Fox News Host: Covering Romney’s International Trip Feels Like Being In ‘A Modified Petting Zoo’ [View all]

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Source: Think Progress

Fox News Host: Covering Romney’s International Trip Feels Like Being In ‘A Modified Petting Zoo’
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Jul 30, 2012 at 12:24 pm

Journalists following the Romney campaign on the road have voiced some gripes with how they are being treated. They have been asked to submit quotes for approval, barred from asking questions on the rope line, and were temporarily barred from entering a fundraiser to which they’d been promised entry (after media outrage, the campaign reversed its decision).

Now, Fox News’ conservative host Greta Van Susteren has joined the chorus of journalists complaining about treatment from the Romney campaign. As she follows the campaign through Poland today, Van Susteren posted to her blog saying that the press has had no access to the candidate, and that she feels like she is in a petting zoo:



There has been no press access to Governor Romney since we landed in Poland. We (press) are in a holding pattern (I can’t help but feel a bit like the press is a modified petting zoo since we are trapped in a bus while Polish citizens take pictures of us.) Under the headline “Governor Romney won’t like this” we saw a big sign in the crowd for Rep Ron Paul.

The Romney campaign has granted some interviews to journalists, including Van Susteren herself. But he has been much more secretive than predecessors, including Obama who, when traveling abroad, held two press conferences, two appearances on Sunday talk shows, and several television and in-person interviews.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/30/606221/press-feels-like-a-modified-petting-zoo-on-romneys-international-trip/