Obama has gone from softball questions to nerf ball questions.
Via WAPO
So far in 2015, President Obama has sat down for interviews with three YouTube stars, Vox, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Vice News and Jimmy Kimmel. Obama has not granted interviews to (among others) The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press or USA Today.
Those decisions on who to talk to — and, as importantly, who not to talk to — reflect a broader Obama media strategy, employed throughout his time in office but accelerated in his second term. And that is, to put a priority on sitting down with newer outlets with younger and/or less politically minded viewers.[…]
The chart makes clear that Obama and and his senior aides are focused on breaking the monopoly that big broadcast networks and legacy news organization have long held on the president’s time.[…]
It’s also worth noting that Obama hasn’t abandoned the broadcast networks entirely. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie got an Obama interview that ran right before the Super Bowl, and CBS News’ Bill Plante got one right around the 50th anniversary of Selma. The ABC interview was Kimmel, who isn’t on the news side of that business.