Minnesota News Council: At last, press starts doing its job

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Hey, look. Somebody else is tickled to see the revived WH Press Corps. :)

http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5505394.html
Gary Gilson: At last, press starts doing its job White House reporters showed some skepticism and vigor that's been absent for years.
(Gilson is executive director of the Minnesota News Council)

July 14, 2005 GILSON0714

At the most raucous White House press briefing in years, the president's spokesman, Scott McClellan, used time-tested techniques to fend off questions about Karl Rove's possible involvement in the outing of a CIA agent.

McClellan kept saying he would not comment in the midst of a federal investigation of the matter, and when pressed by reporter after reporter he kept saying that they all knew him, that they could rely upon him for a comment when the time was right. In other words, he was saying, "I'm a chum."

Wrong.

He wasn't a chum; he was chum -- the bait fishermen scatter to attract sharks.

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