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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs may have given the press corps a “strong A” on Friday but they didn’t reciprocate.
From the Politico
Robert Gibbs gave White House reporters a “strong A” Friday for their work over the first 100 days of the new administration.
Their report card on him is more mixed.
Although White House reporters praise some aspects of President Barack Obama’s press shop, there’s grumbling about Gibbs’ handling of the daily press briefings, where a handful of television correspondents dominate; griping about press management on the president’s European trip; and complaints about Gibbs’ tendency not to return e-mail messages.
And for a team that rode to Washington on a lot of talk about “transparency,” reporters said in interviews with POLITICO this week that the Obama White House has been awfully opaque.
“I guess it depends what your definition of the word ‘transparent’ is,” said Chuck Todd, chief White House correspondent for NBC News.
Adds Wall Street Journal White House reporter Jonathan Weisman: “I think by the press’ definition, they have not been transparent at all.”
Still, has a reporter ever complained about an administration that’s too transparent?
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the reporters complaints about Gibbs or the White House. If they actually believed that this administration would be mreo open and transparent than previous ones then they have no one to blame but themselves.
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3 Comments for Gibbs Doesn’t Impress W.H. Press Corps
From my perspective, REAL reporters would use a presidential press secretary’s daily “briefing” ONLY as a starting point from which to engage in their own further professional investigation and research.
Unfortunately, the younger, video-game-aged, sound-bite-addicted and so-called “professional journalists” of today seem to be V-E-R-Y far removed from the much more skillful, talented and more traditional journalistic example of Woodward and Bernstein.
I’m always happy when the people who dish it out get dissed themselves! The press is not interested in asking intelligent questions, they’re interested in making a statement. The press doesn’t disseminate news they attempt to influence and make news. Does anybody ever listen and watch press conferences anymore? They do? Why?
It’s always funny to watch fellow travelers get dumped overboard in the interests of The Party. You have to wonder whether a scale or two doesn’t fall from their eyes every time something like this happens.