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News organizations break ranks on ‘secret’ Obama trip

Quoted: ?I think it?s overreacting and being overly secretive,? said Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin. ?You [journalists] shouldn?t be following the wishes of the White House unless there is a clear, present danger to the president in reporting it. I?m not a security expert, but I?d have to be persuaded that simply you reporting that he?s on his way, or even has landed, would jeopardize his safety.?