Originally posted by RRconservative


For those of you worried about Mr. Obama not getting his press coverage........

The nonpartisan research group Center for Media and Public Affairs along with California's Chapman University released a study that found the nightly newscasts devoted 27 hours, 44 minutes to Pres. Obama's presidency in his first 50 days. That compares to 7 hours, 42 minutes for Pres. George W. Bush and 15 hours, 2 minutes for Pres. Bill Clinton during the first 50 days of their first terms.

Think about the first 100 days of Obama's presidency, compared with Bush's, or Clintons. I can't remember anything about Bush's 1st term, pre-9/11.

Obama's Administration has had a lot more on its plate. It makes sense there's been more coverage of the White House during one of the worst financial crisis in decades. If McCain had won the election, I think it's pretty certain he would have got more coverage than Bush or Clinton too.

Why does every one think that every TV station must show every Obama press conference.

I don't care to watch them and many times i can go to 9 out of 10 tv stations in my area and they are showing the exact same feed of a presidential speech or press conference.

Enough already two or three station is plenty let the other stations run there regular programing.

I got no problem with FOX doing what they want with there time..
What gets me is the people griping about a president that actually treats us like people rather than subjects. Once a month he stands up there and lets us know how it’s going and ANSWERS QUESTIONS. Really answers questions.
Perhaps you prefer someone who only comes out for photo ops and takes a 6 week vacation as soon as he gets sworn into office.

Once a month. Once out of every 25 days.
The teleprompter? Really? The teleprompter again?
You don’t find that a bit petty?

To be fair, there have been many occasions when Presidents (of both parties) asked for air time and didn't get it. I personally don't like to listen to ANY politician talk. They are ALL full of "bull" and can lie with such ease that it is scary to think they are human like the rest of us.

I get about 200 cable channels and almost never watch ABC, NBC, CBS or FOX. I can always find something to watch that is way less boring than listening to 0bama read his teleprompter. If he says anything of importance I will be able to read about it on the internet and not have to see his image or hear his voice.

Please name me one president that can field a question and give a more detailed, THOUGHT OUT answer than him.
You can dislike him all you want but if you're gonna state a reason you're gonna have to do better than that.
Or just simply say you don't like him.

Going through all the posts negative towards Obama (not FOX) so far we have….
Teleprompter
Once a month is too much
The nightly news is too much
Over saturation
He reads answers someone quickly types into a Teleprompter (seriously?) and talks in circles and doesn’t want to answer questions he doesn’t want asked.
Boring (plus several assumptions about his intent)
Poser spouting meaningless crap and only wants good news.
Too many news conferences.
The teleprompter again
He is the reason for the switch to digital (with associated wild speculation) and worst pandemic to hit this country.
Ducks questions and rambles about the budget for what seems like hours.
He can’t answer questions without the prompter.


We have 4 saying too much coverage. This is a decision made by the channels themselves. I recommend changing the channel.
2 don’t like the prompter and 2 more think he can’t answer questions without it.
If you are going to criticize the question and answer sessions I suggest you actually watch them. This would also apply to the one that says he ducks questions or gets questions he doesn’t like. When replying to a pointed question the best response is usually a pointed answer. I have yet to see him duck a question. In fact I have watched him answer a question he didn’t have to (on line town hall: Pot legalization) and not give the populist answer.
One that says he rambles and one that says he’s boring. Perhaps you just can’t keep up. One says he’s a poser (lacks substance? You mean like George Bush?) and spouts meaningless crap. Again, perhaps you can’t keep up and if you only want good news I suggest turning the TV off all together.
And what we are left with is Mr./ Mrs. Digital .

Not one substantive complaint about Obama in the bunch.

Not one Republican has pulled near the percentages that he has since prior to 1988 and never has the total turn out been bigger (at least not in my lifetime).
And Bush had the gall to make that crack about “the will of the people” after one of the slimmest wins ever? You have, in fact witnessed the will of the people. Get used to it. Or secede or try and start a revolution. But if you are going to complain, you should probably stick to the issues. But that’s on several other threads.

good for fox news. they are trying to help obama out. if his teleprompter fails for the second time this week, only half of america will see it instead of all of america

Hypocrisy alert!!!

Uh, did any of you democrats have any issue when CNN and MSNBC and others did not carry Bush news conferences - especially in the last year?

Originally posted by Grimstad
Please name me one president that can field a question and give a more detailed, THOUGHT OUT answer than him.
You can dislike him all you want but if you're gonna state a reason you're gonna have to do better than that.
Or just simply say you don't like him.

Who said anything about dislike.

I stated I just hope that it is alot better then his last press conferance. That last one was horrible and if disagree then its just because you have had your lips on his posteriur for to long.

He can't field a non scripted question any better then the last 2 or 3 Presidents. Clinton was probably the best Presidential speaker we have had in a long time. W had his made up words and Obama has his uhs. Both are funny and sometimes painful to listen to.

Originally posted by Grimstad
Please name me one president that can field a question and give a more detailed, THOUGHT OUT answer than him.
You can dislike him all you want but if you're gonna state a reason you're gonna have to do better than that.
Or just simply say you don't like him.

out of curiousity how many presidents have you heard speak?

obama doesnt even write the content= every president has writers!

obama is NOT that great of a speaker

as for fox not carrying obamas press conference

i am sick of the obama commericals
every where i turn channel theres freaking obama

it feels like i am not in america anymore - its like saddams iraq and obama state run media -hes everywhere.

when has any president in our history been plastered around everywhere
on tv on the internet so freaking much HES EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and i am tired of it.

[edit on 28-4-2009 by neo67]

I don't see why they would want to interrupt TV.. aside from being seen. What happened to the old radio broadcasts? If you want to hear what he has to say, maybe they should make a national radio station so he can talk. That way if you want to listen, you can... if you wanto watch TV, go for it because it's not going to be interrupted by a speech. Personally I don't watch while they're giving speeches, I just listen. Not to mention I'd rather not see his face

the most important thing here is how many people actually watch obama ?

if you voted for him you will and if you didnt vote for him you wont

if your on the left(not all) but most people didnt bother watching bush


obama has received more news converage than other other president in history

so imo its time to tune out.

I don't understand the problem.
Many stations will be carrying it. Some people can VOD it.
It will be available on youtube. And probably CSpan.
I rarely watch these spin-cycles anyway. Democratic, or Republican.