In an article today, TWT’s Joe Curl calls “foul” after the WH press corps got played during yesterday’s news conference. On the presidential presser, Curl says:
Many in the hard-pressed press corps played along throughout the hourlong show, turning the ball over again and again - “accidentally,” of course.
Curl says that as the president dribbled around [...]

By Howard Kurtz

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For Chuck Todd, getting calls from Rahm Emanuel is a staple of covering the White House. But they dwell as much on what the NBC correspondent knows as what he can get the president’s top aide to divulge.
For New York Times columnist David Brooks, it’s an Emanuel invitation for a White House chat [...]

The Obamas may have the smartest, most finely calibrated press operation in White House history, parceling out scoops (The New York Times), partisan talking points (the Huffington Post), and First Family tidbits (the celebrity mags) to a desperate media. Just don’t ask them to admit it.
By Michael Wolff

Bill Burton is the baby-faced political op [...]

Bob Woodward versus the White House.
By Gabriel Sherman

In early May, White House Counsel Greg Craig circulated a memo inside the West Wing. Part of a series of memos on protocol, it explained how to deal with writers researching books and articles on the White House. (Craig’s unsurprising instructions: Clear interview requests with the press office.) [...]

By: Patrick Gavin

The United States is facing its biggest financial crisis in ages. North Korea is blowing up nukes. Dick Cheney warns us of the “dangers that have not gone away.” And there are still wars raging in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But over in the White House press briefing room, it’s a veritable laugh riot.
Whenever [...]

By Bernie Becker

Two members of the White House press corps forgot to switch their cellphones to “vibrate” during the Wednesday afternoon press briefing, driving press secretary Robert Gibbs back and forth between amusement and annoyance.
The first cellphone to sound off in the briefing room belonged to John Gizzi of the conservative magazine Human Events.
“Just put [...]

WHCInsider.com launched this week, founded by media veterans Tammy Haddad (Haddad Media) and David Adler (BizBash Media). The Website will cover the White House correspondents, with a focus on the upcoming White House correspondents dinner next weekend.
“The intense interest in the White House Correspondents weekend, and the news stories that develop from those events, are [...]

By Ana Marie Cox

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Intense interest in the Obama administration has swelled the ranks of the White House press corps. Outlets such as Politico have thrown a basketball team’s worth of bodies at the project, and outlets that didn’t even exist until recently — Fivethirtyeight.com, the Huffington Post — have created their own White House correspondent [...]

By: Alex Conant

David Axelrod’s appearance on the Sunday shows this past weekend made two things clear: There are no limits on his roles inside the Obama administration, and the White House has no qualms about raising his profile.
While previous presidents’ political advisers have walked a fine line between policy and politics and frequently tried [...]

By Nicolas Carlson
Twitter cofounder  and CEO Ev Williams is headed to the White House today.
The administration invited him to join a “young business leaders” summit to discuss the economic crises.
As Ev himself puts it — in a Twitter message, of course — “[this] must mean they’re *really* out of ideas.”
A reminder: With 6 million members and [...]