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"Obama sets new standard for managing the news". - McClatchy Newspaper.

In the past week, Obama has done the following.

Spoke with Iranians through video conferencing.
Spoke to viewers of a Latin American music awards ceremony through video conferencing.Appeared on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show".Appeared on "60 Minutes".Wrote an opinion column that appeared in newspapers around the world.Held a prime-time news conference aired on television.Held an online town hall meeting.
A former Google manager is Obama's new director of "citizen participation". Obama has directors of new media, directors of online programs, broadcast media, regional media,
African-American media, Hispanic media, research, and "message events". All of this has created - in the words of McClatchy - a "symbiotic government-media relationship".