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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ari Melber | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
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.
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...
Ari Melber | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home
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.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home
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.
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...
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...
CQ Politics | Keith Koffler | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics