After a year in office, Mr. Obama has managed to do what every modern president may have wanted to do but never did: effectively shut out the reporters who work just a few feet from the Oval Office. He has not had a full-scale White House news conference in seven months, the longest such stretch by any president in a decade. And he has made a practice of not taking reporters’ questions at day-to-day events, as other presidents did.

During the campaign Barack Obama said the Defense of Marriage Act was “abhorrent.”
Last week Obama had his lawyers working to support the Defense of Marriage Act.
No media coverage.

This week, Obama tossed a bone to same-sex partners of federal employees—partial benefit coverage—and the media covers this like white on rice…downplaying the pesky part about sans full health care coverage for same sex partners. WaPO even tacked the lack of health benefits on as an addendum to their story titled: Obama Intends to Extend Federal Benefits to Unmarried Partners.