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When the White House hates your tweet
Yahoo News ^ | May 1, 2014 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 05/01/2014 5:31:33 AM PDT by McGruff

For the Obama White House, tweets from reporters are a kind of early warning system. It’s up to Jessica Allen, 24, to sound the alarm.

Allen, whose official title is “media monitor,” tracks journalists’ tweets and flags them in mass emails that land in the in-boxes of more than 80 Obama aides, including chief of staff Denis McDonough, White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler, press secretary Jay Carney and senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer.

The result? Reporters who regularly cover Obama have become familiar with seemingly out-of-the-blue emails or telephone calls from officials taking issue with their tweets — often thoughtfully and constructively, sometimes with obscenity-laced yelps of outrage.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carney; journalists; mcdonough; mediamonitor; pfeiffer; ruemmler; tweets; twitter
Much more at link.
1 posted on 05/01/2014 5:31:33 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Is simple enough to reply by hanging up.


2 posted on 05/01/2014 5:34:17 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: McGruff

I'll show those Freepers they can't make fun of me.
I'll just forward this post to the NSA.

3 posted on 05/01/2014 5:37:12 AM PDT by McGruff (I'ts not the crime it's the coverup they said.)
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To: McGruff

....as if Obama doesn’t have a willingly subservient media.

What a joke.


4 posted on 05/01/2014 5:43:15 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: McGruff
Hate my tweet? I'm pretty sure the current White House hates everything about me. I'm male, white, straight, married, successfully employed, educated, Christian, believe in the Constitution, believe in limited government, believe in border security, couldn't care less about gay rights, realize that 99.999% of racism in America exists only in liberals' minds, I own firearms...

Worst of all, I realize that literally about 99.9% of everything that comes out of bammy's mouth and about 90% of what comes out of this administration is complete BS.

5 posted on 05/01/2014 5:46:27 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: McGruff

The comments are worth reading.
Yahoo is supposed to be “liberal,” but their readers are 99.99% anti-0bama, and very intelligent about it.


6 posted on 05/01/2014 7:25:13 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Excellence
The comments are worth reading.

I'm shocked to read the comments. There is Hope for Change.

7 posted on 05/01/2014 8:20:44 AM PDT by McGruff (I'ts not the crime it's the coverup they said.)
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I wonder how many she refers to the IRS.


8 posted on 05/01/2014 10:53:15 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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