White House and Press Relations Getting Worse

More Reporters Step Forward to Discuss Obama White House’s Petty Treatment of Press   "The validity of the story aside, an indisputable truth is that the press has been guilty since before the 2008 election of running interference for this president. And the American people are wise to it. A Gallup poll conducted last September found that the number of respondents who said they trust the news media had reached an all-time low.

US News  "Like previous administrations, Obama's advisers are trying to force-feed the press corps with their version of reality, and they sometimes give the impression they don't respect the men and women who cover the presidency. Their tactics include bullying, hassling, and, yes, threatening reporters in an effort to get them to back down from their stories or their lines of inquiry. The threats can include warnings that a reporter will lose whatever access he or she has to Obamaworld. In other cases, administration figures or Obama's allies outside government threaten to publicly challenge a reporter's credibility, sometimes with the accompanying use of foul or insulting language."  Via Lucianne