White House Press Corps

Robert Gibbs vs. April Ryan: The Groan Heard 'Round the Briefing Room

Bryan Monroe | Posted 12.07.2009 | Media

Read More: April Ryan, White House, White House Press Briefings, Robert Gibbs, White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, White House Press Corps, Media News
Bryan Monroe

Ryan was trying to get at whether the high-profile White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers was working the event for the state dinner or there as an invited guest, or both.

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Jason Linkins

HuffPost, TPM In White House Pool: Newspaper Reporters Gripe

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Peter Baker, Pool Reporting, Media Criticism, Sam Stein, Talking Points Memo, White House Press Corps, Huffington Post, White House Press Pool, Pool Reports, Christina Bellantoni, Mike Allen, Media News

According to Politico, a "debate" has been "sparked" over the new White House pool rotation. This debate is raging, I'm sure, among the handful of people who are deeply invested in White House pool reporting.

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A Decade Of Questioning Harm And The Autism-Vaccine Connection

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Centers for Disease Control, Living With Autism, Cdc, Measles, Swine Flu Vaccine, President Obama, Thoughful House, Mercury Poisoning, Mumps, Mmr, Autism Vaccine Mercury, Thimerosal, Autism, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Liz Birt, Defeat Autism Now, H1n1, Autism Thimerosal, Swine Flu, MMR Vaccination, David Kirby, Asperger's Syndrome, Sharryl Atkisson, Mmr-Shot, Mainstream Media, Wired Magazine, Hepatitis-B-Vaccine, Cnn, Ethyl-Mercury, Mercury, H1N1 Vaccine, Amy Wallace, Rubella, Autism Vaccines, White House Press Corps, Living News
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds

For over a decade, I've relentlessly searched for answers to the connections I believe exist between my son's autism and vaccines he received.

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Jason Linkins

White House Versus Fox News: A War In Need Of An Exit Strategy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News Coverage Obama, Fox News Obama Administration, Fox News Obama, Obama Administration Fox, Fox News, Fox News White House, Media News, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, White House Press Corps, Media News

Yesterday, we took up the issue of the White House's merry little media war with the folks over at Fox News. The administration's decision to openly ...

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Jason Linkins

White House Feud With Fox Has Nothing To Do With "News"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News Coverage Obama, Fox News, Video, Fox News Obama Administration, Fox News Obama, Obama Administration Fox, Barack Obama, Fox News White House, Media News, Robert Gibbs, White House Press Corps, Media News

When people say that the White House has "declared war" on Fox News, what do they really mean? Is the White House objecting to the criticisms put for...

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Jason Linkins

Press Corps Warns White House Of Increased Adversarial Tone If They Aren't Nicer To Press Corps

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media

Read More: White House Press Briefings, Media Criticism, White House Press Corps, Media News

Hey, folks, have you checked your local listings? Big press conference tonight! You know what that means, right? Big bitching from the White House ...

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Jason Linkins

Fox News Reporter Tries, Fails To Get Revenge On Gibbs (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Dunk Tank, Fox News, Video, White-House-Luau, Associated Press, Robert Gibbs, White House Press Corps, Robert Gibbs Dunk Tank, Media News

It's Friday afternoon, so here's the marvelous story of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, getting tanked. That is, soaked in DUNK tank. As yo...

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Jason Linkins

Liveblogging Your Tuesday Afternoon Presidential Press Conference

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: White House Press Corps, Press Conference, Obama Press Conference, Barack Obama, Media News

Good morning and welcome to your Tuesday afternoon liveblog of today's White House press conference, which will feature President Barack Obama fieldin...

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Around the World With President Obama

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Paris, Washington Times, Barack Obama Foreign Trip, Bellantoni, President Obama, #Preztrip, D-Day, White House Press Corps, Nicolas Sarkozy, Politics News
Christina Bellantoni

The trip abroad with President Obama was a bit of a whirlwind. Here are photos from the trip, along with original video that offes a glimpse into what it's like traveling with Obama abroad.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: May 18, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Mass Transit, Saturday Night Live, Harvard Crimson, Plagiarism, High Speed Rail, Future of Journalism, Ray Lahood, White House Press Corps, Maureen Dowd, Transportation, Media News

Folks, if you hear just one interview with Department of Transportation Secretay Ray LaHood conducted as the secretary made his way by car to Peoria, ...

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Sam Stein

Gibbs Let Off Hook By White House Press Corps Cell Phones (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cell Phones White House, White House Press Corps, Phone Ringing, Gibbs Cell Phone, White House Reporters, Politics News

Wednesday was a major news day at the White House. The president had reversed course on his initial decision to allow the release of photos showing ha...

