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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You schmooze, ya booze!
Was there an EIB microphone there? /s
Sneaky muthuh.
AP has come out with some relative hit pieces against Obama in the last couple of weeks. Jay Leno is clobbering Obama nightly, now that he no longer has to fear losing his job over it. The Prism scandal has finally gotten some people to think about what it was they voted for, etc.
Remember, these people don’t deal in facts and truths, they deal in NEWS CYCLES WON AND LOST. The meme is all that matters, and they have been losing a bunch of cycles recently.
I've been prayin...
The pen is for ink not for silence. Our sword has been cast aside and the mighty press has bowed to tyrany!
Seriously, don’t even do that. Some people don’t know what “effigy” means. They think it’s a town somewhere.
Do the “Berchtesgaden” attendies how bad this looks?
From the article: “Relations between the press and the White House have been especially FRAUGHT since last month’s revelation that ...”
Fraught means filled with something — often something bad. So, relations between the press and the White House have not only been filled with something bad, it has been especially filled with something bad. Really, the only way to deal with an abundance of especial fraught is to secretly empty out the bad stuff and fill it back up with some good old schmooze.
Another tactic is the “kiss and make up” kind, but that only follows a certain period of time after the secret schmoozing ploy is attempted. And if you schmooze especially hard and secretly, why then it will be all right again for the schmoozer, not so much for the schmoozees. Well, the schmoozee often does feel a little bit better...and a little bit dirty, the kind that doesn’t wash off easily. He’s now fraught with guilt, if he has a conscience that is. Of course, he’ll just deal with it until he can get some more of that schmooze juice. Thus, he finds himself just milling around waiting for the fix that will surely come.
Yes, in fact I suspect you can look in one ear and see clear through to the other side.
Those are generally given up at the security gate, as they’re easily detected as metal. Once, some dozen years ago, I got by with a small recorder that was mostly plastic externally. I had my hand over it, where it was in my pocket as I went through the metal detector. I felt so bad during the meeting time, thinking I’d be found out, that it was just not worth it. I would’ve done better just to take notes.
HF
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. In total, about two dozen reporters were included. (BuzzFeed was not invited to the meeting, although a reporter, who did not know the president would be present, requested to be included.)
The New York Times needs to just DO the right thing - not debate it. The New York Times could bring trust back to the Newspaper Industry... but they can't do it by fooling themselves into thinking fake 'soul searching' about this stuff or dem fed material is the same as doing what's right.
And the New York Times fell for it... What idiots.
And the New York Times fell for it... What idiots. In the short run they got some worthless inside stuff - in the long run they've thrown away more credibility with their readers.
THEY are nothing but the extended arm of the W.H. propaganda machine equal to the old Pravda
I DID say kiss...
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