Ms. Sweet is not the person to think of if you think of the reporters that people like to say have given in to Barack Obama’s charms. Nor does she have an axe to grind. She is not a pledged foe of Mr. Obama the way some reporters for hometown papers become when the people they have covered emerge from their backyard to become national figures.But even other reporters who follow her around say she’s the first to call “bullshit.”
“She is an in-the-moment specialist,” said Jeff Zeleny, the New York Times Obama reporter, who covered him with the Chicago Tribune as well. 
