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March 24, 2009
Politico: Obama seeks filter-free news
Topics: Political News and commentariesThe Politico title is misleading; it should read, "Obama seeks critique-free press," since the Obama administration has embarked on a strategy to go above the traditional White House press corps by reaching out to liberal commentators, local reporters and ethnic media that team Obama deems friendly to their causes. In other words, Team Obama doesn't want to be subjected to the scrutiny of the WH press corps as all previous presidents have done:
The highest-profile moments in the new approach have been well-noted, such as the president giving an interview to progressive radio host Ed Schultz and Obama calling on a reporter from the liberal-leaning Huffington Post at his first news conference.Clearly, the Obama administration prefers media they believe to be in the Obama tank and willing to simply parrot the administration's spin rather than reality-based news sources that seek to get at the truth behind what the administration wants them to believe and report. Doesn't such a move by Team Obama call into question the trustworthiness of the administration as one that can't stand-up to scrutiny or get passed the smell test?But those moves are only part of a much larger strategy aimed at communicating directly with audiences the White House believes are more sympathetic to the president's agenda -- and one in which much of the work is being done by Obama's top advisers.
Posted by Hyscience at March 24, 2009 8:58 AM
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