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The White House Press Corps: when enough is too much

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Things we won’t miss about declin­ing polit­ical cov­er­age c/o John Robin­son:

From the front page of the New York Times today:

Pres­id­ent Obama’s order freez­ing the salar­ies of his senior aides and the pen he used to sign it. Doug Mills/The New York Times

Answer­ing the burn­ing ques­tion, how many news pho­to­graph­ers does it take to shoot a pen.

The News Media’s Lessons From The Obama Campaign

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Obama textMy chums — the Car­ni­vores of Journ­al­ism (read in tooth and claw) — are rip­ping apart the les­sons for the news media from the online elect­oral cam­paign­ing of President-elect Barack Obama.

Here’s my mes­sage for the old news media. You missed a rev­enue stream. Auc­tion endorsements.

Don’t be fooled by the SMS and Face­book wrap­pers. This is not the Paypal pub­lic sphere. We’re not all friends and Obama didn’t twit­ter his way to the White House. Con­tinue read­ing →