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Jason Linkins

Obama, Sykes, Limbaugh Slated To Be Today's Media Obsession

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Wanda Sykes, Rush Limbaugh, White House Correspondents Dinner, Barack Obama, White House Press Corps, Media News

It's a fact of life that sometimes, events unfold in such a way that you can smell a White House Press Corps obsession coming from a mile away.

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Background Briefings Irk White House Press Corps

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Press Corps, White House Press Briefings, White House Press Corps, Media News

As Washington prepares for President Barack Obama's first White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, members of the White House press corps are g...

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Jason Linkins

Press Corps Standing For Obama And Not Bush Video Debunked

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Mark Knoller, Video, White House, Jake Tapper, George W. Bush, White House Protocol, White House Press Briefings, Barack Obama, White House Press Corps, Media News

A YouTube clip purporting to demonstrate -- through press room etiquette -- that the White House Press Corps has a greater level of fundamental respec...

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100 News Cycles Later

John McQuaid | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, White House Press Corps, Media, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, Media News
John McQuaid

Obama's ambitions depend on his ability to nudge the news cycle away from the cable network- and Drudge-driven obsession with transient panics and cultural outrages. He's been partially successful so far.

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Jason Linkins

White House Press Corps Ask Same Swine Flu Question Seven Times (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Swine Flu, Felipe Solis Olguin Swine Flu, Barack Obama, Mexico Swine Flu, Obama, White House Press Corps, Felipe Solis Olguin, Felipe Solis Olguin Swine Flu Obama, Media News

When White House reporters get the scent of a non-story in their nostrils, they pursue it with a maniacal zeal. And they won't just sit there and take "No" for an answer.

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The White House Press Corps is the Problem

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Ana Marie Cox, White House Press Corps, Media News
Eric Boehlert

If WH reporters are wasting their time writing too much about nonsense like pocket squares and puppies and wardrobes and on and on, than they are, by definition, bad at their job.

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Why We Should Get Rid Of The White House Press Corps: Ana Marie Cox

Washington Post | Ana Marie Cox | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Get Rid of White House Press Corps, White House Press Corps, White House, White House Reporters, Media News

Intense interest in the Obama administration has swelled the ranks of the White House press corps. Outlets such as Politico have thrown a basketball t...

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White House Press Corps Stranded In Istanbul

Planet Washington | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media

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The White House press corps is stranded in Istanbul. Originally scheduled to depart for home soon after President Obama and Air Force One took off Tu...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 25, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Sex Toys, Tolkien, Obama Press Conference, Media Criticism, Morning Joe, The View, Fred Malek, Michelle Bachmann, Barack Obama, Cnbc, Cnn, Video, Richard Nixon, Barbara Walters, Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ed Henry, Vibrators, White House Press Corps, Mika Brzezinski, Tolkien Reading Day, Politics News

Today is March 25, which, as you know, is the day on which the One Ring was destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom, resulting in the defeat of Sauron an...

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Laughing with Obama, Laughing at McCain

Stu Kreisman | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Bob Newhart, John McCain, Chip Reid, John King, Pundits, Seinfeld, Katie Couric, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, President Obama, David Gregory, Lucille Ball, White House Press Corps, Media News
Stu Kreisman

With the national media's insistence of dwelling on the trivial (Who's twittering who, Obama's NCAA brackets, Dick Cheney's opinions about anything) a...

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Obama To Reporters: "Take Whacks" At Gibbs

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Media, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, White House Press Corps, Media News

As press were filing out of the Oval Office this afternoon -- after a briefing photo op with President Obama and Paul Volcker -- Mr. Obama asked, "How...

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Jason Linkins

Meghan McCain: Press Lets Obama Get Away With Everything

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meghan McCain, Video, Chip Reid, White House Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary, Wall Street Journal. Robert Gibbs, Narcolepsy, White House Press Corps, Politics News

Earlier today, the Columbia Journalism Review reported on how their bloggiest of alumni, Meghan McCain, went onto the Hannity show and straight up cal...

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Jason Linkins

Limbaugh: Jake Tapper Not Obama's "Butt Boy" (AUDIO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ruch Limbaugh, Ed Henry Butt Boy, Media Matters, Butt Boy, Limbaugh Butt Boy, Jake Tapper, Ed Henry, White House Press Corps, Politics News

Look who's honoring Jake Tapper now! Rush Limbaugh, whose Octomom-like ubiquity is ensured some significant extension thanks to his use of the term "...

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Scott McClellan: White House Press Briefing Is Obsolete

Think Progress | Matt Yglesias | Posted 03.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Robert Gibbs, White House, Scott Mcclellan, White House Media, White House Press Briefing, White House Press Corps, White House Press Secretary, Media News

Asked by TNR to offer some advice to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, former Press Secretary Scott McClellan makes the provocative suggestion...

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