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Mitt Romney Is Playing the Mainstream Media Like a Fiddle -- and the Problem Is That They Are Actually Dancing to the Music

Dee Evans | Posted 05.17.2012

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Dee Evans

To the media I ask this question: Name one presidential candidate in recent history who had not sat down for any Sunday talk shows or non-Fox related cable news shows less than six months out from a presidential election? Name me one!

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WHCD: A Salute to the Centurions

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.29.2012

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Cenk Uygur

It's one thing to have the White House Correspondents' Dinner be the one time of the year where the watchdogs let down their guard and have civil, even friendly, conversations with the people they cover. I would enjoy that. But the over-chumminess of the Dinner is not the exception, it's now the rule.

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

Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 ...

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Chuck Todd: Obama Has 'Disdain' For Press

Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Obama Answering Lots Of Questions, But Not From Press

The New York Times | PETER BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the last two weeks, President Obama has taken questions from unemployed workers in Ohio, students in Florida and a cancer survivor in New Hampshi...

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Obama Hasn't Held Press Conference In Four Months

CQ Politics | Keith Koffler | Posted 05.25.2011

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For months, President Obama was like an ATM for the media, dispensing answers to questions with what seemed like just the push of a button. The presi...

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Obama V. Press: White House Calling 'Em Out

Time | Michael Scherer | Posted 05.25.2011

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There was never a single moment when White House staff decided the major media outlets were falling down on the job. There were instead several such m...

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How Obama Manipulates The News Cycle

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Sam Stein

Obama Press Briefing Visit: Talks Souter, Supreme Court Pick (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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With his chief counsel and chief of staff by his side, Barack Obama made a surprise visit to the White House press briefing room on Friday, officially...

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Obama Prime-Time News Conference Wednesday

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will hold his third prime-time news conference on Wednesday, his 100th day in office. Obama will answer que...

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Sam Stein

Defiant And Serious, Obama Pleads For More Time

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama's second press conference in as many months in office was marked by intense seriousness, a touch of political defiance, and an overwhe...

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Big Questions for President Obama's Big Press Conference

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Melber

Tuesday, Obama is holding the second prime time press conference of his first 100 days. Here are just a few questions for the big event.

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

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Beyond Obama's Town Hall

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Melber

Local events used to be the only way for a president to hear directly from citizens, but network technology has opened up our civic possibilities. It's past time we used these tools to open up the Presidency.

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Sam Stein

Gibbs' First Presser As Much About Media As Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Gibbs' first briefing as White House press secretary offered almost as much insight into the media as the newly installed administration. Wel...

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Obama: I Read My Bad Press, Not My Good Press

The Hill | Walter Alarkon | Posted 05.25.2011

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President-elect Obama said he often reads bad press about himself and avoids the good press so that he can stay outside the information "bubble." "I ...

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Sam Stein

Obama, The Victim Of His Own Success

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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With three weeks to go before his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama has been beset by questions over the Rod Blagojevich scandal as well as c...

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Obama Chafes As The White House Bubble Closes In

Politico | CAROL E. LEE | Posted 05.25.2011

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The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone - it's be...

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Obama Ditches Press Pool To Take Daughters To Aquatic Park

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATES: More from the Obama press pool: Dec. 26, 2008 Waimanalo, Hawaii Pool Report No. 5 President-elect Barack Obama arrived at Sea Life Park, ...

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Sam Stein

Obama Team Dragged Down By Press And Blagojevich

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eight days after Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on charges of attempting to sell Illinois' vacant Senate seat, much of the media is still consumed ...

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Jason Linkins

Campbell Brown: Obama's 'This Is Fun For The Press' Remark Wrong

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized Obama for glibly dismissing questions on the way his relationship with Sen. Clinton shifted from critical to collaborative as the press "having fun" slicing and dicing old campaign rhetoric.

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Jason Linkins

Reporter Complains About Obama Plane As World's Tiniest Violins Play Piteous Strains

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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No one's opened up a new frontier of journalistic atrabiliousness as CBS' News Dean Reynolds, who took to CBS's "From The Road" blog to throw a pity party, celebrating his own diva-ish distemper.

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African-American TV Channel Won't Cover GOP Convention

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — TV One, the cable network aimed at African-American viewers, will cover Barack Obama's nominating convention but is ignoring John McC...

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Sam Stein

McCain Blows Off WSJ Reporter (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday the Arizona Republican...

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End Of The Affair: Press Breaks Up With Obama

TNR | Posted 05.25.2011

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Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office. The ...

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