Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today

[gridiron]

As Michael Gee said on the previous page, how can anyone be upset that he took questions from the Washington Times and FOX but didn't solicit questions from NYT, Washington Post and others? That's laughable. If they're so in the tank for him, seems like taking their questions would have been taking the easy way out. This is a non-issue, other than a few in the press corps having their feelings hurt.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

He got to Univision, I don't see what the problem is.

 

[YankeeFan]

Not trying to be political here, but. . .

Yeah, because I'm the one who made it political

When we stop killing American kids in the illegal war in Iraq and stop discovering "terrorists" that we held without hearing and tortured at Gitmo, the statute of limitations will have run out. I'm pretty sure war crimes has an unlimited statute of limitations.

And yes, back on topic...

Obama called on all the major networks, but none of the major newspapers. I wonder if he felt like he couldn't just leave one or two out.

The questions to Stars & Stripes, Univision, Ebony, and heck, even the Washington Times were clearly attempts to reach specific audiences.

It wasn't about letting different people ask questions, it was about letting specific people ask questions. It was political. (Not saying it like it's a bad thing.)

 

[buckweaver]

The questions to Stars & Stripes, Univision, Ebony, and heck, even the Washington Times were clearly attempts to reach specific audiences.

You do understand how a press conference works, right? You do realize that just because he didn't take a question from the Washington Post, the Washington Post reporter present still is able to use his answers? And that while a Stars & Stripes reporter might be more inclined to ask a question about a military issue, that doesn't mean Obama's going to give an answer that nobody but Stars & Stripes would want to write about?

Of course it's political, and of course there are political undertones to any decision a president makes. But, believe it or not, he's actually a politician. And it's a political press conference. So what exactly do people expect, and what's the point of the criticism here?

 

[Jay Stone]

Big. forking. Deal.
Grow up, kids.

My sentiment exactly. This all smacks of the media community engaging in protracted navel gazing. And we're not talking about Megan Fox's navel.

 

[Football_Bat]

Not trying to be political here, but. . .

We were trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.