White House Notebook: Obama To US Media: 'Behave'

[Purveyor]

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — One element of President Barack Obama's Africa policy is to encourage a free press, although he offered repeated reminders for U.S. reporters traveling with him on the continent to be on their best behavior.

"Americans, behave yourselves," he needled Saturday as a contingent of U.S. and South African media was pulled from a quick photo op with President Jacob Zuma.

Obama spoke just before their joint news conference and may have been trying to suggest his press corps keep its questions tight.

On Saturday, both U.S. and South African reporters asked multi-part questions. Obama didn't try to cut anyone off, but instead said the U.S. press corps must be happy the news conference was taking place in a wood-paneled chamber inside Pretoria's grand Union Buildings.

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[alarimer]

1. Of those the stenographers of the press pool will follow orders.

Instead of doing their actual jobs as journalists and calling Obama on his bullshit.

We used to have a free press, but the big wigs in the press rely on access to politicians for their work, so of course there is no real investigative journalism except for people like Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill and others.

[freshwest]

2. Oh, the horror. Better than having the press embarrass the USA by demanding booze like the flyboys.

The ones in the plane going to Havana who objected to insufficient quantities of what they wanted to get drunk on. Such boorish behavior in South Africa with its history and going through the death of Mandela would not have been helpful or respectful.

Although respect for themselves or others is something the conservative billionaire owned media shills lost a long time ago.

Doh! 'BehaveGate' starts with a 'B' so it sounds just like 'Benghazi'! Go with it, M$M! You're officially being oppressed! BTW, M$M, KMA.