Thursday, October 23, 2014

Breitbart Reporter Covering N.H. Senate Race Ordered to Leave Democrat’s Press Conference

Perhaps she doesn't like freedom of the press --
unless it's sympathetic to her agenda.

Breitbart News reporter Matthew Boyle was removed, without explanation, from a campaign event for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in Exeter, N.H., yesterday despite the event having been advertised as a press conference open to media.

Breitbart News editor in chief Alex Marlow says the decision to block Boyle demonstrates hostility toward a free press.

“We are in a new era of media where large and influential news outlets treat Democrats much like the mainstream media has always treated Republicans: with a healthy skepticism,” Marlow told The Daily Signal. “The First Amendment gives us freedom of the press, but apparently Senator Shaheen believes that right only applies to publications sympathetic to her agenda. This should be troubling not only to conservatives, but to anyone who values the free flow of ideas.”