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President Obama's dispute with Russian President Vladimir Putin has been getting the headlines, but now he's in a new beef with Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner, and this one could get really nasty.The President recently said that the public's fascination with the Kardashian and other high-profile celebs was changing the American Dream, in an interview on Amazon's Kindle Singles site. Where children once aimed for a good home, a good job and the possibility of higher education, he said, today's youngsters are exposed to such wealth in the form of celebrities' lifestyles that everything seems smaller by comparison. "Kids weren't monitoring...

WASHINGTON — So that’s how you land an exclusive interview with President Obama. Employees of Amazon, which scored a coup by securing a rare one-on-one interview with the president for its journalism outlet Tuesday, donated more than $116,000 to Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Obama: Traditional journalism is dead By Jonathan Easley - 07/31/13 02:50 PM ET President Obama weighed in on the state of journalism in an Amazon Kindle interview published Wednesday, noting the difficulties journalists face in the new media atmosphere and declaring that the “old times aren’t coming back.” “It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere,” Obama said. “If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper. Now, you have a few newspapers that make a profit because they are national brands, and journalists are having to scramble to...