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Media Notes: An Interview With Outgoing White House Press Secretary Dana Perino

The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-23-2008
'Substantive' Press Is Taken for a Spin

OXFORD, Miss. -- David Axelrod was surrounded by a pack of camera-toting, mike-wielding, pushing-and-shoving media types, one of whom asked whether his man Barack Obama had been "too nice" in the just-completed debate with John McCain.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-28-2008
Hurricane Blows Networks' Convention Coverage Off Course

ST. PAUL, Aug. 31 -- On the eve of what was supposed to be the Republicans' week in the media spotlight, every network is suddenly turning into the Weather Channel.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 08-31-2008
As Obama Aide, Reporter Dons Flack Jacket

ST. LOUIS -- As Barack Obama started fielding questions at a hospital here last week, Linda Douglass stood off to the left, scribbling in a reporter's notebook, as she has in every presidential campaign since 1980.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 06-15-2008
A Reporter's View From The War Zone

Three years into the Iraq war, Richard Engel was holding down the fort as NBC's Baghdad bureau chief when a top producer in New York, M.L. Flynn, told him there was "tremendous pressure" in the newsroom to lighten up his coverage.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 06-09-2008
McClellan, a Tad Late Correcting The Story

In an interview three years ago, when he was waging daily warfare against the White House press corps, Scott McClellan told me: "The media's trying to get under our skin and get us off-message."

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 06-01-2008
Retired Officers, Still Doing The Pentagon's Work on TV?

Talk about marching orders.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 04-20-2008
Rove on Fox: It's Fair to Say He's Mellowed

Karl Rove, who has spent his career denigrating Democrats, was on the Fox News set last Monday when he was asked a point-blank question: Should Eliot Spitzer resign?

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 03-16-2008
Clinton, Crying Foul -- or Craftily Playing the Game?

In case anyone doubted that Bill Clinton still harbors considerable resentment toward the press, it bubbled to the surface last week.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 01-13-2008

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