chicago tv journalists finally get their first—and last—interviews with obama /

For the eight years he was in office,President Barack Obama snubbed the Chicago press corps, ignoring repeated interview requests from local reporters in his adopted hometown. Then—days before he returned this week to deliver a farewell address to 18000 people at the McCormick Place conference middle on Tuesday—the White House invited five Chicago TV journalists to Washington and offered...

Source: cjr.org