Last week President Obama banned Fox News from involvement in a press conference with the pay czar. After the other four major news stations found out about the news they freaked out and said that if Fox was not allowed to do the interview they would drop out. This of course would no go over well and Fox was allowed to be in the press conference.
Does President Obama have the right to try and ban a news station from going to a press conference? My answer is no especially considering that the only reason he did this was because Fox gave him some bad press, sorry buddy but what public figure hasn’t gotten bad press?
The Bill of Rights is there to protect us from this kind of situation, The 1st Amendment giving us the right to a free press. Or how about the fact that we’ve been trying to come to some kind of reform with health care for months but no decisions are being made? It seems that Obama would rather been seen in “good light” that deal with the big issues.
I’d also like to point out that I think it’s wonderful that the other news stations went against what was said and invited Fox into the press conference but I am skeptical about their reasons. My first thoughts were oh wow ethics in journalism still exists but after thinking the situation though I think it was done to cover their own butts. Next week CNN may run an article that makes Obama looks bad and in retaliation he will ban them from the next press conference.
Does the Constitution or Bill of Rights have no more meaning and wouldn’t it kill our founding fathers if they knew what they worked so hard for was being overlooked by the President himself?
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