{"id":9318,"date":"2009-04-01T06:26:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2009-04-01T06:26:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T11:26:42","slug":"pentagon-ban-on-press-at-dover-ends-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9318","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: Ban on Press at Dover ends Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here comes that Hope and Change and the Obama Administration making friends with veterans, the troops and their families (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=61725\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first time in nearly 20 years, members of the news media will be allowed starting Monday to cover the solemn arrivals of American flag-draped coffins holding the remains of U.S. troops at Dover Air Force Base, Del.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued an instruction last week to reverse the two decadeslong ban on media coverage, The Associated Press reported Tuesday, noting that a written memo is expected later this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope that Gates and his staff have planned for the elephant parade and the clown car antics of the media when they get to the Air Force Base. Remember that when you let them in, you&#8217;re a slave to their self-important behavior &#8211; having been shoved aside myself a few times by anxious media types more worried about getting the picture than any semblance of decorum.<\/p>\n<p>What is the Pentagon going to do the first time a young spouse of a fallen service member finds out about the death of their loved one from some media clod calling them to get permission to snap pictures of the body coming off the aircraft in Dover? <\/p>\n<p>Gates BOFOs and military families are burdened with the responsibility of a decision that the  Pentagon gracefully accepted years ago. Now the buck stops over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here comes that Hope and Change and the Obama Administration making friends with veterans, the troops &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon: Ban on Press at Dover ends Monday\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9318\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon: Ban on Press at Dover ends Monday<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liberals-suck","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}