They are also masters of scrutiny avoidance. The president has not granted an interview to print reporters at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, POLITICO and others in years. These are the reporters who are often most likely to ask tough, unpredictable questions.

MSM buyers remorse?
MSM CYA?
MSM wambulance?

#4 | POSTED BY ZED

ZED this is not Fox, the Weekly Standard, or the Daily Caller. This is the Politico who has been having a love fest with Obama from day one. This is not about him being a Marxist, a Communist, a Kenyan, or even a Muslim but about "the most transparent White House in history" controlling their message. Honestly ask yourself if a republican administration could have gotten away with any of the things this administration has?

Must be painful to accept that a guy like Jay Carney could pull the wool over your eyes and that all the dribble pouring from your cup every morning is spoon fed to the media by the White House solely so that the "useful idiots" do their bidding for them.

So, don't have a "love feast" with him already. You haven't for the last four years. What's changed?
#13 | POSTED BY ZED

I'm just trying to help you out ZED. Someday in the future you may want to tell your kids and grand kids that you saw right through the Obama ministry of manipulation when others around you just kept drinking the cool-aide.

If you want to help me, make me breakfast.
#18 | POSTED BY ZED

Getting tired of crow every morning?

Not if it's fried and has white gravy.
#23 | POSTED BY ZED

Everything is better with white gravy. See we can agree on somethings.

You mean as in, "Oh Gawd! Omygawd! Omyf'ngawd! Yeeeeeeeeeeow!!!!" -
#24 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS

I always suspected you were a closet red neck. You must be over joyed that NASCAR is back. Yeeeeeeeeeeow, there's a chick on the front row!

#32 | POSTED BY CORKY

Doe it concern you that the reporters who can't get a interview are the ones that ask real questions? I don't call the fluff 60 min. pieces reporting. That's Oprah Winfrey with out the accent.

Liberal Bias Central to Obama Media Edge

Politico writers Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen are on to something with their feature published today about President Obama's mastery of the mainstream media.

No matter how smart the strategies employed by the White House, the president's ability to skate through four years without getting seriously challenged by the mainstream media would not have been possible if most of those being played were not willing accomplices. Due credit must be given to the administration's ability to take advantage of technology as well as their brilliant if unscrupulous game playing with journalists. But without the liberal bias of most of the mainstream outlets that let the president play them like a piano, he would come across as a bully and a demagogue rather than the reasonable nice guy seen in those "60 Minutes" interviews he loves to give.

But, as Politico rightly points out, they have doubled down on it by limiting access to the working press -- even those from generally friendly liberal outlets -- and going directly to the public via social media and White House-created content. That has been combined with cleverly staged leaks to journalists who then dutifully do the administration's dirty work for it on a host of issues.