Taking Out The Trash

What we almost missed today…

• Check out President Obama’s fly-swatting skills in an interview above with CNBC’s John Harwood.

• Gawker takes a look at the Twitter habits of the White House press corps here.

• WebNewser points out the Secret Service has denied msnbc.com’s request for the names of all White House visitors from Jan. 20 to now. It also denied a narrower request by the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sought logs of visits by executives of coal companies.

• Julius Genachowski, President Obama’s nominee for chairman of the FCC, said today he does not support reinstating the fairness doctrine, as reported by Broadcasting and Cable.

Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.