Obama Shuts Out Old Media

Written by Pat's Papers | Thursday, 4 February 2010 10:51 AM

The New York Times says President Obama has done what most of his predecessors wanted to do but couldn’t: shut out the White House press corps. But that doesn’t mean he is avoiding the public’s eye, it means he “has fundamentally altered the way a president deals with the news media.” Though he hasn’t given a news conference in seven months, he has given far more one-on one-interviews than past presidents.

The New Yorker had a good piece about the Obama administration’s media strategy last week. You can read an abstract here

SOURCE: New York Times

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