It's a New Dawn in America!

Stuff you won't read in the Los Angeles Times (or anywhere else):

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn (yes, she whose favorite political philosopher is Mao Tse Tung), on how the Obama campaign used video messages to control the media during the election in order to avoid talking to the press:

“It was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters. Just put that out there and make them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. …So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it and it did not always make us popular with the press. But we, increasingly by the general election, very rarely did we communicate to the press anything that we didn't absolutely control.”
Senior Advisor to Barack Obama David Axelrod telling George Stephanopoulos on ABC that the White House doesn’t consider Fox News to be a real news organization and that ABC and others “ought not to treat them” as if they are a news organization.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel saying on CNN that Fox is not a news organization [because it] has a perspective. …And more importantly is to not have the CNN’s and the others in the world basically be led and following Fox…” 

(Source: Gary Bauer, End of Day report). 

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, callooh callay....