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With all the promises of transparancy in reality Obama has been the lest accessable President for the press in recent times.
Obama tends to prefer interviews and 'infomercials' over press conferences because it allows him greater control over what he wants to say and to avoid painful topics he wants to stay away from. Obama has had a horrible time facing the press in an unrehersed and controlled environment to the degree that he is worse than Bush ever was under the same conditions.
Obama shunning the press conference apearances has actually made even the normally very supportive liberal media a little upset because Obama seems to be reinventing his own media releases and limiting their access to ask him the questions they want to get answers for.
I am really looking foward to this to see how he does and to see how he faces the tough questions because only recently has the mainstream media been asking him the tough questions, I want to see if he finally steps out from behind the screen and is open and honest with the American people or if he will stay behind his screen and act as usual like an elitist who is above the little people and need not explain things that are obviously (to him) beyond their understanding.
Obama tends to prefer interviews and 'infomercials' over press conferences because it allows him greater control over what he wants to say and to avoid painful topics he wants to stay away from. Obama has had a horrible time facing the press in an unrehersed and controlled environment to the degree that he is worse than Bush ever was under the same conditions.
Obama shunning the press conference apearances has actually made even the normally very supportive liberal media a little upset because Obama seems to be reinventing his own media releases and limiting their access to ask him the questions they want to get answers for.
I am really looking foward to this to see how he does and to see how he faces the tough questions because only recently has the mainstream media been asking him the tough questions, I want to see if he finally steps out from behind the screen and is open and honest with the American people or if he will stay behind his screen and act as usual like an elitist who is above the little people and need not explain things that are obviously (to him) beyond their understanding.
