White House Press Correspondants’ Association is crafting a list of ‘press freedom demands’ to send to Barack Obama

 It appears as if the White House Press Correspondents’ Association is growing so disenchanted with Barack Obama’s lack of transparency that they are crafting a list of “press freedom demands.” Here is more:

The White House Correspondents’ Association, the organization that represents hundreds of reporters who cover the presidency, is crafting an extensive list of press freedom rules that it wants the White House to adhere to — following an incident in which President Obama kept reporters out of a meeting with Mormon leaders.

“The principle of the full [White House press] pool is so important to us that we’re working to address it in a set of written practices we’d like this and future administrations to follow,” Association President Christi Parsons said in a statement to the Washington Examiner media desk. “We’ve been working on that document for almost a year now and will have more to say about it when we release it later this spring.”

   I have to admit that it is hard for me to feel sorry for the White House reporters because this is something that many of us have been complaining about for years, while the press has been more than willing to overlook certain concerns because they wanted to endear themselves to, and protect, the President. But the love was not returned and only once they began to feel the effects of Barack Obama’s lack of transparency did they become outraged. They thought they were part of the clique but now it appears as if they finally realized Barack Obama was using them; they feel like a jilted lover and in a way I suppose they are…

  If Barack Obama is unwilling to listen to the Congress on policy what makes the White House reporters think the President will give a damn about what they say in their silly little list of demands?

Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium