White House Press Barrier
Speakes states that “presidential news conferences have outgrown their usefulness” and defends the control of information to the public. As justification for this totalitarian view, he explains that corporations also control the message that goes to the public. “This is the way the game is played.”
How odd. Corporations are private ventures, tending to maximize profit for the benefit of a few. The U.S. government and its chief of staff are supposedly accountable to the people for the general welfare of the many.
“A government of the people, by the people, and for the people?” Not really. The guise is broken, the hypocrisy revealed.
GAIL BENHOFF MOORE
Van Nuys
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