Time’s White House correspondent (and onetime CJR employee), Michael Scherer,
The Saudi government is permitting journalists accompanying President Obama entry into the country without a visa or the usual customs procedures. While in Saudi Arabia, therefore, journalists are expressly prohibited from leaving the hotel or engaging in any journalistic activities outside of coverage of the POTUS visit. Those who do so risk arrest and detention by Saudi authorities.
In case anyone in the White House press corps was considering any out-of-hotel reporting in Riyadh.
UPDATE: Can’t use the above any longer as an excuse to lounge at the hotel bar; new instructions are that reporters can “go wherever and cover whatever they wish.”
Continental Airlines has made the papers, but this time it isn't for cheap flights. Nine pilots have been sued for trying to run a pension scam on Continental Airlines; 8 of the pilots were recently employed by them. (Some resigned, but you can guess why they were fired.) The pilots, in lieu of getting a money loan, tried to exploit a loophole in which employees could get early pension benefits if they were in the middle of a divorce. They filed, allegedly, for divorces from their spouses in order to get the early pension benefits. Needless to say, this didn't fly. They will need low cost loans now, butContinental Airlines can probably afford better lawyers.Read more click v
#1 Posted by tyf, CJR on Tue 2 Jun 2009 at 05:12 AM
Of course...if there are any female journalists, then I guess they won't be able to drive. Or do much of anything.
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#2 Posted by Ed Harris, CJR on Sat 6 Jun 2009 at 12:59 AM