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 4:21 PM, May 16, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANAccording to Politico, “Obama’s exasperation with modern journalism, like his contempt for modern politics, is rooted in his disappointment with the current state of its practitioners…”
President Obama does, however, think highly enough of the New York Times to read the whole, entire Sunday edition.
“He likes The New York Times,” a onetime Obama press adviser told POLITICO. “They are serious. He thinks the rest of you guys aren’t. He was the kind of guy who would buy the Sunday Times and spend all day reading it.”
Still, no non-Times journalist should have hurt feelings. It isn't personal; it's a matter of standards.
Administration officials say Obama doesn’t hate the media; he just holds journalists to a higher standard.
Perhaps some journalists should return the favor.
Finally, like all major political figures in these times, President Obama has found it necessary to go around the mainstream press and use other venues to get his message out. One wonders if he holds The View & the Jimmy Kimmel show to the same higher standards which he applies to the rest of the media.
5:05 PM, May 11, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERWashington Post White House reporter Amy Gardner tweeted that the "WH is serving us margaritas at the press file center in Reno."
Read more... 12:27 PM, May 4, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERPresident Obama is currently speaking at Washington-Lee High School, a luxury school just outside Washington, D.C., about the high cost of education. The president's mission is, we learn from the pool report, "to discuss the cost of college education and to build pressure on Congress to extend the low-interest student loan program that will expire on July 1 unless Congress acts."
Read more... 3:01 PM, Apr 27, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANThe men and women who go the hard yards to cover the White House belong to an organization that calls itself the White House Correspondent's Association. This outfit puts on a little soiree every year, where members can decompress after the tortures of being condescended to, hour after hour, by spokesman Jay Carney.
Read more... 1:41 PM, Apr 18, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERWhite House spokesman Jay Carney reacted to the publication of photos in the Los Angeles Times of U.S. soldiers posing with corpses in Afghanistan by saying the Obama administration is "disappointed.. [with] the decision to publish two years after the incident," according to a pool report.
Read more... 11:29 AM, Apr 15, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLThere's a profile of the late Andrew Breitbart in the New York Times "Sunday Styles" section by reporter David Carr. Carr's a talented and fair journalist, by Times standards, and the piece is mostly fair enough. But in the middle of it is this striking sentence, or rather this striking parenthesis:
Read more... 6:59 PM, Apr 4, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERLee Smith: "Who Leaked Israeli Iran Plan? Some analysts say the White House leaked details of Israel’s alleged attack plan to discourage the Jewish state. Others call the idea ‘absurd.’"
John Ellis: "Where's Romney's Alternative?"
Read more... 5:56 PM, Aug 5, 2011 • By ZACK MUNSON
John Kerry announced today on Morning Joe that he believes the media should take some responsibility for keeping the Tea Party and its ideas out of our public discourse:
Read more... 1:26 PM, May 17, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERTom Gross, a Middle East analyst based in Israel, recently gave an interview to Radio Farda, the pro-democracy branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that broadcasts in Iran. Gross discussed Iran, Israel, democracy, and the Middle East, among other topics. The interview was translated into Farsi and posted on Radio Farda's website (accessible here).
Read more... 10:09 AM, May 13, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERIs the mainstream media the Obama administration's farm team? With the hiring of the Washington Post's Shailagh Murray to be Joe Biden's new communications director, which happened after the vice president's old press guy (Jay Carney, formerly of Time magazine) was called up to the major leagues to be the president's press secretary, that's certainly the impression one gets.
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