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It's downright dangerous for anyone in the American Press to criticize the Dear Leader. Even some of his fellow Communists in the Press are beginning to speak about it.
Suffocating pressure: Former ThinkProgress writer describes White House censorship
Zaid Jilani, a former blogger with the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, explained this week how the Obama administration frequently tries to censor the progressive organizations content when it departs from the White Houses agenda.
Jiliani was reacting to two on-air protests by journalists opposed to Russias invasion of southern Ukraine. The two worked for Russia Today (RT) an English-speaking media outlet funded directly by Moscow and felt their bosses were trying to censor their opinions.
In a post titled, How Working in Washington Taught Me Were All A Little Like RT America, Jilani explained how the White House frequently played the part of the Kremlin leaning on management to push their writers in a particular direction, and punishing them if they strayed from the party line.
Im writing this post to explain how working in Washington taught me were all a little bit like the good folks who work at RT America, Jilani explained, struggling against editorial censors, doing our best to follow our conscience despite sometimes suffocating pressures from our publishers and sponsors.
The blogger never assumed he would agree with everything pushed by the Center for American Progresss Action Fund when he joined the 501(c)(4) nonprofit to write about national security in 2009. But he soon discovered that one topic in particular was entirely shielded from criticism the war in Afghanistan, which President Obama was then in the process of escalating.
One of the controversial topics that was very constrained in our writing at ThinkProgress in 2009 was Afghanistan., he wrote. CAP had decided not to protest Obamas surge, so most of our writing on the topic was simply neutral we werent supposed to take a strong stand....
Read more: Former ThinkProgress writer: White House censored us | The Daily Caller
Suffocating pressure: Former ThinkProgress writer describes White House censorship
Zaid Jilani, a former blogger with the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, explained this week how the Obama administration frequently tries to censor the progressive organizations content when it departs from the White Houses agenda.
Jiliani was reacting to two on-air protests by journalists opposed to Russias invasion of southern Ukraine. The two worked for Russia Today (RT) an English-speaking media outlet funded directly by Moscow and felt their bosses were trying to censor their opinions.
In a post titled, How Working in Washington Taught Me Were All A Little Like RT America, Jilani explained how the White House frequently played the part of the Kremlin leaning on management to push their writers in a particular direction, and punishing them if they strayed from the party line.
Im writing this post to explain how working in Washington taught me were all a little bit like the good folks who work at RT America, Jilani explained, struggling against editorial censors, doing our best to follow our conscience despite sometimes suffocating pressures from our publishers and sponsors.
The blogger never assumed he would agree with everything pushed by the Center for American Progresss Action Fund when he joined the 501(c)(4) nonprofit to write about national security in 2009. But he soon discovered that one topic in particular was entirely shielded from criticism the war in Afghanistan, which President Obama was then in the process of escalating.
One of the controversial topics that was very constrained in our writing at ThinkProgress in 2009 was Afghanistan., he wrote. CAP had decided not to protest Obamas surge, so most of our writing on the topic was simply neutral we werent supposed to take a strong stand....
Read more: Former ThinkProgress writer: White House censored us | The Daily Caller