Associated Press CEO: Sources will no longer speak to us because of phone monitoring

[AgingAmerican]

The US government’s secret seizure of Associated Press phone records had a “chilling effect” on newsgathering by the agency and other news organizations, AP’s top executive said Wednesday.

“Some longtime trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking with us,” AP president and chief executive Gary Pruitt said in a speech to the National Press Club.

“In some cases, government employees we once checked in with regularly will no longer speak to us by phone. Others are reluctant to meet in person … This chilling effect on news gathering is not just limited to AP."

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Wow, couldn't see this one coming! Journalism is dead in America!

[Earth_First]

1. Mission Accomplished. nt

[railsback]

2. Poetic justice.

[Pholus]

3. Why can't you see that a little less freedom of the press makes us safer!

[AnotherMcIntosh]

4. Obama said: "We're the Most Transparent and Ethical Administration in U.S. History!"

But secretly seized Associated Press phone records and is killing off journalism and governmental accountability.

Fooled ya!

[RC]

8. I enthusiastically voted for Obama the first time, sure of the coming change.

I voted for Obama the second time with a dying hope for change.

As a country we have to start doing better of we are all in very serous trouble.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Real journalists will find a way.

[okaawhatever]

7. Oh please. Journalism died long before the ap subpoena. Maybe if they hadn't outed the presence of a

British double agent inside Al Qaeda Arab Peninsula the subpoena wouldn't have been an issue. They want to take zero responsibility for their actions. Maybe people are concerned about the fact that the Chinese hacked into ap reporters emails. Maybe people are concerned that the Chiinese hacked every single reporters personal computers, email and had their passwords at the New York Times and Washington Post. Maybe they're concerned with the foreign interest who hacked Sheryl Atkisson's computer after cooperating with the James Rosen story about the agent America had inside N Korea. Give me a break.