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, & Fox are all CFR members,, part of the establishment.
All the mainstream liberal media channels have been lying to us for years. One man commented: THE MEDIA IS OWNED by SIX CORPORATIONS who also OWN ALL OF THE PROFESSIONAL CAREER POLITICIANS – the mainstream media is a military weapon of brain washing. Check these out:
free press( dot).net/ownership/chart
businessinsider (dot).com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
(I opened the above links to check it out.Yep, he’s right!! Lots of details – mind boggling.)
AND HAVE YOU FOROTTEN, (OR DID YOU EVEN KNOW) THE MEDIA IS IN OBAMA’S POCKET??!!
ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan Rice, National Security Adviser.
ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former Whitehouse Press Secretary Jay Carney
ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama’s Deputy Press Secretary
ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama’s Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood
CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications.
CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
I think someone on the Washington POST may have some ties to the Obama administration. And now we must add The New York Times to this list. Is FOX NEWS going to follow them? We’ll have to monitor their “fair and unbiased” reporting, then decide whether they’re worth watching, but the above media should be considered bought-and-paid for – by Obama.
And now you know why it is no surprise THE MEDIA IS IN OBAMA’S POCKET. Think there might be a little bias in the news? This may also explain the cover up of Benghazi, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.,…….. And the fact that Hillary will walk away from her scandals and treasonous acts scot free!
And now they are working very hard to keep the people from electing Trump into office. Will we, the people, fall for all this liberal BS they’re pushing at us?? Time will tell. Albert Einstein once said: “Intelligence has it’s limits but STUPIDITY HAS NO LIMIT!!” Judging by the majority of the voters, I do think most Americans are FINALLY waking up!!
Odumbo is to date the worst president . WE can not believe a word he says. He has brought down the middle class , lack of jobs for everyone ,but claims employment is at its lowest. The TPP will strip Americans of our constitutional rights , first amendment, censoring the internet and prbably deny us of (FOIA) !!!
It’s ironic that the News Media Is so one-sided in support of the Obama administration at the same time that this administration is an enemy to them. It’s similar to the Hospital Administrators and Insurance Company Executives who supported ObamaCare which is now endangering them and their businesses. And they keep supporting Obama even after overwhelming evidence against him and his policies. These people are supposed to be smart. The average ‘trailer trash’ person has more brains than this. They’ll at least recognize who is attacking them, and either fight back or run for their safety.
agreed. what we have lost is non-bias journalism. the press and t.v. have turned in a propaganda machine for what ever they are backing at the moment
[Exposed] U.S. government waging secret war on press April 21, 2016 Obama has had channels 2, 4,5,7 and fox news bought and paid for the propaganda machine since before he was in office. The democrat party and Obama rules the free over the air channels. The real news is found on the internet. Over the air news media journalism is dead.
THE MEDIA IS IN OBAMA’S POCKET??!!
ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan Rice, National Security Adviser.
ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former Whitehouse Press Secretary Jay Carney
ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama’s Deputy Press Secretary
ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama’s Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood
CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications.
CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
The “news media”, is getting exactly what they deserve. Get is bed with the devil and the devil will take your sole. If these journalists had done there job 8 years ago, the devil would not be running this once great country.
Last week there was a gas attack by an Al Qaeda group on the Kurdish area of Aleppo. Nothing was reported here about it. If there was even a slight chance that they could pin this on Assad it would have been all over the news.
I recall a story on CNN during the siege of Sarajevo. They showed a woman grieving at the grave of her son who was killed by a sniper. They said she was Muslim. I saw the same story on Greek TV, same day, and there was a Serbian Orthodox priest conducting a funeral service at the grave site with the mother present. CNN had cut out the priest from the video because it didn’t fit their agenda of Muslims good, Serbian Christians evil. True story.
You can take just about everything Obama has said flip it around and that is what he means and does.
Remember when he said he was days of transforming the United States? Do you know now what he meant? His plan from day one is to destroy our country. He has no loyalty to the United States of America.
True.
Obama is not for America, The media is right with him, they are in bed with the White House. They picked a Traitor to America to get into bed with. Obama likes being the King,He was never something else in life, now he is and he likes it. The 96lbs weakling is a King. I think he will do something to keep being the King. Especially when the next president {Donald Trump} will wipe out everything the Liar has done, Obama care, His PC policies, His terrorist aiding and abetting. We will have to drag this Trailer trash out by the hair.
