"Forget change, I want improvement!"

What did she expect? The campaign never had to face tough questions and when they did, the campaign targeted the reporter's and their firms.

Let's just say, Ms. Brown, read what the Gov. Blago wanted to do to the Chicago Tribune and you will get a hint of what is in store for you.

C. Brown & CNN are a real piece of work.  Her opinion on anything is irrelevant as she proved throughout the election with her and CNN's total bias.  Even Obama knows the media are a bunch of wimps and wannabes and he will use them to his advantage.  

No Representation in NorCal

Some very nice folks posted on the Moveon piece. I think the one where they called Brown a fascist c##t was just swell. What is wrong with people who watch a benign little clip like  that and say stuff like that? I guess I'll never understand why you would get that crazed over such a thing.

I was one (I'm sure there were others) who wondered how enthralled the media would be when he refused to answer questions that he didn't like. It was a certainty that it would happen eventually. And they didn't see this coming? (Can't I just eat my waffle?!!) The man has an amazing sense of entitlement!

And it's funny how Brown mentioned the current President but completely ignored the Clintons, who were the masters of dodging questions.  

"a media that many believe has been more than friendly towards you." [and this is how you repay us????]

Now there she hit the nail on the head!

Did she remember to wink when she said that? No need to get yourself fired when you're really just trying to give him cover.

At first glance this looks like the objectivity we have been yearning for decades to see, but knowing the media's actions for that same period, could this actually be a plea to Obama or his team to do a better job of screening the people asking the questions?  After all, it is clear the media have become the campaign machine for Democrats and for one to demand that Obama answer some actual questions about him and his actions is radically out of character for them and could be a ruse designed to give them a tiny lever to later claim they are unbiased.  I HOPE it is a genuine trend they will start, but I don't think they are about to CHANGE.

Looks like there might be a little bit of buyers remorse out there now.

“It is the media's job to be annoying, especially those members of the media assigned to cover the president, or, in this case, the president-elect. Their role is not to support president-elect Obama, but to challenge him, to do their best to hold him accountable.”

Let’s ask this question. Where in the Constitution does it say that the president is accountable to the media? You’re right, it doesn’t. The president is accountable to the people, but the press isn’t the people. The press has declared itself the people’s representative, but that’s just the media’s conceit – no one ever voted to have reporters represent them. The president is required to answer questions from the other two branches of government, but not from private citizens (which, despite their conceit to the contrary, is all that reporters are).

Instead, the current system of press conferences, and what the president is expected to do at them, is governed by an unwritten agreement. The mass media is useful to the president so he can broadcast his message. The media’s “price” for broadcasting those messages is a willingness to answer questions. That’s the deal. It isn’t law, or even part of constitutional theory. It’s just a marriage of convenience. But, as Obama is showing, the media’s half of the bargain is unenforceable. Whether Obama plays the game or not, the media must cover him. Like it or not, the news business lives off of politics, and so Obama has them over a barrel. If he answers questions because they’re to his advantage, fine. If they’re not to his advantage, he skips them, and there’s nothing the media can do about it. (Except stomp their feet, which is what Campbell Brown is doing.)

I don’t feel any sorrow for the press. They willingly became lapdogs for their favored candidate. They can’t complain now when the master puts them in the doghouse.

where is it written that the POTUS has to even talk to the press at all?

...she's about to get thrown off the plane!

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke