Obama administration disdain for the press surpassed Nixon White House per NY Times counsel, 5/29/2013. Draconian, overbroad, and lacking sensitivity to rights of reporters-NPR

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Obama administration disdain for the press even greater than Nixon years, per NY Times counsel:

"As NPR reported in 2013, James Goodale, the former general counsel for The New York Times, “says the Justice Department in the Obama years surpasses the Nixon White House in its disdain for the press.”  

David Folkenflik NPR Media Correspondent, Business Desk"...

 

Wed. Jan. 18, 2017, "Obama's Final Press Conference As President, Annotated," NPR

Above quote included among NPR's notes to final Obama press conference on 1/18/17. Near beginning of his remarks.

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NPR, May 29, 2013:

"FOLKENFLIK: James Goodale, author of the new book "Fighting for the Press," on the relationship between the government and the media, was the New York Times general counsel amid the landmark Pentagon Papers case. He says the Justice Department in the Obama years surpasses the Nixon White House in its disdain for the press. 

GOODALE: I would describe it as draconian, overbroad, and not done with any sensitivity to the rights of reporters."...

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