The White House: Now Available in iPhone-Friendly Format

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Posted on Jan 25, 2010

White House via YouTube

Top White House press-wrangler Robert Gibbs cheerfully unveils the new White House iPhone app in a new promotional video released Monday for the occasion. As jaunty music plays in the background, Gibbs sets the scene in the video by declaring that users can watch him “set the White House press corps straight every day” with the app. Such a card, that Robert Gibbs.

But does this latest development constitute a greater bid for “transparency,” or is it just a high-tech trick to give the Obama administration’s PR arm a way to muscle into your cyber-world?  —KA

CBS News:

“You can read the blog, watch videos, check out the latest photos, and you can even get live video right on your phone,” says Gibbs.

The App seems most appealing for people whose opinions mirror those of the White House. Unlike a traditional news report, it will not feature criticisms of White House policy or alternate viewpoints on issues.

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By sook81, January 26, 2010 at 7:33 pm Link to this comment

Tacky.

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By diman, January 26, 2010 at 6:17 am Link to this comment

Just what America needed, another reality show.

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By enorceht, January 25, 2010 at 8:19 pm Link to this comment
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wow what a commercial

iphone = apple
service providers = at&t

i guess apple & at&t made early contributions to the dems “war chest”

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By Vic Anderson, January 25, 2010 at 2:57 pm Link to this comment
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Mirrorspeak indeed from another halfascist executive word butcher, same as Ari
Fleischer!

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