Taking part in the “Front Row Seat To Spin” panel discussion on Monday, New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush shot down the notion that the “Obama era” was a “golden age” for journalists.

“I do want to give Trump credit on things, ” Thrush said. “I think one of the things that I think he’s doing better than Barack Obama are these press conferences, and his outreach to individual reporters, even for organizations like my own that he criticizes.”

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“I think people — we can’t fall into this trap where we hearken back to the Obama era as if it was this golden age,” Thrush continued. “When Obama had press conferences, he had a single piece of white paper, and he had six or seven organizations that he had pre-selected to call upon, and a lot of them were pretty favorable to him too, generically.”

“I think Trump’s free-ranging press conferences, I think, are a lot more democratic than the way Obama conducted them.”

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