Peter Baker

Sunday Show Preview - Posted October 9, 2009
• NBC's Meet the Press: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), NBC military analyst and former US Southern Command Commander-in-chief Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Ret. Gen. Richard Myers and a roundtable with Atlantic Media political director Ron Brownstein, WSJ's Paul... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted September 11, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and a roundtable with CNBC's Erin Burnett, author Joshua Cooper Ramo and NBC's Chuck Todd CBS' Face the Nation: Senior White House advisor David Axelrod, Sen. Olympia Snowe... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted August 21, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and a roundtable with PBS' Tavis Smiley and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough CBS' Face the Nation: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted August 21, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and a roundtable with PBS' Tavis Smiley and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough CBS' Face the Nation: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted August 20, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and a roundtable with PBS' Tavis Smiley and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough CBS' Face the Nation: ABC's This Week: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and a roundtable with 2008 Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, WaPo's Kathleen Parker, former Clinton Labor... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 08.17.09 - Posted August 17, 2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. Catching up on the Morning Reading List after a week out sick... Belated Happy Birthdays to Nora McAlvanah, Kelley McCormick and Sol Levine who celebrated... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted August 7, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: National Security Advisor James Jones, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker and a roundtable with NYT's David Brooks, CNBC's Erin Burnett and Newsweek's Jon Meacham CBS' Face the Nation: National Security Advisor James Jones, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ABC's This... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted August 6, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: National Security Advisor James Jones, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker and a roundtable with NYT's David Brooks, CNBC's Erin Burnett and Newsweek's Jon Meacham CBS' Face the Nation: ABC's This Week: Fox News Sunday: CNN's State of the Union: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL),... [FishBowlDC]

Afternoon Wrap-Up: White House Edition - Posted July 24, 2009
All the more fitting after the President's surprise visit to the briefing room today, two piece that may be of interest... • NYT White House correspondent Peter Baker has a piece today headlined "Obama Complains About the News Cycle but Manipulates It, Worrying Some." He writes, "perhaps no other president has been... [FishBowlDC]

Afternoon Wrap-Up: White House Edition - Posted July 24, 2009
All the more fitting after the President's surprise visit to the briefing room today, two piece that may be of interest... • NYT White House correspondent Peter Baker has a piece today headlined "Obama Complains About the News Cycle but Manipulates It, Worrying Some." He writes, "perhaps no other president has been... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted July 24, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton CBS' Face the Nation: White House senior advisor David Axelrod, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) and historian Douglas Brinkley ABC's This Week: Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and a roundtable with NYT's David Brooks, Arianna Huffington, 2008 Nobel... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted July 24, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton CBS' Face the Nation: White House senior advisor David Axelrod, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) and historian Douglas Brinkley ABC's This Week: Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and a roundtable with NYT's David Brooks, Arianna Huffington, 2008 Nobel... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted July 23, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton CBS' Face the Nation: ABC's This Week: Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and a roundtable with NYT's David Brooks, Republican strategust and former Bush advisor Ed Gillespie, Arianna Huffington, 2008 Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman and George Will Fox News... [FishBowlDC]

Headline War: NYT v. WaPo On G-8 Climate Change - Posted July 8, 2009
It's pretty rare to see two polar opposite policy headlines in two competing publications. But take a gander at the the G-8 climate headlines from the The New York Times and The Washington Post. Peter Baker's piece for NYT was posted within the same hour as Craig Whitlock and Michael Fletcher's... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 07.02.09 - Posted July 2, 2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. Happy Birthday to NYT's Peter Baker and a big congratulations to Roll Call's David Meyers, whose daughter Sophie Rose Meyers was born on June 16th--... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 05.28.09 - Posted May 28, 2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! Happy Birthday to WaPo Publisher Katharine Weymouth Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. Here's what we're reading this Thursday morning... TV | MAGAZINES | WEB | EVENTS | KICKS... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted March 27, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) CBS' Face the Nation: President Barack Obama ABC's This Week: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and a roundtable with ABC's Matthew Dowd and Cokie Roberts, NYT's Paul Krugman and columnist George Will Fox News Sunday: Secretary Robert Gates CNN's State of the... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted March 27, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) CBS' Face the Nation: President Barack Obama ABC's This Week: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and a roundtable with ABC's Matthew Dowd and Cokie Roberts, NYT's Paul Krugman and columnist George Will Fox News Sunday: Secretary Robert Gates CNN's State of the... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 03.10.09 - Posted March 10, 2009
Good Morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. Its day 50 covering the Obama administration and week six for us. Today is TVNewser's Summit in... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted February 27, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and a roundtable with former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN), GOP strategist Mike Murphy, Vanity Fair's Dee Dee Myers and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ABC's This Week: OMB Director Peter Orszag, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and a roundtable with Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, Karl... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 11.20.08 - Posted November 20, 2008
Good morning Washington. What D.C. street is featured in the above picture? Think you know? Drop us an email and we'll give you the correct answer (and list the correct guessers) in tomorrow's Morning Reading List. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort... [FishBowlDC]

About Tonight... - Posted November 4, 2008
(Photo Credit) Where will you be watching tonight's election results? We've asked all sorts of journos for their evening plans and they include an Atlanta hotel room, the Phoenix Biltmore, and Champs Sports Bar in Cincinnati. Join us after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Perry Bacon Needs To Work On His Pecs - Posted September 22, 2008
Mark Leibovich's recent piece in the New York Times was picked up by Drudge thanks to a quote by Joe Biden, in which he told a reporter (not named in the piece) to work on his pecs. So who was the mystery reporter? We hear it was the Washington Post's Perry Bacon.... [FishBowlDC]

