Obama Press

Obama V. Press: White House Calling 'Em Out

Time | Michael Scherer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


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...

How Obama Manipulates The News Cycle

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media


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

Sam Stein

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics


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...

Obama Prime-Time News Conference Wednesday

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics


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

Sam Stein

Defiant And Serious, Obama Pleads For More Time

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics


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...

Big Questions for President Obama's Big Press Conference

Ari Melber | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics


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.

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

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics


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

Beyond Obama's Town Hall

Ari Melber | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics


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.

Sam Stein

Gibbs' First Presser As Much About Media As Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


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

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

The Hill | Walter Alarkon | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics


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 ...

Sam Stein

Obama, The Victim Of His Own Success

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics


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...

Obama Chafes As The White House Bubble Closes In

Politico | CAROL E. LEE | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics


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...

Obama Ditches Press Pool To Take Daughters To Aquatic Park

Huffington Post | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics


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, ...

Sam Stein

Obama Team Dragged Down By Press And Blagojevich

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics


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 ...

Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media


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.

Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2008 | Media


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.

Sam Stein

McCain Blows Off WSJ Reporter (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics


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

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 ...

Networks May Scale Back Convention Coverage For Obama's Speech

Politico | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics


Major television networks are considering curtailing coverage of the Democratic National Convention after Monday's announcement that Barack Obama will...

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...

McCain Schools Obama On the Modern Press

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home


Leonce Gaiter

Obama and the Democrats are beginning again to demonstrate clumsiness in the face of GOP attacks. Obama appears to be admitting to shifting positions on Iraq but he hasn't shifted positions.

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 Stifles, Stiffs National Press

Politico | Carrie Brown | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


For all the positive press Barack Obama receives, as he moves closer to clinching the Democratic nomination he is establishing himself as the candidat...

Press Battles With Obama Over Access

Politico.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


On a Saturday afternoon flight from Boise to Minneapolis, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois entered the press section of his plane and struck up a brief c...