Obama is our first Muslim president, Obama admitted this on Channel 5 with George Stephonopolis during Obama’s campaign. Muslims once claimed that an Islamic flag would fly over the White House one day; instead it has been flying inside all this time.It is our own fault for allowing fear and a misguided sense of compassion to become our undoing. We allowed ourselves to become so distracted and divided by liars and people with alternative agendas that we didn’t know what to believe. Thanks to the Obama’s control on the Democrat news channels, the real conspiracy has been advancing little by little. America is slowly becoming more “sharia compliant,” and sadly, little is being done to stop it. America will become what Europe is now facing. The Wahhabi Invasion of America is right on schedule.
Just ask yourself. What reason would any president have to pit poor against rich, black against white, brown against black, religion against religion if not to tear apart the very core of our nation. Like it or not, see it or not, we are headed for a civil war unless we begin to unite rather then allow ourselves to be divided. Obama has divided us purposely for that very reason. If he can get back on track he will have succeeded in bringing down the greatest nation to have ever existed and we, not him are the reason. Perhaps no one wants to admit it but the writing is on the wall and the problems grow daily if not hourly. Most know it but some at least ignore it. Only a few are willing to call a spade a spade!
Here’s advice for the media ! Do not pay any attention to that piece of CRAP! (OBAMA)! IMPEACH…IMPEACH…IMPEACH…
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries
for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth;
to lie outright;
to pervert;
to vilify;
to fawn at the feet of mammon, and
to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.
You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
— John Swinton(1829-1901) Former Head of Editorial Staff for the New York Times
was one of America’s best loved newspapermen.
Called by his peers “The Dean of his Profession”, in 1880, at a banquet in his honor
Source: Labor’s Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979
“In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.”
— Oscar Callaway(1872-1947) U.S. Congressman, TX-D (1911-1917)
Source: Congressional Record of February 9, 1917, page 2947, as entered by Representative Oscar Callaway of Texas
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
— William Colby(1920-1996) former Director of the CIA
Source: in Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don’t Want You to See (2000), by Dave McGowan
“One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. And the situation is likely to become much worse as a result of radical deregulation efforts by the Bush administration and some horrendous court decisions. Television is the means by which most Americans get their “news.” Without exception, every major network is owned by a huge conglomerate that has enormous conflicts of interest. … The bottom line is that fewer and fewer huge conglomerates are controlling virtually everything that the ordinary American sees, hears and reads. This is an issue that Congress can no longer ignore.”
— Bernie Sanders(1941-) US Senator VT, former US Congressman VT
Source: “Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media,” The Hill (12 June 2002)
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In chronological order, here you have laid out for you a long-standing secret of cooperation between Big Business and Big Government to hide, distort, pervert, and twist the truth – for well over 120 years, now.
This is why it’s SO IMPORTANT to teach everyone, young and old(especially the young) to develop and use a healthy skepticism about any and everything anyone in gov’t tells them, or that they “learn” from teevee. “Critical thinking” is imperative, if you prefer not being made a fool of on a regular basis.
“Trust me” is one of George Carlin’s 3 Big Lies. The second is “The check’s in the mail.” The third? x-rated, so if you really wanna know, use google. The point is, TRUST NO ONE in gov’t or media. About ANYthing.
“The only possible safety for honest men,” said Edmund Burke, “is to believe all possible evil of evil men.”(unsaid, but perhaps implied, here, is to take steps to forestall even the POTENTIAL for evil by maintaining a sharp watch.)
Or as perhaps my favorite Founding Father, Jefferson, put it:
“It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights… Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power… Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go… In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
–Thomas Jefferson
Source: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:388
Your presentation so complete it makes my observations tho
relavant vastly less significant then your lengthly statement of facts!
Christopher-
LOL!
Thanks, i think; believe me, i ain’t no smarter than you or anyone, i’ve just been collecting “Liberty Quotes” for around 10 years, now, and have learned how to search my Word doc for particular ones, that’s all.
Don’t be intimidated; write anything you wish. You have ideas, i have ideas – if we share them, we are each richer by one idea. If i have a penny and you have a penny and we give each other our pennies, we’re none-the-richer.
One of the reasons i began to study liberty is that the book of James, in the NT, recommends it. If you’re interested, have a visit to liberty-tree.ca and sign up; they usually send out 3 quotes per weekday, usually on a common theme; lately, it’s been on taxation.
We cannot be surprised or disappointed with this outcome. The American people and congress have been fed lie after lie by the false media propaganda. Obama has had his way with congress. Congress just rubber stamped most everything he wanted. The Wahhabi Invasion of America is right on schedule. The constitution does the American people no good if Congress will not enforce the constitution. We must elect someone for president that actually loves this country and will uphold the constitution instead of insulting it like this Obama Muslim president fraud has done. CAIR and their following are doing everything they can to rig the democrat vote as the majority vote. Hillary will never pay for her crimes as long as Obama and CAIR are here in this country. If the Muslim culture was not filthy and a true religion of peace, they would vote republican to show their solidarity to the American people. We know the answer here.
