[MNJohnnie]

It was a terrific meeting and GW needs to do more of it,it's the only way he will ever get his message trough the DBM filters

Yep. Needs to go out and have one on ones on air with all the major talk radio shows too

Had a real good example this week of how the Bully Pulpit no longer exists.

President goes out and does 1.5 hours on Iraq with the Press. So what does both the Associated Press (the major source of wire news that all broadcast and publish news outlets use) and the Minneapolis Star Tribune (the dominate News Paper in Minnesota) report about this meeting?

The question the reporter asked about Libby!

So they totally censor 88 mins of the President's Press Conference to spin the 2 mins the President spent responding to a really stupid reporters question!!!!

[anita]

WH press corpse is almost dead. Good thing WH has transcripts of anything WH-related, or Rely on some good Conservatives, if you just need a gist.

[rodguy911]

You have to wonder just how low their numbers/readership has to go before the DBM will even consider going back to a straight news format, if they even remember what that entails.

[maica]

President goes out and does 1.5 hours on Iraq with the Press.

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And the previous day he flew to Cleveland and had a 1,5 hour townhall meeting. On Fox news we saw video of W holding a mic and moving his lips, but the voice on the audio was Wendel Goler, explaining what the President had said.

Nauseating!!!!