The Obama administration is limiting press access to the White House while spewing out images and statements favorable to the President and carefully controlling how and when the president answers to the public. (Associated Press, April 2, 2013, by Nancy Benac)
The president has held fewer press conferences than his predecessors, Martin Schram points out in the Pocono Record, March 10, 2013. Schram also said that the administration issued overblown statements about the damage of the sequester cuts and made the case that the administration relationship with the press was in lousy shape. -db