Tuesday, December 29, 2015

How Politicians Deal With TV News, from Obama to Cheney to LBJ


In 1933 the newly inaugurated FDR said, Fear is the enemy. Today’s politicians have a harder time getting that message across. (Wikipedia)

A week ago at this time I was still typing up notes from a two-hour “off-the-record” interview that President Obama held at the White House with several magazine and newspaper writers, including three from The Atlantic: Peter Beinart, Jeffrey Goldberg, and me. I put “off the record” in quotes because things a president says in front of more than two people rarely stay…



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How Politicians Deal With TV News, from Obama to Cheney to LBJ

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