{"id":11747,"date":"2014-03-21T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2014-06-03T01:19:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T08:19:42","slug":"right-wing-media-feeding-frenzy-over-false-story-about-white-house-press-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11747","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing Media Feeding Frenzy Over False Story About White House Press Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a strain of faith that intertwines everything that emanates from the conservative media pulpit. They are so fiercely intent on believing any bad news about President Obama and all things liberal that they will suspend common sense entirely in order to preserve their dark fantasies.<\/p>\n

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Such was the case when Catherine Anaya, a local reporter with the Phoenix CBS affiliate KPHO, aired a segment<\/a> introducing her interview with the President. She made some startling comments that reverberated throughout the right-wing mediasphere:<\/p>\n

Anaya:<\/strong> We started here shortly after 8 o’clock with a coffee with press secretary Jay Carney inside his office in the West Wing. And this was off-the-record so we were able to ask him all about some of the preparation that he does on a regular basis for talking to the press in his daily press briefings. He showed us a very long list of items that he has to be well-versed on every single day.<\/p>\n

And then he also mentioned that a lot of times, unless it’s something breaking, the questions that the reporters actually ask-or the correspondents-they are provided to him in advance. So then he knows what he’s going to be answering and sometimes those correspondents and reporters also have those answers printed in front of them, because of course it helps when they’re producing their reports for later on. So that was very interesting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, Anaya’s report began with the statement that her meeting with press secretary Jay Carney was “off-the-record,”<\/em> and then proceeded to report it anyway. That’s the first sign that we are dealing with a spurious story. But the core of the controversy concerns her assertion that White House correspondents are required to supply their questions to Carney in advance. That nugget of pseudo-news set off a flurry of outrage from the usual right-wing media hacks. For instance…<\/p>\n