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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
Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion

Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-23-2008
Safety in Numbers? Poll-Driven Press Goes Out on a Limb

The network maps are bathed in blue, the pundits contemplating a landslide, the conservative columnists preparing for the indignities of an Obama administration.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-19-2008
A Rising Political Star Adopts a Low-Key Strategy

Early in 2005, Barack Obama met with half a dozen advisers in Washington to plot strategy. Some of those who participated remember that the group focused less on the details of Obama's new job as the junior senator from Illinois than on managing his overall political image. He wanted to run for....

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-16-2008
At MSNBC, A Liberal Supply Of Sharp Elbows

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 31 -- Anyone who thought the Democratic convention would be a dull and choreographed affair clearly didn't count on the bitter, ego-fueled clashes that marked the week.

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Obama Abroad: We Get the Picture

After saying little in public during a weekend in Iraq and Afghanistan, Barack Obama met with traveling reporters near Jordan's Temple of Hercules, a gladiator standing his ground against the media hordes.

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As Good as His Words

From the moment he took the White House podium, Tony Snow was a pugilist and performance artist, relishing the daily combat with White House correspondents.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 07-13-2008
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.

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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

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