Jewish Press at White House Press Conference

Aaron Keyak — March 25, 2009 – 10:49 am | Israel | Obama Comments (0) Add a comment

There were Jewish and Israeli press aplenty at Barack Obama’s press conference last night. Ron Kampeas of JTA did a nice write up for the Capital J blog.

An excerpt:

JTA made the cut (here and here for our briefs), along with The Jerusalem Post, Ha’aretz, and Israel TV channels Two and Ten. (It was cute seeing Aharon Barnea and Gil Tamari shoot each other’s segments—who says journalists don’t play nice?)

A relatively substantive “read and watched by Jews” contingent did not necessarily mean that the president was going to address “our issues.” There were lots of Turks, Latin Americans, French, Spanish, British and journalists of other nations in the room.

I did have a question prepared, maybe a little long (see below). We had no idea whether he was going to pick us—I know of at least one journalist who was told she would be picked who did not make the cut, yet Ann Compton of ABC Radio clearly did not expect her question to come up. So some reporters are pre-ordained, others get struck by lightning, so to speak.

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