Friday, April 16, 2004
Bush vs. free press...
Iowa State Daily | Online Edition
John Kerry is currently on a national tour of colleges campuses. He is encouraging young people to vote, register their friends to vote, and get involved in their community and their future. Meanwhile, Bush is denying students the right to cover his event.
"I think they missed out on a huge opportunity for getting the president's message out to students." I think the message was sent. Bush doesn't care about young people. He's mortgaged their futures with tax cuts for the wealthy. He's cut funding for education. He;s sending thousands of them to die in a neo-colonialist crusade.
Message received, Mr. President.
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DES MOINES -- Three student newspapers were not allowed to cover President Bush's visit to Des Moines on Thursday.I was president of the Iowa State Democrats in the mid 1990's. Clinton made several trips to Iowa during those years and his staff always made sure that we were involved.
The Iowa State Daily; the Daily Iowan, the student newspaper at the University of Iowa; and the DMACC Chronicle, the student newspaper of the Ankeny campus of Des Moines Area Community College, were all left off the approved list to cover the presidential visit.
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Mike Allsup, reporter for the Chronicle, said the paper had faxed press credential information to the White House press office at 11 a.m. Tuesday, a full day before the due date.
"I think they missed out on a huge opportunity for getting the president's message out to students," he said.
Allsup said he was later contacted by the White House press office and told the president didn't want students covering the event in Des Moines.
John Kerry is currently on a national tour of colleges campuses. He is encouraging young people to vote, register their friends to vote, and get involved in their community and their future. Meanwhile, Bush is denying students the right to cover his event.
"I think they missed out on a huge opportunity for getting the president's message out to students." I think the message was sent. Bush doesn't care about young people. He's mortgaged their futures with tax cuts for the wealthy. He's cut funding for education. He;s sending thousands of them to die in a neo-colonialist crusade.
Message received, Mr. President.
