NYTimes, AP Stiffing "Scandal-Generating" Eric Holder
Neil Munro writes at The Daily Caller:
Scandal-generating Attorney General Eric Holder is getting rejection notices from some established media companies who don’t want to attend a meeting apparently aimed at assuaging Holder’s "creeping sense of remorse" over his approval of police spying on reporters.
Both the Associated Press and the New York Times have announced they will not attend the event if it is off the record.
CNN announced May 30 it would boycott the meeting, if it is off-the-record.
The unprecedented meeting was scheduled by President Barack Obama in order to address the media’s anger over the discovery that Holder and his deputies had approved unprecedented surveillance of reporters working for AP and Fox News.
"Opposition from establishment media outlets is a strategic danger to Obama, who is trying to regain Democratic control of the House in November 2014 and pass a far-reaching immigration rewrite this year," Munro writes. "The tacit cooperation of the established media has until now been an essential asset for a president trying to push through an unpopular agenda amid massive federal deficit spending, a lousy economy and very high unemployment."
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