{"id":9536,"date":"2012-09-05T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T23:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9536"},"modified":"2012-09-05T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T23:09:06","slug":"local-reporter-asks-obama-about-targeted-assassination-of-us-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9536","title":{"rendered":"Local Reporter Asks Obama About Targeted Assassination of U.S. Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d say I was stunned to see a local TV news reporter — any<\/i> TV news reporter, frankly — asking the President directly about his targeted assassinations of U.S. citizens, except that the reporter was Cincinnati Fox 19’s Ben Swann.<\/p>\n

Swann’s reporting was key last February<\/a>, in covering the Maine GOP’s attempt to steal the state’s caucuses<\/a> for Mitt Romney, while largely everyone else in the corporate mainstream media had dutifully moved on to whatever the “next state” was at the time.<\/p>\n

As Glenn Greenwald tweeted<\/a>, here we find a “local anchor doing real journalism”. Imagine that. Someone get this guy a network gig, please!<\/p>\n

Here’s his questions to President Obama last night<\/a> on the U.S. drone strikes which targeted U.S. citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and his teenage son in Yemen, both without any form of due process…<\/p>\n