USA Today’s Susan Page: Obama administration most ‘dangerous’ to media in history
At some point, a compendium of condemnations against the Obama administration’s record of media transparency (actually, opacity) must be assembled. Notable quotations in this vein come from former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who said, “It is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering”; New York Times reporter James Risen, who said, “I think Obama hates the press”; and CBS News’s Bob Schieffer, who said, “This administration exercises more control than George W. Bush’s did, and his before that.”
USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page has added a sharper edge to this set of knives. Speaking Saturday at a White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) seminar, Page called the current White House not only “more restrictive” but also “more dangerous” to the press than any other in history, a clear reference to the Obama administration’s leak investigations and its naming of Fox News’s James Rosen as a possible “co-conspirator” in a violation of the Espionage Act.
The WHCA convened the event both to strategize over how to open up the byways of the self-proclaimed most transparent administration in history, as well as to compare war stories on the many ways in which it is not. Peter Baker, the veteran Washington reporter from the New York Times, provided perhaps the best instance of White House-administered madness. In covering a breaking story recently, Baker received a note from a White House handler indicating that President Obama had been briefed on the matter in question.
That information came to Baker “on background.” The gist: Not from me — a meeting has occurred..
full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/10/27/usa-todays-susan-page-obama-administration-most-dangerous-to-media-in-history/
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BS except if you were under a rock for the last 14 years. And they know that the "media" covers up the good stories about Obama and MegaPhones the Benghazi etc Shite Exponentially.
US Mediawhore$$$$$$ 
Boo Hoo WAHWAHWAH
Moose-sparkle really did this country a favor by thinking she was actually qualified for the job as John McCain's veep.
And considering how bad she was at articulating any kind of a coherent political message, her word salad diatribes about Obama "palling around with terrorists" were only intensified by Faux Snooze constantly drooling over her saying how good looking she was all of the time!
As if Miss America contestants are qualified to be the leaders of our country, based solely on their looks alone!
Nevermind the fact that Obama had to pull this country back from the edge of the abyss and create 14 million jobs on his own, without the help of the Republicans!
But, you don't hear a lot of commentary about how well the economy is going these days on almost any tv program, including the supposedly liberal programs on MSNBC.
That's how bad the mainstream media has been at reporting the real news . . the good news of all the good work that President Obama has done in less than 6 years, despite the most intense filibustering attempts by the Republican party in the entire history of the United States!
Just imagine how much more President Obama could have accomplished by now if it were not for all of the blocking actions taken by the Gridlock Obstructure Party!!!
<---- Grrrrriiidddlloocckkkkk!!!
Gawd I hate gridlock!!
My parents subscribed to USA Today when it came out because they thought (knew) it was a child friendly newspaper. Not kidding - I was about 8 or 9 when it was first published and we were expected to sit down to dinner each night prepared to discuss a world or national issue. 
And, look at you.. you're still interested in world events!
I take it you weren't too excited about it in the early years. 
But I used to read the Wall Street Journal (read at the collegiate level in the second grade) and at the end of the day - they didn't want to be bothered with "business" talk. Those "greed grabbers"! 
no, srsly, the woman runs a modeling agency and moonlights writing "Susan's Page" for something called MidWeek that gets mailed to everyone on O'ahu. I'm like, 
, but it turns out that this is a different Susan Page with actual credentials. 
