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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...

Click on the Source for a downloadable PDF file. Analyst’s Desktop Binder Department of Homeland Security National Operations Center Media Monitoring Capability Desktop Reference Binder 2011 Contents 1 Media Monitoring Capability Mission & Reporting Parameters: ......................................................... 4 2 Items of Interest (IOI): Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Guidance:............................................................................ 24

Media Monitor By: Jason Maoz Walt’s Paper Trail Judging from the shocked reaction among right-wing bloggers to a paper on U.S.-Israel relations written by professors Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and issued this month by Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, one would think the paper’s authors were a couple of unknowns with no discernible paper trail. Both men, however, have been outspoken on the subject for years, and Walt in particular has made no secret of his feelings about what he calls Israel’s "domestic political penetration" – i.e., its manipulation...