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The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

The press is the enemy.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

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.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.