What US Corporate Media won’t tell you about Barack Obama
As you may have already gathered from browsing this site, John Pilger is an Australian journalist located in Brittan. On July 4th 2009 he gave the below speech. This is information you will never hear in the US mainstream media. Note the first video in the play list is a clip from the full version, which is second in the play list.
Does this explain why the Obama Administration, just like the Bush Administration, will only allow preselected questions?
Helen Thomas had previously stated the Bush Administration started filtering all questions. Only the questions the President’s staff wanted to answer were allowed through, and that allowed the replies to be prepared in advance. The President would then only call on the people who’s questions he wanted to answer.
Helen Thomas being an unbiased reporter is expressing her outrage because the Obama Administration is carrying on this Bush policy like many others policies.
If you pay attention during Obama’s press conferences, you will notice Obama is doing exactly what Robert Gibbs is attempting to do, only in this case Helen Thomas and Chip Reid are calling out Robert Gibbs on manipulating the press.”
