This week, Channel 5 anchor Leon Bibb flew off to Washington D.C. for an interview with President Obama, the second local news personality to score facetime with POTUS in the last six weeks.
Since other Cleveland media outlets are landing interviews with the president, we officially submitted our own request for a fireside chat in the Green Room. It turns out sitting down with the Leader of the Free World isn’t as easy as making public records requests with the city of Cleveland*, and the White House was none too keen on letting alt-weekly provocateurs inside the hallowed halls of big government**. With the Scene sit-down with President Obama a fading long shot, we thought we’d pop open our notebook and let you see the hard-hitting slice of journalistic inquiry we were ready to dish at the Commander-in-Chief.
This article appears in Jun 8-14, 2011.