I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.
I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.
I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.
I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.
A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.
The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.