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Rachel Maddow Meets with President-elect Obama
The Latest on Air America —
... have gone over well with the righties. Today's meeting was held at the transition headquarters, and lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes. All the participants sat a long conference table. Unlike dinner at Will's house, there weren't refreshments."It was a pretty intense back and forth about a lot of stuff," said one attendee, declining to get into specifics, since the meeting was off the record. Also, Obama's now met with four NY Times columnists in the past 24 hours, but still hasn't sat down with the White House team since being elected. (This post was updated with new ...
Obama Still Snubbing the NYT?
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Michael Calderone notes President-elect Obama has not given an interview to the New York Times since winning the election in November. A new pool report indicates it's clearly starting to bother some of the newspaper's reporters: ...
NYT Reporter Resents Obama WaPo Interview, Suggests Bias
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Barack Obama has not granted the New York Times its traditional pre-inauguration interview with the president-elect. That probably explains a somewhat bitter pool report from the Times' Helene Cooper on Obama's trip to another paper -- the Washington Post. Cooper says she is exercising "enormous restraint" by not airing her thoughts on this turn of events, but she also disses the Post building and accuses the paper's reporters of pro-Obama bias. ...
NYT Reporter Resents Obama WaPo Interview, Suggests Bias
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Barack Obama has not granted the New York Times its traditional pre-inauguration interview with the president-elect. That probably explains a somewhat bitter pool report from the Times' Helene Cooper on Obama's trip to another paper -- the Washington Post. Cooper says she is exercising "enormous restraint" by not airing her thoughts on this turn of events, but she also disses the Post building and accuses its reporters of pro-Obama bias. ...
Cheers at The Washington Post Building for Obama's Arrival for an Interview
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Calderone guesses the cattiness about the Post cheers could be sour grapes because Obama has not yet granted a pre-Inauguration interview to the New York Times. ...
The Obama Schmoozing of the Press and the Eventual Press War
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... The new romance goes only so far. He’s still avoided the “traditional” pre-inauguration interview with the New York Times, as Politico’s Michael Calderone reported yesterday. Calderone catalogs the four substantive interviews Obama has given the Times over the last 18 months or so and notes the welter of miniature press conferences Obama has given to make transition announcements. What seems to irritate the Times the most is the president-elect’s dismissal of the order of things, which ...
