Here’s Why Mainstream Journalists Become Propagandists: Reporter Says Senior White House Officials Contact & Threaten Them Over Running Stories The Barack Obama Administration Had The Justice Department Seized Phone Records From AP Reporters “A very senior person makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, you’re gonna regret doing something that you believe in” “I think the effect on the media has already been felt. I mean, you have sources that are being shut down, doors just being shut in people’s faces. Now, that was probably the intention” “No negotiations. The government government just simply came in, got the subpoenas, took the phone logs, and then notified the AP after the fact. And the AP calls this a, quote, massive and unprecedented intrusion.” “It’s being called an unprecedented government intrusion. The Justice Department secretly collected 2 months of telephone records from the Associated Press and its reporters” “Associated Press CEO Gary Prewitt says, quote, these records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the AP during a 2 month period, provide a roadmap to AP’s news gathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.”
