September 05, 2003
Ashcroft shuts out print journalists in favor of sound bites
"I think it sucks, but if he wants to talk to TV, there's not much we can do," Nick Fox, a New York Times national editor, responds via e-mail. "The president does that; I can't recall the AG doing it."
Jim Naughton, president of the venerable Poynter Institute, says he is also not amused.
"I'm not sure Poynter has (or should have) a policy on attorneys general acting more like generals than attorneys," he writes. "But I can't imagine anyone here thinking an employee of the public's should be barring any journalist from a press conference. If it had been an interview conducted by one of the networks you might legitimately have been excluded. But if it's a press conference that would seem to be open to the press. Duh."
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