Buzzfeed Editor To Interview President Obama

Atmosphere seen at Let's Get Weird: A BuzzFeed Event sponsored by The CW at South by Southwest, on Saturday, March 8, 2014 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Hal Horowitz/Invision for Buzzfeed/AP Images)
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Buzzfeed Editor Ben Smith will interview President Obama on Tuesday, marking the first presidential interview for the website, CNN reported on Sunday.

“BuzzFeed News has had our share of big stories and big interviews, but this will be our first interview with a sitting president of the United States,” Smith wrote in a Sunday announcement on Buzzfeed. “It’s a nice tribute to the work my colleagues have done to take this place from an ambitious, zany experiment to one of the most ambitious new news and media organizations in the world.”

According to Smith, Buzzfeed will ask readers to submit questions for the president. BuzzFeed Motion Pictures will also film a video with Obama.

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  1. Anything that Obama can do to shove his fist up the ass of the traditional media is sparkle-ponies-and-free-Hershey-Bars fine by me!!!

  2. Avatar for ratel ratel says:

    Local Mom Interviews the President with this 1 Bizarre Trick!

  3. What? Hasn’t Chuck Todd exclaimed yet that this is beneath the dignity of the office? Only true journalists like himself can interview a sitting President.

  4. Its just an interview, I never understand why so many get so worked up over the President doing a quick interview. Its nothing and if they do a real interview, President Obama will shine, if they get quirky, he will play along and rock at that too. He always does. Remember, between two ferns anyone? The man is for real and besides being wicked smart, he has a great sense of humor.
    That’s completely Presidential.

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