You may not know that Obama's new UN ambassador, Susan Rice, is married to the executive producer of "This Week" as I mentioned in This Post.
What you probably don't know is that a bunch of reporters have gone to work for Obama.
I don't mean in the traditional way that reporters have worked for Obama (Hello, Jennifer Loven from AP). This time, the Obama administration is actually paying them.
According to Politico:
In three months since Election Day, at least a half-dozen prominent journalists have taken jobs working for the federal government.
Who are the reporters?
Jill Zuckman of the Chicago Tribune
Is going to work for Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
Let's check out some recent samples of her work. Shall we?
As trumpets played and drums rolled, Barack Obama walked smiling out of the Capitol and into the winter sun to take his oath of office, stopping to embrace an icon of the civil rights movement, Rep. John Lewis, and another icon's son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
Yeah, I know. It was Barack's inaugeration, and we can't judge her on one article.
So let's find another. This one reflects on how some bitter Republicans are handling Barack's victory:
But for some Republicans, a Democrat in the White House and expanded Democratic majorities in Congress will be just too much.
"I imagine some folks will be sitting in dark rooms drinking whiskey," said a congressional GOP staffer who spoke on condition that he not be named.
Again, one article. How about this one regarding the 'failed Bush presidencies'?
"At one point, Bush talked about his father, and he said 'Sip, my man, don't underestimate what you can learn from a failed presidency,' " recalled Wayne Slater, a political reporter for The Dallas Morning News and one of Bush's earliest biographers.
With that harsh assessment long before he took office as the 43rd president of the United States, Bush had decided he would do things differently from his father. But as he prepares to leave office after eight years, there are many similarities he might have wished to avoid as part of just the second father-son presidential duo in history.
You can read about how the Obama administration wanted to decrease impact on the environment...
Two Green Inaugural Balls are planned, including one featuring a green carpet made from—what else?—a recycled rug. Official invitations to the Jan. 20 inauguration are being printed on recycled paper. The homeless will be handed furs.
Or you can read this earlier article about how conservatives don't like McCain.
You can always read this piece that Jill wrote on Cindy McCain:
An icy wind whips through it as she tromps across hillsides still slick from snow on the Albanian border, wearing well-worn hiking boots and carrying her Prada purse. She's looking out at mine fields and visiting schools where children must thread their way around left-over munitions.
Here's an article that Jill wrote about Obama in 2007, about how he wanted to make American cars more energy efficient. How did that work out?
Its ironic that now Jill is working for the transportation department.
But by far, this is my favorite article by Jill. It was written in 2004, about the 2004 campaign.
Note the headline:
As end nears, it's security vs. hope
Hilarious. Where have I heard that before?
This is a complete list of Jill's stories in the trib. I put them here for reference, and in the interest of openess and, uh, transparency.
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