President Obama Primetime Press Conf. 7/22/09: Will President Obama mention the election in Iran?

Settled as No

Background: WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama will hold a prime-time press conference on July 22 at 9:00 pm (0100 GMT July 23), the White House said Friday in a post to the micro-blogging website Twitter.

In a first for the administration's relations with the media, the "tweet" announced the question-and-answer session before the White House sent out a traditional press release.

"You heard it here first: Primetime presidential news conference at the White House, Wed. 7/22 @ 9PM EDT," read the twitter post

The Obama administration, building on efforts by his predecessor George W. Bush's communications team, has aggressively used new media and social networking in a bid to reach as wide an audience as possible with a message unfiltered by the news media.The press conference will be Obama's fourth prime-time televised session with reporters.

http://twitter.com/whitehouse

Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.

Forecast history %

Yes

33%

67%

Settled as No on Thu 23rd Jul 2009 10:08am PST

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Suspend date: Wed 22nd Jul 2009 3pm PST
Settlement date: Thu 23rd Jul 2009 10:08am PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Wed 22nd Jul 2009 3pm PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 35%

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