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White House Reporters Trade Puff for Access
White House Reporters Trade Puff for Access
ANALYSIS
Mar 4, 2009 1:22 PM CST

White House Reporters Trade Puff for Access

The 'beat sweetener' laudatory profile is early-term tradition

(Newser) - Readers of just about any national news outlet might’ve noticed a flood of good press about top White House aides lately. It’s not coincidence, and it’s not bias, Michael Calderone writes for Politico. Called a “beat sweetener,” such pieces aim to cultivate sources by praising...

Politicos' Loose Lips Sink Stocks

Pols still don't know their own strength on Wall St.

(Newser) - DC and New York usually keep a healthy distance. These days, though, Wall Street has no choice but to hang on every word of key politicians. For the pols themselves, Politico reports, that takes some getting used to. When Sen. Chris Dodd publicly toyed Friday with the idea of bank...

Gibbs Has the Ear of Obama
 Gibbs Has the 
 Ear of Obama 
PROFILE
Feb 22, 2009 12:33 PM CST

Gibbs Has the Ear of Obama

(Newser) - Press Secretary Robert Gibbs may be best known these days for deflecting harsh questions in the briefing room, but his advisory role in the administration goes much deeper than that, writes Michael Scherer in Time. “There isn't a single decision that the president has formed in the course of...

Reporter's Rant Provokes White House Ire

(Newser) - The White House struck back at a CNBC reporter today for loudly dissing President Obama's housing proposal on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, the Wall Street Journal reports. Rick Santelli’s 5-minute tirade, an Internet hit and apparent paean to conservatives, received a cool welcome from Press...

White House to Burris: Think It Over

(Newser) - As the chorus urging Roland Burris to resign grows larger and louder, the White House today stopped just short of joining but sent an unmistakable "veiled threat," writes Frank James in the Chicago Tribune. At this afternoon's press briefing, Robert Gibbs' words were measured yet blunt: "...

The Ignominy! No Facebook, No IM, and the Email's Down

White House tech years out of date; regulations are obsolete

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s White House staff has stepped into a time warp. The tech-savviest campaigners in history, who deployed email, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, et al, brilliantly to get their guy elected, now have to settle for an email system that goes down for long periods of time—as it was...

Journos Already Chafed Over WH Access

'Rookie mistake' keeps press from second oath-taking

(Newser) - Day 4, and already the White House and the press are squabbling? Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ maiden briefing included outbursts from reporters angry over what they saw as opaque behavior, Politico reports. The top complaint: Only four reporters, and no non-White House cameras, were allowed at President Obama’s retaking...

First White House Briefing Addresses Gitmo, Oath

Lots of questions, little actual news as Gibbs meets the press anew

(Newser) - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs met his audience for the first time, covering everything from President Obama’s oaths to the economy to torture, the Chicago Tribune reports. Gibbs faced questions about the administration’s hiring of a lobbyist, against previously stated rules—“Any standard is not perfect”...

Gibbs Will Meet the Press
Gibbs Will Meet the Press
Nov 22, 2008 4:56 PM CST

Gibbs Will Meet the Press

Obama taps aide as press secretary, names 2 others for communications

(Newser) - Barack Obama today named Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary, the Washington Times reports. Gibbs, 37, worked for 2 years as an Obama spokesman on the campaign trail and was widely expected to take the job. Well-liked by reporters, Gibbs flared up at times on the campaign and is...

Obama Stacking His Cabinet With Pit Bulls
Obama Stacking His Cabinet
With Pit Bulls
ANALYSIS
Nov 18, 2008 6:22 AM CST

Obama Stacking His Cabinet With Pit Bulls

Cool-hand Barack wants heavy-hitters, isn't afraid of a fight

(Newser) - For a man who earned himself the nickname "No-Drama Obama" during the campaign, the president-elect seems to be assembling a surprisingly high-maintenance cabinet, writes Helene Cooper in the New York Times. From Larry Summers to Rahm Emanuel to Hillary Clinton, the partners that Obama has chosen or considered have...

Meet the 'Barack Whisperer'
 Meet the 'Barack Whisperer' 
Nov 12, 2008 9:51 AM CST

Meet the 'Barack Whisperer'

Future press secretary Gibbs has uncommon bond with Obama

(Newser) - White House press secretaries can be little more than “a flunky who gets handed a piece of paper with some talking points.” But Robert Gibbs, next in line for the job, has had an uncommonly close relationship with Barack Obama since his Illinois senate campaign, the Washington Post...

Longtime Obama Aide Gibbs to Be Named Press Secretary

Strategist was frequent grinning surrogate on news shows

(Newser) - Barack Obama intends to name senior aide Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary, a top Democratic official tells Politico. Gibbs was a senior communications strategist for Obama, and distinguished himself as a cheery TV surrogate throughout the campaign. The post hasn’t officially been offered or accepted, but journalists...

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