Eleanor Clift Quotes
If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.
Eleanor Clift, Journalist, C-SPAN, September 2, 1999
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Commenting on media criticism of her:
The George W. Bush administration was a very ideological one as opposed to pragmatic. They would not tolerate public officials who would say anything that might undermine an administrative ideological position. In particular, they did not want government scientists releasing any data or information that was not totally consistent with their ideology and program. They introduced a new policy within the government whereby no one could talk to a reporter or make a public speech or deliver a professional paper without first getting approval of administration “public affairs” agents first. Government scientists and other officials had never before been censored like this. Important scientific studies were not made public where they might not support the administration ideological positions. This is how the NASA public affairs official explained his role.
Eleanor Clift is an American political reporter, television pundit, and author. She is a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for The Daily Beast. She is best known as a regular panelist on the The McLaughlin Group. Clift is a board member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).
