It’s well established that Barack Obama, both as a candidate and a President, has received very favourable coverage from the American press. But what’s less known is that many of the White House reporters who cover Obama greatly resent the way they are treated by the Obama administration.
There are still some strikingly positive write-ups for Obama, even in supposedly objective news stories. This from the AP struck me at the weekend:
Casting aside years of rancor, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed the biggest nuclear arms pact in a generation, lacing the moment with new warnings of sanctions for an intransigent Iran.
The treaty, sealed after months of halting negotiation, is significant not just for what it does but for what it symbolizes: a fresh start for the United States and Russia, and evidence to a watching world that nuclear disarmament is more than a goal.
Blimey. Give that man another Nobel Peace Prize.
But the truth is that it is media editors rather than reporters who tend to worship Obama most. At the coalface, there’s a lot of frustration. That’s been an undercurrent for while but it seems the issue is now bubbling to the surface.
Take these two pieces in the Washington Post.
Read More: By Toby Harden, UK Telegraph
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Weasels all.
What a useless piece of journalism……. it tells me nothing but conjecture…….Nothing is backed with facts… What a joke.
obviously you didn't read the two articles given…
Perhaps the press has become disillusioned with nuclear pacts, I'm not a member of the press but when something is repeated time and again it become boring, Obama could regain their interest if he told Medveyev to kiss his behind and taunt him into exchanging nuclear attacks. These repetitive pacts aren't worth the ink they are signed with, Obama lies, the Russians lie, it's not exactly the same as a marriage vow to have and to hold, even that vow is for the moment, morning comes and the future looks longer than it did the day before. As nearly as I can tell the only such pact that seems to have legs is the one between North and South Korea, 57 years and counting on the agreement to disagree. This pact with Russia is like renewing marriage vows, it has sentimental, not legal value, but not to worry, another president of the US and another president of Russia, will renew the vow in a decade or so.
Obama lap-dogs shamelessly reporting trivia as news! Wake up Americans.
Can't be. Is he not there GOD?
Maybe the media are finally waking up to the fact that B.O. thinks he is better than everyone else, even those who adore him! His level of narcissism is frightening.
He is treating the media just like he treats the American people, like fools. The media is nothing to him but a pack of useful idiots!
It's because of these yellow rag journalists that this country is now saddled with this obamanation! I have no pity for them or their yellow rag papers. I hope they all fail. They are real close because most intelligent people don't read or listen to the crap they spew every day! Even their propaganda cable news shows are on the skids. Just look at their ratings vs Fox! Anyone who has over 1 brain cell and some morals want the truth, not the lies these people spit out every day!