by Paul Bedard
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\nFor some Washington reporters and media execs, cheering their team from the sidelines just isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t good enough: Tugging on a red, white and blue Team Obama jersey is the answer.<\/p>\n
That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case for a whopping 19 journalists and media executives, including five from the Washington Post and three each from ABC and CNN, who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gone into the administration or center-left groups supporting the president.<\/p>\n
Those inside the administration hit 14 this month when the Post\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Stephen Barr joined the Labor Department. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a record, say some revolving door watchers, and could even be much higher: The Post reports that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dozens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of former journalists have joined the administration, although Washington Secrets couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t verify that tally.<\/p>\n
Many are in communications and speech writing offices, most prominently Jay Carney, the president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spokesman who ran Time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Washington bureau, and husband to ABC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Claire Shipman. Some joined as the news business collapsed, many to finally voice their politics, and others, notably former Transportation spokeswoman Jill Zuckman, because she liked her future boss, Secretary Ray LaHood, a rare Republican in the administration. That relationship rocked: LaHood broke through the lower-tier Cabinet P.R. ceiling to become one of the most well-known Transportation secretaries ever. She had worked for the Chicago Tribune.<\/p>\n
The revolving door isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a surprise to critics of the media and Obama. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The number of reporters going into the Obama administration merely confirms what I knew and what most conservatives long believed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Noam Neusner, himself one of the few reporters hired as a Bush speech writer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is a vast supply of liberals in newsrooms, they are very happy to support Obama administration policies if they can get hired and they barely hide their ideology in the way they cover the news.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Neusner, who I worked with at U.S. News, said that he too might have been guilty of a pro-Bush bias, but said correctly: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My editors and colleagues were surprised to hear that I was a Republican.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
A former GOP Capitol Hill and cabinet spokesman added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s frustrating to see so many reporters that had relationships with trusted sources give up their \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcimpartiality\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and start playing for the other side. It does show that the game is stacked in favor of the other side when most reporters still working in their profession remain silent.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Stephen Hess, a presidential and journalism scholar at the Brookings Institution, said reporters can be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conflicted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when they trade places. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On the other hand,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reporters going back to journalism after a stint in government are always better reporters in that they now understand how government really works.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Couple this along with the expose` the Daily Caller is doing on Media Matters and its one hell of a propaganda machine Pharaoh Obama is assembling, just in time for the election!! If you thought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[7641,232,248],"tags":[7644,41,1582,2799,7646,680,170,7648,7649,499,7643,7645,6475,1519,7650,7642,7647,6850],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}