Even though some of President Bush's nominations for the cabinet - in fact most of them - have long congressional records and complex political histories, newspaper columns are filled with praise and positivity. Brooke talks to Slate.com’s Scott Shuger and Washington Post’s Dana Milbank about how White House reporters “sweeten” ...

George W. Bush has been in office for just a week, but the honeymoon already may be over. Host Brooke Gladstone talks to Slate.com’s Timothy Noah about the tone of political coverage during week one of the Bush presidency.

Long-time political functionary Ari Fleischer will be the new president’s mouthpiece. Amy Dickenson prepared this profile of the new White House Press Secretary.

As President-elect George W. Bush heads to Washington…he’ll take his life-long suspicion of the media with him. Brooke speaks to Bush biographer Bill Minutaglio about his track record with the press in Texas and the kind of media relations we can expect from the Bush Administration.

The Dean of the White House Press Corps joins Host Brooke Gladstone to reminisce about the presidents she’s covered and how they held up in the White House brief room.

With a new president comes new blood in the White House press corps. Reporters covering the outgoing president head for greener pastures as campaign reporters follow their candidate to the White House. This week, Host Bob Garfield goes to the White House briefing room to talk to reporters about one ...