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there's a great story coming out of maine that really shows you the
relationship between the media and the politicians in the united states
from the article
quote following a critical series of articles in three main newspapers this
week
maine governor paula page who the republican
uh... his office has cut off those papers access
to administration officials
the same week the portland press harold uh... kennedy well kennebec i'm sorry
journal and the morning sentinel published in in-depth analysis of the
administration's work da undermined by ronmental protections
a spokeswoman told them
they would no longer respond to requests even for public documents because the
newspapers parent company quote
made it clear that it opposed to the administration
the papers conducted an extensive investigation into a former corporate
lobbyists appointed by the page to be commissioner of maine's department
environmental protection
what they found it was that
patricia a hollow
or some last name for it so i don't
has found has fought environmental laws an enforcement
sensor appointment in two thousand in eleven
so understand what's going on here
the media and made some local media outlets in maine
were just flat out doing their job in covering the administration decisions he
was making the people he was appointing
and they found out won't pay
uh... wait a second
one of the people u_n_ put both appointed to
uh... very important job for inviolate for environmental
of protection
was a former corporate lobbyists
bird the companies that she's now supposed to be regulating so she has a
tremendous conflict of interest because for bodies are in that industry
nevermind the fact that you might want to go back to it after
uh... what she'd done government right
so they're doing
all of these
uh... rollbacks of regulations and
conceding and not doing their job in letting
the businesses run wild and andrew and the environment multiple ways
and they get all the details of that
and as a response to that the administration just flat-out says you no
longer have access to us anymore
all of your sources in the administration are cut off and even the
talk you're gonna be fired
and well i love the response in the administration because it shows you how
arrogant they are and how little they understand the system in the united
states of america they actually said
uh... where cutting ties with the paper because they made it clear that they
oppose the administration
but their job isn't to support the administration
their job is to get the facts out and at the facts happen a payment negative
light
than by golly and i want to change your mind on policy now don't yet
so but
i'm telling you this particular story and again this comes directly out of
maine
because
you think this is just name
no this is our media
on a federal level in a national level as well
in a nutshell
yun adverse c
the beltway establishment
reporters and journalists
actually asking really hard questions and actually holding the fee
uh... the politicians' feet to the fire
and calling them out on their ***
they always give bob moore softball questions did they go hard they make
sure they're not too hard because you don't worry when your access
who is a politician more likely to grant
special interviews
you know uh... update on what's going on are they gonna go to the person whose
buddy buddy with them
who always rebut closer than a positive light related or the person
but some of them in a negative a lot
their obviously even go to their bodies their friends
who don't say bad things about that
what is the solution to this because this is a major problem
and it's a systemic problem
the answer is
everybody in the media
i know this is almost idealistic it almost sounds completely naive right but
it is possible
everybody in the media
needs to get on the scene page
because it
every single
part of the media
determines we're gonna ask the partition the top questions we recall the marana
corruption they're bs
than they have to go to you if everybody's being hard everybody'd be
difficult
but since everybody scrambling for access and i want to get the first story
they care more about being first and being right
became more about care more about getting consistent access
me getting
the actual factual reality out