Why wouldn’t Obama feel nothing but contempt for the press? They gave in to him unconditionally, refused to do their job, and ran cover for him throughout  his career.  Obama sees the press not as the protector of the public’s right to know, but as part of his team that should do his bidding unconditionally. He also is immature, arrogant, thin skinned, egotistical and narcissistic. There is something about him that reminds one of a Third World dictator who gives himself titles and campaign ribbons for battles that he never fought and university degrees for subjects he never studied.

by Josh Gerstein and Patrick Gavin

One of the enduring story lines of Barack Obama’s presidency, dating back to the earliest days of his candidacy, is that the press loves him.

“Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,” Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

But even then, only four months into his presidency, the joke fell flat. Now, a year later, with another correspondents’ dinner Saturday night likely to generate the familiar criticism of the press’s cozy relationship with power, the reality is even more at odds with the public perception.

Obama and the media actually have a surprisingly hostile relationship — as contentious on a day-to-day basis as any between press and president in the past decade, reporters who cover the White House say.

Reporters say the White House is thin-skinned, controlling, eager to go over their heads and stingy with even basic information. All White Houses try to control the message. But this White House has pledged to be more open than its predecessors, and reporters feel it doesn’t live up to that pledge in several key areas:

Read the rest here: Why reporters are down on Obama