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Monday, October 21, 2013

Abramson: Obama Worse On Reporters Than Bush

Jill Abramson
CBS This Morning brought on New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson on Friday with all the honors, with Charlie Rose lauding her for leading her paper to four Pulitzer Prizes this year as “the first female” in the top job, and asking her how she’d put an “Abramson imprint” on the paper.

But the interesting part came later, according to Newsbusters.

Abramson agreed with her reporter David Sanger that the Obama administration is worse than the much-criticized Bush administration when it comes to cracking down on reporters seeking interviews with government sources.

It was almost funny, writes Tim Graham at Newsbusters, as three different CBS hosts asked the question, like they could not accept the answer:

Here’s the video with reference to the Obama Administration and leaks coming at the 2:28 mark:


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