“The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind the rest of us.” YearsHouseWhiteBehindsNewsOrganizationEightWhite HouseFoxes Author:David Letterman
“Here's the latest from the Pentagon -- the generals are worried that the White House is spreading itself thin by trying to fight a war on two fronts; Afghanistan and Fox News.” TryingTwoWarFightingHouseWhiteFrontsNewsWorriedWhite HouseAfghanistanFoxesFox NewsPentagon Author:Jay Leno
“If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the network evening news, universities, church bureaucracies, the New York Times, or the Washington Post. Institutions that are overwhelmingly left-liberal will continue to misinform the public and distort public discourse.” IfsLittlesChristianHouseLeftChurchReligiousWhiteNew YorkNewsHollywoodInstitutionsUniversityCongressEveningPostsWhite HouseDiscourseBureaucracyNew York TimesPublic Discourse Author:Robert Bork
“The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on the media to make its case to the public; the media need the White House to fill their airtime and news columns.” NeedsJobsOrderHouseWhiteCasesSuccessfulMediaDependsNewsBeing SuccessfulWhite HouseColumns Book:What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News Source: What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News
“U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.” FirstsTwoHouseNationsWhiteCitiesNew YorkNewsOrganizationCaughtBoxesTerrorismFlightVulnerabilityReportsPoundsWhite HouseNew York CityInvestigationContinuingFifteenSeptemberReportersFoxesTouringFlewBin LadenSeptember 11FourteenRazorsSprayOsama Bin LadenFox NewsPeppersUraniumCuttersDaily NewsPepper Spray Author:Dave Barry
“Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.” JobsHousePresidentWhiteCreatingNewsWhite HouseGood NewsPresident BushNew Job Author:Jay Leno
“I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)” AsksHouseWhiteNewsPhotographerWhite HouseAssociationGathering Author:Ronald Reagan
“[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” PeopleKnowsTwoWarHomeLyingNightCoursesHouseLeftBlackCommunityWhiteLeaderEnemyBreakDrugNewsMeetingsCampaignsEveningIllegalWhite HouseBlack PeopleAntiwarMarijuanaAssociatesHippieHeroinVilify Author:John Ehrlichman
“The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not... They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.” HouseWhiteMediaNewsPressesWhite HouseBriefing Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.” PeopleKnowsHardHandsHouseWhiteNumbersGroupsSourceNewsHappeningsOkayFollowingSecureEnterpriseWhite HouseDozenReportersCompetingFiniteOutletsImbalanceUpper Hand Author:Erik Wemple
“There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.” WayTwoHandsGovernmentActionValuesHouseWhiteVisionCasesTelevisionProductsNewsOrganizationResponsibleHearingWhite HouseImperativesCompatibleFactualHygieneOptimalFoolproofLive Television Author:Erik Wemple
“In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.” PoliticalHouseLeftWhiteBoysFourMediaEatingNewsMalesDecadesDustJournalismWhite HouseBusExposedOutsidersPacksReportersAlaskaInsidersGals Author:Michelle Malkin
“Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.” WarHousePresidentDifferencesWhiteChangedNewsOfficialsWhite HouseBobSchedulesPresident BushSponges Author:Conan O'Brien
“At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.” PersonsHouseWhiteCompanyNewsIndependentHillsWhite HouseFormulasCapitolContractorCapitol Hill Author:Bob Schieffer