{"id":8338,"date":"2013-02-19T07:28:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2013-02-19T07:28:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:28:03","slug":"politico-obama-the-puppet-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/19\/politico-obama-the-puppet-master\/","title":{"rendered":"(Politico)  &#8216;Obama, the puppet master&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong> President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House.\u00a0\u00a0 Not for the reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a liberal press willingly and eagerly allows itself to get manipulated. Instead, the mastery mostly flows from a White House that has taken old tricks for shaping coverage (staged leaks, friendly interviews) and put them on steroids using new ones (social media, content creation, precision targeting). And it\u2019s an equal opportunity strategy: Media across the ideological spectrum are left scrambling for access.<\/p>\n<p>The results are transformational. With more technology, and fewer resources at many media companies, the balance of power between the White House and press has tipped unmistakably toward the government. This is an arguably dangerous development, and one that the Obama White House \u2014 fluent in digital media and no fan of the mainstream press \u2014 has exploited cleverly and ruthlessly. And future presidents from both parties will undoubtedly copy and expand on this approach.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE ARTICLE CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW..<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/02\/obama-the-puppet-master-87764.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8339\" alt=\"130215_barack_michelle_obama_the_view_ap_605_605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130215_barack_michelle_obama_the_view_ap_605_605.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130215_barack_michelle_obama_the_view_ap_605_605.jpg 605w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130215_barack_michelle_obama_the_view_ap_605_605-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/02\/obama-the-puppet-master-87764.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House.\u00a0\u00a0 Not for the reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a liberal press willingly and eagerly allows itself to get manipulated. Instead, the mastery mostly flows from a White House that has taken old tricks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8342,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/8342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}