That image became the day's takeaway, at least in the national media: proof, supposedly, of Clinton's running scared from the ''tough questions,'' thwarting press freedom on this day of our independence.
While there have been numerous media-loathing politicians over the years, no possible candidate of Ms. Palin's wattage has so blatantly blown off (or actively thwarted) the trailing press corps to the degree that she did.
"In effect, all of these developments work to thwart the ability of the press to do a good job of bringing vital information to the American public," said Paul K. McMasters, an ombudsman of the First Amendment Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that tracks such cases.
Ingraham basically suggests that it's the press' job to thwart the Obama aganda, but there's no real worry here if you are a fan of agenda-thwarting, because the GOP is going to do that.
Maier claims that Cramer twice attempted to legally thwart the book from going to press.
Metternich argues to Count Stadion that, in order to effectively thwart revolutionary activity, the government must censor the press (1808).
The Institutional Revolutionary Party, which until last year had enjoyed a monopoly on power for decades, had little incentive to be accountable to the public, to listen to scientists or to press for changes, especially ones that could thwart economic development.
But it should be that we need thorough, unimpeded investigations by the F.B.I., Congress, and the press — the ones that Trump has tried to thwart at every turn — to answer Gowdy's question.
As if election night didn't already look like a rerun of 1992, Lord Kinnock took to the airwaves to accuse the right-wing press of thwarting Labour through a sustained campaign of abuse aimed at Ed Miliband.
Too often, super-injunctions are a tool used to thwart this, protecting the rich and powerful by enabling them to gag the press".
