By Karen Tumulty
She seems like she knows what's going on
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White House Keeps Reporters Behind Barriers At Obama Event..
This is sort of strange. Time?s national political correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that when she attended President Obama?s health care rally in Pennsylvania earlier today she was not allowed to talk to the public.
I arrived at the President?s health care speech at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., about 45 minutes early, hoping I might chat with some of the Pennsylvanians who were here. No such luck. The press was stuck behind two sets of barriers. I tried asking several times (nicely, I promise) to wander a bit and talk to people, but was told I would have to wait until after the event. (Both the crowd and I had been through security screening.)
Sound strange? Tumulty certainly sounded shocked. She twittered she had ?never run into anything like this before, and I have been a reporter covering politics (and the White House) 4 decades. You can see the entire thing unfold on her Twitter account?free the White House press!!
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By Karen Tumulty
She seems like she knows what's going on
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At least in this case they treated everyone the same.
What about that reporter named Helen...no one would let her ask questions.
It's a cruel world.
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........ could do their own analysis of this speech and draw their own conclusions without being told or influenced by the reporter to go by his annuluses and reach his conclusion. Questions themselves asked by reporters can influence opinion
Angeline
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Reporters shouldn't cover speeches and only those in actual attendance may form opinions about them?
Does that really make sense to you?
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