WHO CARES WHAT JEFFERSON SAID

"Reporters who cover the White House are accustomed to being
spun by administration officials. The modern presidential
toolbox includes carefully rationed press conferences,
say-nothing spokesmen, dead-of-night releases of unfavorable
news, and phony 'town hall' meetings composed solely of
sycophantic supporters. More recently, government agencies
have issued fake-news videos and secretly contracted with
two pundits to promote the administration's policies on
education and marriage.

But now the art of press handling has evolved into actual
manhandling. The Bush team has expanded the use of 'minders,'
employees or volunteers who escort journalists from
interview to interview within a venue or at a newsworthy
event."

Don't Mind Me. I'm Just Doing My Job
Paul Farhi