CNN and HuffPo Join AP, NY Times In Refusing To Attend Off-The-Record Meeting With Holder

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CNN and HuffPo Join AP, NY Times In Refusing To Attend Off-The-Record Meeting With Holder

The lapdogs are in a mini-revolt.

Washington (CNN) - Attorney General Eric Holder’s plans to sit down with media representatives to discuss guidelines for handling investigations into leaks to the news media have run into trouble.
The Associated Press issued a statement Wednesday objecting to plans for the meetings to be off the record. “If it is not on the record, AP will not attend and instead will offer our views on how the regulations should be updated in an open letter,” said Erin Madigan White, the AP’s media relations manager.
The New York Times is taking the same position. “It isn’t appropriate for us to attend an off-the-record meeting with the attorney general,” executive editor Jill Abramson said in a statement.
Like the New York Times and the Associated Press, CNN will decline the invitation for an off-the-record meeting. A CNN spokesperson says if the meeting with the attorney general is on the record, CNN would plan to participate.
The Huffington Post’s Washington bureau chief, Ryan Grim, also said he will not attend unless the meeting is on the record. “A conversation specifically about the freedom of the press should be an open one. We have a responsibility not to betray that,” Grim told CNN.

Update: I was hoping Fox News would send James Rosen.

(The Hill) — Fox News will not attend attend a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder on the Justice Department’s policy of targeting the media in national security leaks investigations if the session is off the record, the network said Thursday.
Fox pointed to a message on Twitter by Fox anchor Bret Baier in confirming the decision.
“Decision: Fox News’ Executive Vice President Michael Clemente has said that Fox News will NOT attend the DOJ meeting if it is OFF the record,” Baier wrote in the message.
A person familiar with the company’s internal debate told The Hill on Wednesday that they would be attending, but a story that ran on Fox early Thursday said they were undecided.

Thank You Zip and CNN

UPDATE: NBC JOINS REVOLT: SAYS NO TO HOLDER 


With stuff like This going on, is the idea that Medicine in America has been Politically Weaponized still an unswallowable pill for anyone?