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Via The Amazin' Froomkin:

Bush was originally scheduled to hold a town-hall meeting with regular German citizens today in Mainz. But when the German government couldn't guarantee friendly questions, that became a small, carefully-screened roundtable discussion with young Germans who have visited the U.S. on exchange programs.

And only part of it was even made public.
(via WaPo)

What's Bush afraid of? German radio waves are metric, so his earpiece might get jammed?

Question: Why are any of these staged events being treated as news?