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Michael Baruch Grossman, 70, a political science professor whose specialty was the relationship between the president and the news media, died May 14, 2007, in Oakland, California, from complications arising from pancreatic cancer.
Grossman's scholarly work spanned the period of the evolution of the modern White House press corps beginning with the Franklin Roosevelt administration. In Portraying the President: The White House and the News Media, coauthored with Martha Joynt Kumar, they argued that the White House and the media are locked in a relationship of mutual need. The underlying cooperative elements of this relationship, although often obscured by visible and memorable clashes, provide the...