Why the White House Hates Journalists on Twitter (Sometimes)

President Barack Obama uses a laptop computer to send a tweet during a Twitter Town Hall in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 6, 2011. For the Obama White House, tweets from reporters are a kind of early warning system. It’s up to Jessica Allen, 24, to sound the alarm. Allen, whose official title is “media monitor,” tracks journalists’ tweets and flags them in mass emails that land in the in-boxes of more than 80 Obama aides, including chief of staff Denis McDonough, White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler, press secretary Jay Carney and senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer.



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