White House Press Corps

Jason Linkins

Obama Press Meet-And-Greet Interrupted By Actual Question

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media


Obama's visit to the White House Press Corps yesterday was going according to plan, for about three minutes, until a Politico reporter suddenly did some journalism. From there, total buzzkill.

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...

Press: Pool Reports Can't Go On White House Website

Washington Post | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


The new White House web site is expected to display many cool things once it's fully operational (which, currently, it is not). But pool reports -- t...

The Idiotic Start To Chuck Todd's Stint As NBC's Chief White House Correspondent (UPDATED)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 02.22.2009 | Media


Mark Nickolas

Come on, Chuck. What a tone-deaf way to start your White House stint -- just awful and hopefully not a sign of things to come.

Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: January 21, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media


The Obama White House is planning on putting the presidential pool reports online, leaving me to wonder how the web will possibly cope with having something so indefatigably sexy on it.

Jason Linkins

Dana Perino Lampoons Press Corps In Final Briefing (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.16.2009 | Media


Dana Perino celebrated the end of her tenure by treating the assembled White House Press Corps to her comedic stylings, as presented in the form of a ...

One Last Lie

Libby Mitchell | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics


Libby Mitchell

My young niece and nephew are becoming liars. They don't do it mean spiritedly, most of the time they are just trying to make a story better, or win a...

Jason Linkins

NBC Names Chuck Todd Chief White House Correspondent

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media


If you count yourself among the many aggrieved fans of Chuck Todd who've wept over him not getting the Meet The Press job, take heart! Todd will be r...

Obama's Press Policy: Is Muckraking the New Shoe-Throwing?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics


Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Hey, keep your shoes on! Just because Obama's in office, that doesn't mean journalism is going to be okay! Is the media business model still collapsin...

Bush Ducks Flying Shoes -- Any Footwear for Donald Rumsfeld?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

There are not enough shoes in the world to express adequately the outrages the world has endured from the Bush administration over the past eight years.

Helen Thomas Returns To White House To Harass Obama (VIDEO)

Mediabistro | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media


via Mediabistro: Our thanks to our sister blog FishbowlDC for this. Helen Thomas has sat in the White House Press Corp for seven presidents. Preside...

Scott McClellan And The Opacity Agenda

Jay Rosen | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home


Jay Rosen

McClellan as White House spokesman lacked experience, talent, charm, agility, depth. But Bush and Cheney saw these defects as an advantage. They actually wanted the executive branch to become more opaque, and he was the perfect man for the job.

Jason Linkins

Jeff Gannon, Pretend White House Correspondent, Weighs In On McClellan, So...There's That

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics


Jeff Gannon, the pretend White House correspondent with a pretend name whose chief contribution to American politics was finding a point of intersecti...

Jason Linkins

Tony Snow, CNN Commentator: A (Long) Litany Of Past Sins

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics


Tony Snow has begun his new gig at CNN, and ancient declaimer of non-sequitirs Larry King's heart is so a-flutter that you'd think CNN had just hired a lissome blond, 50 years his junior.

Jason Linkins

White House On Iraq: 'We've Thrown Out The Rose-Colored Glasses'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics


Earlier today, Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto made a startling admission, suggesting that, at some point in the past, the White House regarded the...

Jason Linkins

Dana Perino, The Gift That Keeps On Giving: A Neverending Surge

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics


Years after missions were declared to have been accomplished in Iraq, it's still difficult to get a straight answer out of the Bush administration as ...

Reporters Find Lame Duck White House Boring

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


When White House press secretary Dana Perino appeared on "The Daily Show" last week, host Jon Stewart asked how she got the day off: "Did they not nee...

Jason Linkins

The Gift That Keeps On Giving: We Have Always Had No Comment About Eurasia

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


To the surprise of nobody, the New York Times this morning reported that, as it turns out, four White House officials - Harriet Miers, John Bellinger,...

Jason Linkins

The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Memories of Frenemies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"Western" feminist organizations are frequently criticized for keeping mum on the issue of women's rights in Islamic countries. "How hypocritical of ...

My Favorite Mistake: Helen Thomas Talks About The Mistakes She Could Never Make

Seema Kalia | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Seema Kalia

"My Favorite Mistake" is a new biweekly series in which writer Seema Kalia interviews various luminaries about the one mistake that taught them the mo...

The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Dana Perino Reveals The Awesome Benefits Of Global Warming

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


While White House Press Secretary Dana Perino may lack the showstopping musical theatre skills of her doppelganger, Kristin Chenoweth, she nevertheles...

O'Reilly: WH Press Corps Needs To Be "Wiped Out"

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


In an interview with Bill O'Reilly last night, former White House press secretary Tony Snow said that his future career plans may include writing a bo...