Rating President Obama's Media Campaign

President Obama's mini media blitz in support of the stimulus package "seemed to invigorate him and give him some compelling 'real people' to talk about," wrote ABC News' senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper. "It helped firm up his narrative that the capital doesn't understand what's really going on out there, however contrived a narrative that may be." Monday night's press conference--which was watched by nearly 50 million people across several broadcast and cable news networks--also illustrated the notoriously BlackBerry-addicted president's embrace of new media when he took a question from Sam Stein, a correspondent for liberal Website The Huffington Post, while neglecting some traditional news sources.