* White House News Conference
RUSSELL MOKHIBER, russell@nationalpress.com,
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0305-10.htm
http://www.corporatepredators.org
Editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, Mokhiber was at the White House news conference last night. He said today: "Last night's might have been the most controlled Presidential news conference in recent memory. Even the President admitted during the press conference that 'this is a scripted' press conference. The President had a list of 17 reporters who he was going to call on. He didn't take any questions from reporters raising their hands. And he refused to call on Helen Thomas, the dean of the White House press corps, who traditionally asks the first question...."
For more information, contact Sam Husseini or David Zupan, at the
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * ipa@accuracy.org * http://www.accuracy.org
RUSSELL MOKHIBER, russell@nationalpress.com,
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0305-10.htm
http://www.corporatepredators.org
Editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, Mokhiber was at the White House news conference last night. He said today: "Last night's might have been the most controlled Presidential news conference in recent memory. Even the President admitted during the press conference that 'this is a scripted' press conference. The President had a list of 17 reporters who he was going to call on. He didn't take any questions from reporters raising their hands. And he refused to call on Helen Thomas, the dean of the White House press corps, who traditionally asks the first question...."
For more information, contact Sam Husseini or David Zupan, at the
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * ipa@accuracy.org * http://www.accuracy.org