Press Turns Obama News Conference into Bad Action Movie
The insular White House press corps is said obsessed with Beltway inside baseball. But it can also pander to the masses as well as any tabloid — or Hollywood studio.
Several of the questions at tonight's presidential news conference — from AP's Jennifer Loven, CBS Radio's Mark Knoller and of course NBC News' Chuck Todd — make us wonder if reporters are taking cues (subconsciously or otherwise) from disaster movies and Fox action serials.
Not to say we've never imagined swine flu quarantines, ticking-time-bomb terrorist interrogations or sending commandos after nuclear weapons, but recent history would seem to show it's the boring topics, like inter-federal-agency memo circulation, SEC staffing and intelligence vetting, that end up making the biggest impact.