slate.com - 1/16/2009
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Barack Obama. Click image to expand. Barack Obama Nothing throws the Washington press corps into a bigger tizzy than being ignored. Being dissed is something the press corps can live with—in fact, they love being dissed. In the early 1970s, for example, every Washington journalist with a spot on ...
mediamatters.org - 1/19/2009
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mediamatters.org —
Did you hear that "some are saying" Barack
Obama's inauguration will cost "$160 million," which is $100...
million more than George W. Bush's last swearing-in? That's the tale the crew at Fox & Friends was telling on January 15. "Why does the ...
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Boehlert: The media myth about the cost of Obama's ...
politico.com - 1/15/2009
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politico.com —
Obama arrived at the Washington Post headquarters today,
as covered in priceless pool report by the New...
York Times Helene Cooper. After three and a half hours at his transition office, PEOTUS obama took another 6 minute ride through ...
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Obama at the Washington Post
newsbusters.org - 1/22/2009
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newsbusters.org —
I doubt it would surprise anyone here that
the media would go to their best lengths to...
over-estimate the number of people at Obama's inauguration. But just how far out on a limb would they go to portray his mandate? Try at least a million people. ...
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Obama's Million Ghost March
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Courting the press
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Slate's Jack Shafer explores how the Obama team's new press strategy of "courtship" -- rather than keeping media at arms length -- might prove beneficial. ...
The Obama Schmoozing of the Press and the Eventual Press War
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Jack Shafer has it just about right.
So having won the election without wooing the press, what is Obama’s new press strategy?
Courtship! On Tuesday night, Obama dined at George F. Will’s house with name-brand conservatives Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, William Kristol, Paul Gigot, Peggy Noonan, Michael Barone, and Larry Kudlow. The liberal commentariat got their audience the next day, when Obama met with Eugene Robinson, Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, E.J. Dionne, and others at his transition headquarters. As I write, ...
JACK SHAFER on Obama’s new press strategy.
Instapundit —
JACK SHAFER on Obama’s new press strategy.
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After his inauguration, if President Barack Obama needs real-time intelligence on crises around the world, he is likely to do it in the Situation Room, the ultra-secure conference room in the White House. It's a place this new president may be seeing ...
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