TPorg - Reporters not allowed to talk to people in Palin audience

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://thinkprogress.org/

Palin staff keep journalists locked inside press area to prevent them from writing ‘negative things.’
During Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) speech in Florida this morning, campaign staffers kept the press locked out of the park and away from supporters attending the speech:

Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn’t permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, “Can I help you?” and turn the person around.

When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn’t allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written. The campaign wanted to avoid that possibility Monday.

Palin has still yet to give a single press conference since being tapped as Sen. John McCain’s running mate on August 29.

[FSogol]

1. The Press needs to stop covering her until they get proper access. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. 1930s Germany revisited?

[KewlKat]

3. Why doesn't the journalists just boycott her shitty speeches?

They are led like a bull by a ring and they tolerate it...........WHY? Can you imagine if Obama or Biden did that? The rethugs would express outrage as would the media. The dem ticket is damned if they do or don't.

As time passes, Sarwaaah reminds me of that lead character in "A Face in the Crowd".

[stillcool]

4. Palin media black-out

shut her down. How nice would that be?

[LiberalFighter]

8. "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

That might be appropriate.

Media should just tell the viewers that McCain is not running for President.

[muntrv]

5. So, Carribou Barbie loves Klaus Barbie's party?

[SoonerPride]

6. How is this even legal?

Really?

How is it legal to keep the press from talking to people?

[LiberalFighter]

9. It's their event. They provide the press credentials that allows press to be there.

BUT if the media was smart they would station themselves outside the venue and attempt to interview anyone they want. The key is that outside the venue the campaign does not have control.

[barack the house]

7. They are just unaccountable which is unacceptable, "folks can't afford more of the same.">

In the words of a potential next great leader.