Little-Acorn
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This is weird.
She gives a speech, and then tries to control the press coverage of it so totally, than nothing gets out?
If somebody recorded it on a smartphone, would she have confiscated it?
What in the world to these liberals think they're doing?
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Hillary Clinton clamps down on speech dissemination
Hillary Clinton clamps down on speech dissemination
By Erik Wemple
October 16 at 10:31 am
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is riding a compelling Hillary Rodham Clinton story. Its not so much about her quite-possible presidential run. Nor is it about the Clinton familys foundation. Nor Benghazi. Its about how Clinton is attempting the impossible: Turning a speech into something approaching an off-the-record occasion.
This morning, the former secretary of state was in Atlanta for a speaking engagement before the National Association of Convenience and Fuel Retailing (NACS). As the AJC reported yesterday, members of the media were barred from the session. Today it reported that a cone of silence had descended on her remarks. Convention officials banned all video and sound recording, social media, and naturally, journalists, wrote the AJCs Greg Bluestein and Jim Galloway.
What happens when a public figure tries to suppress a speech? Does no one find out about what happened? No, of course not. Rather, the speechs contours get communicated to the public in dribs and drabs, with no documentary guarantee of their accuracy.
She gives a speech, and then tries to control the press coverage of it so totally, than nothing gets out?
If somebody recorded it on a smartphone, would she have confiscated it?
What in the world to these liberals think they're doing?
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Hillary Clinton clamps down on speech dissemination
Hillary Clinton clamps down on speech dissemination
By Erik Wemple
October 16 at 10:31 am
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is riding a compelling Hillary Rodham Clinton story. Its not so much about her quite-possible presidential run. Nor is it about the Clinton familys foundation. Nor Benghazi. Its about how Clinton is attempting the impossible: Turning a speech into something approaching an off-the-record occasion.
This morning, the former secretary of state was in Atlanta for a speaking engagement before the National Association of Convenience and Fuel Retailing (NACS). As the AJC reported yesterday, members of the media were barred from the session. Today it reported that a cone of silence had descended on her remarks. Convention officials banned all video and sound recording, social media, and naturally, journalists, wrote the AJCs Greg Bluestein and Jim Galloway.
What happens when a public figure tries to suppress a speech? Does no one find out about what happened? No, of course not. Rather, the speechs contours get communicated to the public in dribs and drabs, with no documentary guarantee of their accuracy.
