Obama Media

Fox News Cut Out From Questions At Obama's First Press Conference

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.09.2008 | Media


President-Elect Barack Obama held his first press conference yesterday, one that focused mainly on the current economic crisis. One detail that flew ...

Obama Asks Media To Back Off While With Daughter On Halloween: "All Right Guys, That's Enough"

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


CHICAGO — Democrat Barack Obama got annoyed with the media Friday as he tried to walk down a Chicago street with his 7-year-old daughter, Sasha,...

Sam Stein

Plouffe Memo: "We Will Respond With Speed And Ferocity"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics


Obama campaign manager David Plouffe sent a memo to reporters early Friday morning, acknowledging the tightness of the presidential race and committin...

The Corporate Media Experiment: Why Isn't Senator Obama 'One of Us'?

Bob Cesca | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics


Bob Cesca

McCain couldn't possibly be an elitist and out of touch with most Americans because it doesn't fit the media narrative. He's just not.

Study: Networks Much Tougher On Obama Than McCain

LA Times | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics


Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week. Barack Obama, they said, was getting a free ride from those insuffera...

End Of The Affair: Press Breaks Up With Obama

TNR | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics


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 ...

"Banned From Plane?" You Complain, We Explain

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media


Yesterday I posted an item called "Obama's Revenge: New Yorker Reporter Banned From Press Plane For Overseas Trip." It was based on this excerpt from ...

Obama's Revenge: New Yorker Reporter Excluded From Press Plane For Overseas Trip

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media


Whatever one thinks of the New Yorker cover, a robust press can't operate under threat of reprisal for unwelcome items.

Paul Krugman: Obama WILL Win -- and Then Media Will Crucify Him

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

Krugman predicte that "within three months of taking office, no, less than three months" the media would be out to get Obama, as much as they had at the high point of anti-Bill Clinton bashing.

African-American TV Channel Won't Cover GOP Convention

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics


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

Obama: Media Response To Iraq Remarks Overblown

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics


ST. LOUIS — Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking S...

"Flag City" Just Another Media Myth About Obama

Paul Hogarth | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


Paul Hogarth

The fact that some voters in "Flag City" think that Obama is a Muslim doesn't mean he will lose Ohio -- and it certainly doesn't belong on the front page of the Washington Post.

WaPo Reporter Apologizes For Calling Obama "Much More White Than Black"

Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


In an online chat last week, Washington Post reporter Jonathan Weisman said of Obama: He really did not become immersed in black American culture u...

Obama Plans National Push On Ads And Turnout

New York Times | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics


Senator Barack Obama is drawing up plans for extensive advertising and voter-turnout drives across the nation, hoping to capitalize on his expected fu...

The Pro-Obama Case Against MSNBC's Pro-Obama Coverage

TNR | Isaac Chotiner | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics


Two weeks ago, on the night of Barack Obama's big win and narrow loss in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, respectively, I turned my televisio...

Sam Stein

Clinton-Backing Senator Bemoans Media's Scandal Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics


Senator Robert Menendez, a key surrogate for Hillary Clinton, said on Thursday that it was time for the media to move on from the scandal and conflict...

To Breathe Again The Air Of Inevitability

Robert Silvers | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home


Robert Silvers

Obama must take back his campaign with a serious discussion about serious issues. He should talk about nothing else until the media cries "uncle" and is forced to start writing about substance.

Press Descend On Obama Following Wright Controversy

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

In the last few days, the weary and distracted candidate Obama has been more forceful and passionate. Confronting his displeasure with Rev. Wright seems to have lit a fire under the Barack ass.

Obama Coverage Last Week More Than Any Candidate This Year

NYT's The Caucus | Katherine Seelye | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


If Senator Hillary Clinton wins today in Ohio and Texas, will analysts look back and point to the Feb. 23 edition of "Saturday Night Live" as a cruci...

Media Expert Decries Campaign Coverage

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


DALLAS — The founder of a prestigious institute on media and politics added his voice Saturday to the chorus of complaint over perceived press b...

Reporters Give Obama A Pillow

Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama came to the press part of the plane for the first time since the airing of the now infamous "Saturday Night Live" last weekend featuring ...

Kurtz: Media's Got A (Huge) Crush On Obama

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


When reporters filed onto Barack Obama's press plane after his acrimonious debate with Hillary Rodham Clinton last week, one thing was noticeably miss...

NYT: Clinton Opens Up To Press, Obama Becomes "Cautious, Guarded"

NY Times | MARK LEIBOVICH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has become the open and accessible candidate -- sharing beers with reporters, taking endless questions from voters at c...