By Julie Mason
Examiner White House Correspondent
A fraction of the G20 media set-up at the Excel Center in London, 7 a.m BST.
President Obama wraps up his London G20 summitry today with bilateral meetings with Saudia Arabia, South Korea and India, and working sessions with the 19 other Gs. Then a presser — didn’t we just hear from him yesterday? — and early tomorrow morning we are off to France, for NATO.
Tsk. Deadbeats!
Matt Spetalnick of Reuters: Type faster! It’s the G20!
By about 9 .m. the media center was populating — journalists of the world, eating sticky buns and mulling stimulus. Or is that the same thing?
In any case, the White House is being particularly uncooperative about providing information on the president’s summit activities. This morning he met with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak, but what was said? The South Korean government has already briefed its entire press corps on the meeting. The Obama administration is stil deciding whether or not to brief a handful of White House poolers.
Traditionally on these trips, the White House provides the secretary of state or national security advisor to brief reporters. This White House has provided only a few lower-ranking officials to give not-for-attribution readouts.
After Obama’s meeting with Lee, reporters tried to ask him a question about North Korea’s possible missile launch — an issue expected to be central to his conversation with Lee. No response.
But never fear, America! Richard Wolf of USA Today is on the job:
