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Obama To Barnard Graduates: Don't Listen To Media

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 05.15.2012

President Obama dropped some words of presidential wisdom on Barnard's class of 2012 on Monday. Chief among them was this nugget: don't listen to the ...

The Business of Presidential Media Politics

Steven Cohen | Posted 06.02.2012

Steven Cohen

Romney is a managerial technocrat, and Obama is a legal policy wonk: both are products of Harvard -- one law, the other business. Both of these candidates, like most Americans, are political moderates. What will the media do with these fellas?

WATCH: Obama Shoots Down Reporters Over Controversial Ruling

Posted 04.11.2012

President Obama shot down reporters pestering him for a comment on his controversial ruling on contraception during a Thursday photo op in the Oval Of...

New Study Sheds Light On Obama's Complicated Relationship With The Press

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 04.02.2012

A newly released study sheds further light on President Obama's complicated relationship with the press. The study, which was provided to The Hill ...

WATCH: Joe Walsh Says Media Will Protect Obama Because He Is Black

Posted 11.22.2011

A recent crop of bad press has not stopped U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) from making his usual media rounds this week. On Wednesday, after being named ...

Obama Scolds Media For Focusing On Birthers

Posted 06.27.2011

At his press conference on Wednesday, President Obama scolded the media for focusing on his birth certificate instead of more important issues. He ...

Obama Blames Media For His Administration's Firing Of Shirley Sherrod

Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack erred in pushing out Shirley Sherrod over allegations of racism that later proved unsubstantiat...

OBAMA VS. THE PRESS: Maureen Dowd Compares Obama To Nixon, Obama Says Media Inventing Scandals

Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

The war of words between the Obama administration and the press continued to heat up over the weekend, with a top columnist comparing President Obama ...

Obama Leaves White House Without Press, Breaking Protocol

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama quietly breached years of protocol on Saturday morning by leaving the White House without the press with him...

Chuck Todd: Obama Has 'Disdain' For Press

Posted 05.25.2011

Chuck Todd believes President Obama dislikes the media — and he believes he knows why. The NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and co-host...

Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Ari Melber

Political journalism is often imaginative, but a Newsweek article about tax cuts by a former aide to George W. Bush verges on delusion.

AP Asks If Obama Is "Obnoxiously Articulate"

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Ari Melber

Political reporters have now toggled from worrying that Obama gets "too much" media coverage to asking whether he is "too" good at communicating through the media.

Obama: News Becoming "All Blogosphere," Open To Newspaper Bailout

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Saying he is a "big newspaper junkie," President Obama expressed hope on Friday that newspapers can find their way through the financial crisis most a...

Obama's 2007 Yes-We-Can Moment in 2009

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

Dawn Teo

Like the 2007 primary campaigns, the growth of the Obama organization has gone almost without notice in the run-up to the 2009 health care battles.

Sam Stein

White House Frustrated, Confused By Palin, Limbaugh And Hannity

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Senior White House aides expressed utter bewilderment and a bit of frustration on Monday with criticism of their health care agenda from conservative ...

Media Suggest Obama Is Talking Too Much

Media Matters | Posted 05.25.2011

In covering President Obama's promotion of health care reform and his July 22 press conference, several media figures have suggested that Obama has "o...

How Obama Manipulates The News Cycle

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON It has become his common lament. Challenged about difficulties with his economic or legislative programs, President Obama complains about t...

Diane Sawyer Responds to Health Care Special Attacks (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 05.25.2011

"Good Morning America" co-anchor Diane Sawyer responded to accusations that ABC News will pander to the Obama administration in an upcoming primetime ...

Obama Critiques The Media In New Mexico Today

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

The president likes to take issue with the media here and there. "I just want to make a little commentary about the media here, if you don't mind," M...

The Omnipresent President

James Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011

James Moeller

Why does it seem as if Obama is everywhere all the time, if he's really not?

Obama Teases Reporter From India During Press Conference (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama held a conference packed with press from around the world on Thursday. He called on a reporter from The Times of India towards the end who the P...

Obama's Media Blitz: 57 Channels, One Thing On

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Rick Horowitz

Rrriinnng! Rrriinnng! Rrriin -- "Yeah, Vern's Video -- this is Vern." "Oh, good -- you're open! I wasn't sure what time you're open." "Ten minutes...

Obama Plans Meeting With Liberal Bloggers

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

At a time when his Washington honeymoon is turning into a hazing, President Barack Obama and his team are launched on a strategy to sail above the tra...

Kurtz: Media Harder On Obama This Time

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama declined to call on any reporters from the nation's top newspapers during last night's news conference but still faced far more aggres...

Obama Never Had A "Honeymoon": Media Matters (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

An analysis by the progressive watchdog group Media Matters found that "since the day after President Obama's inauguration, broadcast and cable news f...