THE EMAIL LISTS?

The email controversy, with respect to the Obama White House, continues to make news. It has now been dubbed other names, including, "The Axelrod emails", connecting one of the most senior officials in the administration in the fray. The reason being that the so called unsolicited emails went directly from his office. Thus keeping that particular piece of news on the front pages of most news print establishments in the country.

The WH kept pointing at Third-party groups sending petitions to its official administration website, and that the emails were gleaned from there. Though, email distribution lists could be obtained from all sources, but that was how they were collected, according to a spokesperson.

That single reason should have ended the matter; although some people who received the emails might continue to discuss how their email addresses went into becoming part of other peoples' distribution lists or databases, but it should not be front page news, unless those pushing for more answers or clarification had some other idea in mind; that, perhaps, the WH was hiding something, which would not be true at all.

Major Garrett and his team from FOX News have stressed the need for more information on the issue, and it (team) continued to interview citizenry, who thought their privacy had been invaded.

If so, then where should the matter go from here? To the courts?

Lists were being formulated left, right and center, for all kinds of purposes; and there was no doubt that FOX News had its own distribution list or database from which it used periodically, if not repeatedly and extensively, to contact the public on intrinsic matters; and the WH was doing the same on one such as health care reform.

The WH has been engaged in reaching out to the public and presenting its case; the same general public that all news organizations tried to reach "by all means necessary"; which they had every right to do.

Well, so did the WH. It had every right to do so too. Period.

So, what was all the fuss about? If the people who were complaining did not want to be informed of current affairs, there was a thin line under almost every email that reached them, which said (paraphrased) that if a person or persons wanted to unsubscribe to an email and/or its content, they could and should click that link of a thin line.

Those people should reach for that thin line; and FOX News should find something better to report on.