Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Obama and the media

Obama: ‘I’ve got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration.’

During an interview with President Obama that aired on CNBC yesterday, chief Washington correspondent John Harwood said, “When you and I spoke in January, you said — I observed that you hadn’t gotten much bad press. You said it’s coming.” Harwood added that since then, Obama still hasn’t received much critical press and wondered if his administration isn’t being “sufficiently held accountable.” Obama, however, disagreed:

OBAMA: It’s very hard for me to swallow that one. First of all, I’ve got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration. I mean, you know, that’s a pretty…

HARWOOD: I assume you’re talking about Fox.

OBAMA: Well, that’s a pretty big megaphone. And you’d be hard pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front.

(Think Progress)

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I think that all of the media has been pretty tough on Obama - sometimes legitimately and sometimes not. But, I don't think that anyone is giving him anything close to the free pass that bush has.