Posted on 06/11/2013 1:14:26 PM PDT by NoLibZone
WASHINGTON — President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with select reporters from some of the nation’s largest print and online outlets Monday, in the White House’s latest effort to placate an increasingly restive press corps.
White House officials regularly meet with reporters for so-called “background briefing sessions,” where the attendees cannot be mentioned by name nor quoted directly, but Monday’s meeting was different. Initially billed as a conversation with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, the president made a surprise appearance — a very unusual move — and the White House placed the proceedings off the record beforehand. The meeting came amid a series of scandals crashing over the White House that has placed the administration on defense in a way it hasn’t been until now.
Relations between the press and the White House have been especially fraught since last month’s revelation that the Justice Department had covertly collected phone records from Associated Press reporters in pursuit of locating the source of a national security leak. When the Justice Department sought to hold an off-the-record meeting with journalists to discuss its investigation, news outlets pushed back, with the New York Times publicly refusing to attend.
Reporters who attended Monday’s session with the president were loathe to discuss it with BuzzFeed, citing the White House’s stipulation that the meeting remain off the record. But the session came after the White House announced a “travel/photo lid” for the day — White House parlance for no more events, and the signal for the pool reporter to go home — and reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Time, McClatchy, Politico, Tribune, NPR, Bloomberg, USA Today, AFP, Yahoo and other outlets were milling around the briefing room waiting to be called in.
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A different appendage, methinks.
My first thought as well.
Propaganda Central...............
When you’re a warm and happy cat-bird sitting in a pile of BULL-PLOP..
Singing about it might wake up “the CAT”...
No doubt everyone there got the message..
Stop
It’s how an abusive husband keeps control of his battered wife, (wives). Obama calls them all together, makes nice, promises he won’t do it anymore, and they all swoon. Obama will convince them to just put all this scandal nastiness behind them.
I hope, one day, those traitorous, miserable, pieces of excrement in the media get what they truly deserve.
So poshitus called his 3,112th Circle The Wagons pow-wow.
They were instructed NOT to cover the ACLU’s lawsuit.
The propaganda organs were all present. Dr Goebbels would have been proud.
Did any of these gutless reporters enter the meeting with their cellphones set to record??? I will imagine they didn;t.... damned cowards...
They are as to “journalists” as Obamacare is to “insurance”.
No, last time many didn’t go. This time subtrafuge was necessary. The Chief of Staff called the meeting nd the President just happened to drop by.
The man is been there much to long. he needs to be gone
Totally gonna steal that one! If you can find attribution, I’ll add it.
:-)
Pui.
(Thai speakers will appreciate this one...)
The sucking noises must have been deafening.
New talking points. They’ve received them. From now on, thanks to Mr. Snowden, everything will be hand delivered in person during these little intimate coffee klatches with the press poodles. There will be many more.
Throwing them a bone. Hey, you’re invited to my super duper secret meeting because you’re one of the really cool kids!
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