Which White House reporters had lunch with Obama?

Yahoo ^ | Aug 13, 2010 | By Michael Calderone

[Jet Jaguar]

Reporters wouldn't say Thursday who joined President Obama for an off-the-record lunch at the White House.

The Upshot noted the irony that news organizations have been at the forefront of the fight to make White House visitor logs public. Not to mention the fact that the names of those who visit the White House in August will be made available to the public by November anyway.

But who wants to wait until November? The Upshot has now learned which White House beat reporters attended the off-the-record meeting.

Here's the lineup: Ben Feller (Associated Press), Jonathan Weisman and Laura Meckler (Wall Street Journal), Michael Shear and Scott Wilson (Washington Post), Caren Bohan (Reuters), David Jackson (USA Today), Carol Lee (Politico), Peter Nicholas (Tribune Co.), Margaret Talev (McClatchy) and Julianna Goldman (Bloomberg).

Several reporters on this list gave "no comments" to The Upshot on Thursday.

[Vaduz]

Reporters report to Obama for an off-the-record instructions for November election game plans,lunch to ensue.

[FourPeas]

They sold their souls for a fancy ideology.

[FourPeas]

Let’s see. Is it surprising that any of the “journalists” from the following went?

Associated Press
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Reuters
USA Today
Politico
Tribune Co.
McClatchy
Bloomberg

The only surprise for me is that **The New York Times** isn’t on the list. Apparently they didn’t like the idea of it being off the record? Now that IS a surprise.