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08.03.2009 8:01 pm

Networks report White House pressure to show press conferences

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The networks are feeling pressured by the White House to televise presidential press conferences live, reports media writer Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. Maybe that’s because they are being pressured, Kurtz suggests in a column titled “The Prez, The Press, The…

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07.28.2009 11:47 am

What’s behind Obama’s use of “ginned up”?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

President Barack Obama has used the term “ginned up” a couple times in recent weeks — which is a couple times more than most people.  The presidential usage prompted the Columbia Journalism Review’s Merrill Perlman to investigate the phrase.

From Perlman’s Language…

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07.22.2009 11:34 am

Fox Network opts to skip Obama’s news conference

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When President Barack Obama holds his third news conference of the year tonight at 7 p.m. St. Louis time, the Fox network will be showing an all-new “So You Think You Can Dance.”  No surprise there: Fox passed on the…

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03.25.2009 9:24 pm

Media critic: Obama got tougher questions at 2nd press conference

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The media was tougher in its questioning of President Barack Obama at Tuesday night’s press conference than it was at his first, according to the scorecard of media columnist Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post.

Kurtz noted that Obama hasn’t taken…

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