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Bill Bennett: Conservative Idea That Press In Love With Obama Disproven (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.25.2009 | Media

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Conservative radio host and CNN contributor Bill Bennett shot down conservatives who claim the press is in love with President Obama during Tuesday ni...

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Kurtz: Media Harder On Obama This Time

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 04.24.2009 | Media

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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...

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Defiant And Serious, Obama Pleads For More Time

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

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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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Bobby Jindal Speaks At Fundraiser On Same Night As Obama's Prime Time Press Conference

AP/CNN | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal again found himself carrying the Republican mantle opposite a primetime appearance from President Barac...

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Obama 'Overexposed': The Media's New New Obsession

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.24.2009 | Media

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Doesn't Obama realize that he's risking overexposure, with all the explaining and answering questions and being a public figure? How dare he?

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Big Questions for President Obama's Big Press Conference

Ari Melber | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

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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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Henrietta Hughes Given Home After Telling Obama She Was Homeless (VIDEO)

Katharine Zaleski | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

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UPDATE 2/12: Henrietta Hughes and Chene Thompson talk about the new house Hughes is living in: Henrietta Hughes appeared on CNN's American Morning T...

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TIME: The HuffPo Gets To Question Obama -- And Makes History

TIME | Belinda Luscombe | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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Change in Washington comes in increments, and a door was cracked open on Feb. 9 when, in the first official press conference of the Obama Administrati...

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Can't Get There from Here

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration has made its first serious misstep. No, it wasn't the wooing of ingrate Republicans, or the dining with clueless reactionary pundits. It is much more significant.

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Scritti Politti: February 10, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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Ah, journalism! How are we going to save it? Gently suggest they produce a better product? HAY-YELLS NO! As of this moment, I'm backing the Alex B...

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Obama and the Press Play Wiffle Ball While Americans Strike Out?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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One of the things we were promised by this president was straight talk, express and local. Obama's not living up to that promise or doing public service by fudging in the name of optimism.

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Henrietta Hughes: Obama Asked For Help At Town Hall (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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President Obama went to Fort Myers, Florida Tuesday to highlight the desperate need for an economic recovery package. Unemployment in the area is up t...

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Fleischer: Bush Didn't Call On 'Dot Coms And Other Oddballs'

ThinkProgress | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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After President Obama's first prime time press conference last night, Bill O'Reilly asked former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer for his reaction. ...

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The Voice Of American Pragmatism

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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Decades of Reagan, Bush and now Limbaugh Republicanism have created such a toxic environment for American pragmatism that anyone who dared to step in that direction has been ridiculed and silenced. That ended last night.

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Matthews Back To Praising Obama's Communication Skills (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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MSNBC's Chris Matthews was full of compliments after last night's Obama presser, most notably for "our breed" -- the press. The media, he said, "looke...

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Why Did Obama Diss Helen Thomas?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

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Why did Obama refuse to answer Helen Thomas' question alluding to Israeli nuclear weapons? Simple. Because if he did, the media would have reported it as a gaffe.

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Obama Reviewing Ban On Photos Of Flag-Draped Coffins

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review Tuesday of a Pentagon policy banning media from taking pictures of flag-draped coffins of military dea...

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Black Press Complains: Prime Seating, But No Question At Obama Press Conference: 'We Were Window Dressing'

Washington Times | Joseph Curl | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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After the first black president completed his first prime-time press conference, the black press was red hot. "We were window dressing," said Hazel E...

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Obama's Press Conference Answers Three Formal Grade-Levels Higher Than Bush's First

Mark Nickolas | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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I copied each transcript into separate Word documents, deleted the intros and all reporter questions, leaving just the unscripted answers to all questions. Then I ran Word's readability tool.

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Obama Calls on Huffington Post's Sam Stein

Linda Bergthold | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media

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One of the handful of reporters who were called upon to ask a question at President Obama's first press conference was Sam Stein of the Huffington Post.

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Obama's Impressive Recovery

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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After eight years of a president who was barely able to respond to impromptu questions, it was simply refreshing to have a leader who can deliver forthright, direct responses.

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Obama News Conference (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Scroll down for video... Read Obama's opening remarks here President Barack Obama, pressuring lawmakers to urgently approve a massive economic recove...

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Gibbs: Obama Wouldn't Do Anything Different On Stimulus

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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The House of Representatives successfully passed a stimulus package last night, but it was viewed as a rebuke to the president that not a single Repub...

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Gibbs' First Presser As Much About Media As Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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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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Krugman, Reich, Take Obama Up On Stimulus Advice

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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Last week, Barack Obama let it be known that when it came to formulating a stimulus bill, all ideas were welcome -- whether they came from the bowels ...

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