When you have MSMer Howard Kurtz writing about the arm twisting by Rahm-bo to get his guy onto yet another prime time press conference, that amounts to as many in 6 months as Bush had in 8 years, you know the sheen is turning dull.
"In the days before President Obama's last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top.
Rather than calling ABC, the White House chief of staff phoned Bob Iger, chief executive of parent company Disney. Instead of contacting NBC, Emanuel went to Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric. He also spoke with Les Moonves, the chief executive of CBS, the company spun off from Viacom.
"Whether this amounted to undue pressure or plain old Chicago arm-twisting, Emanuel got results: the fourth hour of lucrative network time for his boss in six months. But network executives have been privately complaining to White House officials that they cannot afford to keep airing these sessions in the current economic downturn..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/02/AR2009080202045.html
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