Posted on 01/22/2009 6:57:43 AM PST by bonnieblue4me
The whitehouse.gov website has changed once again! This time, the Pool Report link is gone. I guess they don't like what the pool has to report, so the animals won't be allowed to read it. Transparency is such a wonderful thing!
I hate what they’ve done with the site. It’s just a blog now. It looks lame and boring. Before it looked official and special and had a certain air, if a website can have an air about it.
I never checked the website during the Bush years, so I have no base of comparison. But were the wives of the president and VP previously listed as part of the administration, as they are now?
What was the pool report?
I was wondering the same.
The White House pool report grew out of a simple problem of supply and demand. Every newspaper, magazine, radio station, and TV channel wants to cover the president; but the White House only allows so many reporters in. So the reporters take turns in the pool and file notes to all of their colleagues, which any of them can use.
Print, radio, and TV have distinct pools, and each medium has its own practices; but the print pool for newspapers and magazines is the one people most often discuss.
Hope this explains the process.
It does. Thanks.
It’s obvious that it worked for BHO’s campaign (see here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1640402,00.html) As late as July of 08, McCain had no technolgy campaign plan. Any wonder why he lost?
Anyways, by using the web and the new (now old) technology and capabilites of new media and incorporating them into the administration more people are going to know what he thinks and wants.
IMHO keeping some “special air” about the WH website to preserve some sort of decorum defeats the purpose of having the website.
Pool report was a link to the report of the White House pool reporters.
Thanks - so it’s still out there, just no link from the White House web site?
There’s no reason you can’t have functionality and a pleasing design.
And, this is a different topic from McCain and his lack of foresight regards leveraging technology for his campaign.
Obama took a very nice website that was both aesthetically pleasing and informative and turned it into a boring blog.
How’s the quote go? Can go for both of us?
“I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like.”
Wow! Very unimaginative and boring.
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