Obama Promotes Press Freedom Abroad, Has Media Relations Problems at Home

This is a man who inspired high-fives  in newsrooms across this great land of ours when he declared that he would have the “most transparent administration in U.S. history.” Regretfully, that promise lasted all of a few weeks.

Journalism groups have scolded him and his response has been a questionable finger pointed in their direction because they “spread cynicism.” Now the president, while traveling in China and Myanmar, says that the  the media should have greater access to do their job in those lands.

There he stood, side-by-side with Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi holding a joint news conference.