Constitutionalist, I am definitely seeing more clearly now why there is little coverage on Clinton’s discrepancies.
Jan-
“discrepancies”? You are too kind – WAY too kind! 8^D
But believe me when i say do NOT trust me; check things out for yourself. After all, i could be lying!(i’m NOT, but i COULD be.)
And if i have been of some small service in awakening you, you can thank me best by passing info along.
This is the kind of CANCER one gets when the BEAN COUNTERS
are in charge of the Editorial Department = Journalists!
BUT Liberals will be LIBERALS, my Brookline, MA Weekly heralded Hillary’s Victory in the primary
without mention of Donald Trump winning the GOP contest! As if only SHE was up for NOMINATION.
I HAVE SAID THAT WHEN THE 4TH ESTATES CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS ARE FORMALLY
REMOVED . . . THEY WON’T NOTICE SINCE “THEY” GAVE THEM AWAY YEARS AGO!
GREATEST TODAY EXAPMPLE OF Animal Farm 2016 it the CNN firing of Curt Schilling who, like TRUMP
is guilty of speaking the TRUTH . . . AMAZING that with DNC, GOP and the strongest PAC in the form of
mEDIA attacking TRUMP he is THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE!
While Congress and Senate will check out lint hair in Belly Button of prospective Suprem Court Justice!
(can’t blame this on Imon Barack Soeto Barry Obamma or who ever he is!)
GREATEST TODAY EXAPMPLE OF Animal Farm 2016 is the CNN firing of Curt Schilling
who, like TRUMP is guilty of speaking the TRUTH . . . AMAZING that with DNC, GOP and
the strongest PAC in the form of mEDIA attacking TRUMP he is THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE!
(can’t blame this on Imon Barack Soeto Barry Obamma or who ever he is!)
Our elected representatives are leading us down a path so dark that it’s almost incomprehensible. They aren’t ready for Americans to know what they are truly up to…but many conspiracy “theories” are about to be proven not to be theories at all. Depopulation is about to commence. EBT and SNAP will be cut off to many of the poorest people and banks are on the verge of collapse. UN Agenda 2030 is in full swing and the hammer will drop sometime in 2016.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
For the past eight years the media has served as Obama’s propaganda machine. The media has ignored or washed over all of his failings. The media has attacked his critics. The media has attempted to shape or even create the news rather than report the facts. The media has been in love with Obama and now he turns on them because he thinks that they still reveal too much about him and his administration. These days it is difficult to believe anything that may reported by the media.
wizard-
Hmm; guess PC prevented you from writing “WHITE”washed, eh? *grin*
But the power of the media is immense, especially teevee; television emits alpha-wave frequencies quite similar to those achieved by those in deep meditation, contemplative prayer, or hypnosis. Here’s an experiment to try: the next time you see a bunch of people watching teevee, watch THEM, instead; watch how their faces transform.
“Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.”
— Richard Haass(1951- ) President of the Council on Foreign Relations since July of 2003, National Security Council Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs (1989-93)
U.S. National Security Council
Source: on the U.S. War with Iraq. New York Times, Nov. 5, 1991, p. B3
“National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we’re not living in the Soviet Union of the United States, we certainly have returned to 1776 and ‘taxation without representation.’ ”
— Michael Moriarty(1941) American-Canadian stage and screen actor, jazz musician
“Television has allowed us to create a common culture, and without it we would not have been able to accomplish our goal.”
— Dr. Morris Janowitz(1919-1988) American sociologist and professor of psychology, Chicago University
Source: American Story, Public Television, December 1, 1984
“Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s House and beats a confession out of him—and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded — after all, the cop was protecting us.”
— Gerry Spence, Lawyer and author
Source: Give Me Liberty, 1998
“Television, I would say, isn’t an advertising medium. It’s a selling medium.”
— William S. Paley, (1901-1990) Founder of CBS
Source: Quoted in Broadcasting, May 31, 1976
“He [a U.S. Senator] knows he’s got to buy time on my radio station, so he’s going to lend me an ear. We’re keeping them alive back home and that’s why the newspaper and radio and TV people are more effective lobbyists.”
— Joseph Costello, owner of 5 radio stations in Louisville, KY
Source: before a U.S. Congressional Hearing, on how media owners affect U.S. politics. U.S. Congressional Quarterly, August 2, 1980, 2179.
