Press

The Associated Press reports:

CBS anchor Scott Pelley said at a speech at Quinnipiac University that journalists "are getting big stories wrong, over and over again."

"Our house is on fire," said Pelley. The video of Pelley's speech is courtesy of nowthisnews.com.

"These have been a bad few months for journalism," he added. "We're getting the big stories wrong, over and over again."

The Newseum, a museum in Washington, D.C. that chronicles the news industry, plans to add two dead terrorists to its "Journalists Memorial."  The announcement to include these terrorists on the memorial, which "pays tribute to reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news," was made on the Newseum's website.

First Lady Michelle Obama will do a book signing event at a local Washington, D.C. bookstore, the White House announced today. The event, aside from a brief photo-op, will be closed to the press.

President Obama will make a rare appearance in the White House press briefing room today where he'll do something even more unusual: take questions from the press.

The White House just announced this scheduling change:

UPDATED:

An interesting moment from today's quick Oval Office press availability with President Obama:

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Okay.

Q Mr. President, why has the red line been crossed --

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You guys all have the same question?

Q Yes.

Q You know that they are --

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hold on a second, miss. One at a time.

The White House announced today that President Obama will be observing a moment of silence today for Boston bombings last week. The event is "closed press."

From the White House's schedule:

During remarks last night at the Gridiron Club at a hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., President Obama flattered the press. "[T]he truth is," Obama told the club of journalists, "our country needs you and our democracy needs you."

President Obama is meeting the press tonight in Washington, D.C. He'll be having dinner tonight at the Gridiron Club, an organization of journalists, at a downtown hotel.

But only one print pool reporter will be allowed to cover the event, which is supposed to be humorous and in good fun. And a camera crew was once again not allowed to cover the event.

Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, said this morning that the media is at least in part to blame for her husband's failure to win the last presidential election:

"I'm happy to blame the media," said Ann Romney on Fox.

Host Chris Wallace asked, "Do you think the media was in the tank for Barack Obama?"

At the White House today, Obama ended his remarks by saying, "And with that, what I want to do is clear out the press so we can take some questions:"

Josh Earnest, a White House deputy press secretary, answering a reporter's question aboard Air Force One on Friday, inadvertently painted with a broader brush than he intended.