https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/10/05/nyt-reporter-obama-admin-most-closed-control-freak-administration-ive-ever-covered/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usFri, 24 Apr 2026 09:07:02 -0400<![CDATA[Remember when the media rushed to talk about transparency in the Barack Obama &#8220;Hope and Change&#8221; era? Good times, good times.  Leonard Downie, who once worked as the executive editor of the Washington Post and wrote a novel about Washington corruption and the Iraq War, finds a bigger and non-fictional problem in the successor to George W. Bush.  Downie gives the Post a preview of his report from the Committee to Protect Journalists which outlines the Obama war on reporters and their sources:]]>Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:01:40 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/10/05/nyt-reporter-obama-admin-most-closed-control-freak-administration-ive-ever-covered-n210154