Comments on: Dana Milbank vs Nico Pitney=Old Media Trying to Stuff New Media in Locker

By: Washington Post Publisher’s Apology Doesn’t Wash « Daily Dose

Washington Post Publisher’s Apology Doesn’t Wash « Daily Dose — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:12:40 +0000

[...] conflicts of interests. For example, when this story broke, I was immediately put in mind of Dana Milbank’s lecture of HuffPo’s Nico Pitney on Kurtz’s own “Reliable Sources.” That splinter in Pitney’s eye is [...]

By: “Washington Post For Sale” Bombshell Good News/Bad News « Daily Dose

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:46:04 +0000

[...] stunned, and was immediately reminded of WaPo “Dickwhisperer” Dana Milbank’s lecture to HuffPo’s Nico Pitney about [...]

By: Video: Chip Reid and Helen Thomas Give Gibbs What-the-Frak-For « Daily Dose

Video: Chip Reid and Helen Thomas Give Gibbs What-the-Frak-For « Daily Dose — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:09:17 +0000

[...] that the White House controls the press is a little tougher for me to swallow (the Pitney thing, as I’ve said before, is a red herring). The job of Press Secretary has, for a long time, been to stay on message. [...]

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:55:36 +0000

If an example of snobs Lynn Sweet and her buddy Melinda Henneberger’s “traditional journalism” includes the former’s fluffy FLOTUS Watch on AOL PD, I’ll take the “new media” any day! But, it could be considered a bastion of fashion journalism, I suppose.

By: Rooker

Rooker — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:49:32 +0000

Frankly, this whole thing is nothing more than a spoiled brat whining because his little brother’s piece of dessert is slightly larger. Then after pointing out how stupid they’re acting, they claim ‘YOU DON’T LOVE ME ANYMORE!’

Get over it.

My problem with these two people in particular:

Milbanks wants to paint it as a threat to the free press. Someone please open an atlas in front of him and draw a great big circle around China, Iran and Cuba so he can see where free press is *actually* in danger.

Carpenter mentioned something about “up front where everyone has fair access to the president.”

No. Sorry, but we’re going to stay in the real world for this. Here in the real world, there is a set order in who gets 1st question, who gets 2nd and so on. That the president went off the itinerary and gave 2nd question to someone else is ALL this is about.

Again, get over it.