Obama's First Post-Election Interview

One of the most interesting part starts at 13:50 in when he talks about reading Lincoln/FDR.
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This morning on on Morning Edition, they aired a segment about the Obama Administration’s likely relations with the media moving forward.

They look at his relations with the media in the past when he was a state legislator:

“He was a one-man show,” Zeleny says. “He was his own press secretary, his own communications director and his own political strategist.”

Democrats were in the minority, and while state Sen. Obama wasn’t written about a lot, he was quoted about substantive issues such as the justice system. But Parsons says he didn’t leak like other lawmakers in Springfield, Ill.

“It took awhile for it to dawn on everyone: He wasn’t playing to win in the state Legislature; he was thinking about something else,” she says.

They also look at his use of new media:

And Obama’s campaign found innovative ways to go around that filter, including regular Web video updates from David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager. Millions of people signed up for the updates.

Zeleny says the campaign was brilliant in sharing information through online social networks, YouTube and other viral outlets.

“I think in this White House, you may once again have more information about the president and the administration than ever before,” Zeleny says. “But I still think there will be fewer opportunities for questions and direct interaction with reporters and the president.”

For the record, so far, I’ve been impressed with the Change.gov blog.

Hopefully this is a sign of things to come…lots of transparency and direct communication through new media.

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Here are the other two parts of the interview:

At around 4:30 in Obama talks about his Washington Apartment, which almost burned down, and his janky car w/ a hole in it.

He sounds like he might be even cheaper than me.

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