Perry Bacon Needs To Work On His Pecs - Posted September 22, 2008
Mark Leibovich's recent piece in the New York Times was picked up by Drudge thanks to a quote by Joe Biden, in which he told a reporter (not named in the piece) to work on his pecs. So who was the mystery reporter? We hear it was the Washington Post's Perry Bacon.... [FishBowlDC]

This Week In Pool Reports - Posted July 25, 2008
Hey tourists! Were you on a Tourmobile staring at the Jefferson last week? Look to your left next time -- that was the President. More after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

This Week In Pool Reports - Posted April 11, 2008
Katherine Seelye gives a behind the scenes tour of being in the White House pool. The pool is on the road... again. "POTUS and President Putin spoke a few minutes to the pool, praising each other and commenting on POTUS's dancing ability. You'll see the transcript shortly. Putin, speaking through a translator, welcomed... [FishBowlDC]

This Week In Pool Reports - Posted April 4, 2008
Who knew that the VPOTUS is a champ on a no sleep? Also, this week's pool should be lesson to all poolers -- don't wear the scrubby socks. "Potus and motorcade arrived at Nationals Park about 7 pm. He disappeared for more than an hour for clubhouse visits. After both the Braves... [FishBowlDC]

That's A Lot Of Spice Channel - Posted April 2, 2008
WaPo's Peter Baker describes life on the road with President Bush. From Ukraine: In fact, one member of the press pool got a bill for $1,849 for one night's stay, not even counting room service. ... [FishBowlDC]

The Press Gets Ripped Off - Posted April 1, 2008
WaPo's Peter Baker discusses what happens to hotel rates when POTUS (and the journalists who love him) travel abroad: And with scores and even hundreds of people involved in setting up the complicated logistics of such a trip, these excursions are usually good for the local economy. They're not always so good for... [FishBowlDC]

WHCA: More Celebs Named! - Posted March 31, 2008
Although the Washington Post's Peter Baker doesn't note that, well, much of his piece on White House Correspondents' Dinner celebs has already been reported (that's kind of how the Post rolls, though...Or is that what is meant by "according to the latest buzz" and "word is already spreading"?), we do learn... [FishBowlDC]

This Week In Pool Reports - Posted February 21, 2008
Last week in Africa, it was all Baker all the time. "Many, many apologies for the problems getting pool reports out of Benin. Your pooler seems to have finally lost those last brain cells still desperately hanging on." -- Peter Baker, The Washington Post "One last thing from earlier -- the Benin... [FishBowlDC]

This Week In Pool Reports - Posted December 4, 2007
Ummm... does Martin Sieff have a crush on Condi, or is it just us? "President Bush and Salvadoran President Antonio Saca wore dark suits andblue ties as they made statements to the press pool in the Oval Office, although they took no questions. Mr. Bush, who also wore black cowboy boots, glanced... [FishBowlDC]

Snow Talks More Than Perino - Posted October 24, 2007
The Washington Post's Peter Baker looks at the number of words uttered by White House Press Secretary Dana Perino per briefing and compares them to her predecessor, Tony Snow. Perino: 2,690 per briefing Snow: 4,363 per briefing.... [FishBowlDC]

A History of White House Spin - Posted August 14, 2007
In yesterday's Washington Post, Peter Baker takes a look at an upcoming book by professor Martha Joynt Kumar, entitled, "Managing the President's Message." As a college professor, Martha Joynt Kumar studied and taught the art of presidential communication for years. But one day, she did what few of her colleagues in academia... [FishBowlDC]

Journos In Love At The Post - Posted July 3, 2007
Harry Jaffe points out the following pairings: "The latest pairing is Pulitzer Prize–winning special-projects reporter Barton Gellman and WMD specialist Dafna Linzer." "The reigning power couple today is Susan Glasser and Peter Baker. She's assistant managing editor for national news; he covers the White House--which means she's his boss." "Then there's Marie Arana, editor... [FishBowlDC]

In The Loop Page Continues To Evolve - Posted June 12, 2007
You may have noticed Peter Baker taking a stab at the Post's "In the Loop" page Monday (which already features Jeffrey Birnbaum, Al Kamen and Lois Romano). Since Kamen took the buyout, he's now on contract and one of the things he wanted to do was scale back from three columns a week... [FishBowlDC]

Ruth Marcus On The Post's Office Romances - Posted May 21, 2007
In looking at the Wolowitz-Riza-Worldbank situation, Post columnist Ruth Marcus discusses how the Post handles office relationships: As it happens, my newspaper grappled recently with a similar problem, with the genders gratifyingly reversed -- and came to an opposite conclusion. In naming a new person to run the national section, the top... [FishBowlDC]

Tony's Back - Posted April 30, 2007
He holds this morning's 10 a.m. press gaggle. More from Peter Baker here...... [FishBowlDC]

Notes From A Post.com Chat - Posted January 19, 2007
Washington Post reporters Chris Cillizza, Peter Baker, Dan Balz, and Shailagh Murray video-taped their latest watercooler chat about "President Bush's 'surge' plan, the new Democratic majority in Congress, and the leading 2008 presidential contenders." We were there for the play-by-play... ... [FishBowlDC]