Also, see the following:
.iamawake.co/your-brain-waves-change-when-you-watch-tv/
So in truth, there’s not a “war” between the D’OweBama maladministration and so much as there is ACTIVE COOPERATION.
Great posts!
we are a 3rd world country. this has to change.
Its difficult to feel sorry for the media because much of the liberal press has given Obama a free ride during his Administration and there have only been two times in 7 years that they have made a serious protest and one occurred when they wanted to put FCC monitors in the newsrooms. The other had to do, I believe, with access to the President or some such incident that pissed them off. They have completely abrogated their 1st Amendment Rights, do little investigative reporting except on the people they don’t like ie: One news service has put 20 reporters to work discrediting Donald Trump ( Is this really their function) Perhaps they should have put those 20 reporters to uncover all the lies and misdeeds of Obama and Clinton who have committed far more serious and damaging crimes than Donald Trump could hope to commit. Additionally, the press has demonstrated unmitigated bias, has attempted to blatantly impact on the election of specific people and not disclosed the negatives on those people they favor. They haven’t done a terribly good job and most of them are not deemed to be credible.
Sorry state of affairs but they reaped what they sowed so it’s too bad.
I want to state at the outset that this comment has nothing to do with this article in particular. I am interested in sharing some bipartisan thoughts about the topic, We Are The Party, and address it to both Democrats and Republicans alike.
This election cycle has focused my thinking about the process we go through in both parties to select a candidate to represent us in the November elections. During the Democratic primaries Democrats vote for their choice but the “Party” has super delegates who are not beholding to the rank and file Democratic voter. On the Republican side it is apparent that when they don’t like who the rank and file Republicans are voting for “they” the “Party” try to decide who is going to be the nominee over the choice of the majority of their members. In both cases the Democratic and Republican parties forget that in reality you and I “Are the Party” and we should be the ones that ultimately decide who represents us.
To this end I am suggesting a voter “Revolution” where people push back hard on their respective parties and remind those in charge that you and I are the party and we really don’t care for these rules that take the ultimate say away from those of us who are also registered Democrats and Republicans. I would urge those of you who agree to write and call your respective Congressional, State and Local representatives to complain about the “process” in addition to the DNC and RNC depending on your party affiliation.
I think its time that the people involved in the political process understand that they only derive their authority from the People when we give it to them and WE need to recognize that when we acquiesce and let them do as they wish we are abrogating our individual prerogatives to have them represent us as we would like to be represented.
Those of you who feel you agree with my sentiments are free to use this statement in any comments or letters or conversations you have. It is my intention to insert this statement in the comments of every article I read online and to hopefully start a movement that will hold both political parties accountable to their members.
Thanks for reading this whether you agree or not.
This post is propaganda. When Bush II was president there was an endless stream of bad mouth reporting of everything he did or said. Despite this he won reelection which almost seem like a miracle in the face of such an outpouring of negativity. I think the press is trying to throw O under the bus to save themselves. What they have been doing for almost 8 years is . just printing/releasing any propaganda put out by the Obama propaganda machine that must be operating out of the WH. At best they are opinionators, not reporters and just parrot anything issued by the WH propaganda office. The press has come under heavy criticism and rejection for being 99 44/100 % pure liberal . I don’t doubt this admin would try to control what is reported, but the press’s being a bed fellow with the WH is the rest of the story.
Well this is a joke. The “media” who couldn’t get far enough up Obamas a** the first four years of that joke of a president are only now complaining about that over used word ” transparency “. You will notice that the ones who throw that word around are the least transparent , Obama, Clinton , Pelosi etc. I have no sympathy for the media , they were suckered by Satan himself. Any President who gets rid of the nativity scene at the WH his first term yet sides with Abortion advocates which has murdered 61 million babies since RvWade is pure evil. Any administration that supports sodomy and same sex marriage yet allows the incarceration of a Christian for not following a path if destruction is pure evil. Any President who takes in a ball game with a dictator when he should be uniting with countries that are under terrorist attacks is pure evil. Any Americans who put this man in office will have to give an account to God. Was it really worth that free cell phone ? Welfare checks instead of work? Get your affairs in order people because it was you who caused the fall of this once great nation . Your apathy and silence over the past 7 years speaks volumes and now you want to complain?
The Repubs supposedly control congress and the Prez is acting like he runs a communist country. That’s why we must make a change preferably to Trump and the repubs better get behind him quick or NO more Repubs. Un-elect all RINOs.
President Obama promised a lot of things which he did not deliver on.
This should come as no surprise to smart people.
Dave-
This should come as no surprise to smart people.
Some, perhaps most, only “smart” after being beaten repeatedly.