"I’ll thumb through all the major papers in the morning. I’ll read The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and Washington Post,
just to catch up."
-- President Obama, in speaking to RollingStone. He also says he doesn't watch a lot TV news, but added: "I like The Daily Show. . . . I think Jon Stewart’s brilliant. It’s amazing to me the degree to which he’s able to cut through a bunch of the nonsense – for young people in particular, where I think he ends up having more credibility than a lot of more conventional news programs do."
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ReplyDeleteIn this thread, I encourage and welcome comments about reading habits of Obama and other politicians. I don't want to turn this into a partisan political debate, however.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see USAT mentioned in the President's reading list.
ReplyDeleteHe just looks at the pretty graphics, doesn't count as reading.
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ReplyDelete11:30 I remove comments where readers attack posters with name-calling, etc.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jim. I love spirited differences, but the posters whose name-calling is the only thing in their tool box... are just depressing.
ReplyDeleteIf Obama does read the WSJ, then it’s likely only to see his own name in print - not comprehension, as much of the well-supported analyses and opinions the WSJ provides clearly conflicts with many of his policies. The latter of which likely well explains Obama’s glowing comments about Stewart in Rolling Stone as he seeks to give more credibility to a show that too many already believe is real news (it’s not) for political gain because it "leans" his way.
ReplyDeleteAll of which seems to leave America’s newspaper, USA Today, off Obama’s reading list as its content is well above what left leaning banter the Comedy Channel provides, yet not tony enough in America to even mention that it’s read.
And yet Gannett still spends big money to maintain Tyson’s increasingly less-impactful location, one even its newest executives seek to avoid.
Do you really expect an educated, informed person to read USAT? With what it has become, maybe he'd check it once a year for NCAA brackets.
ReplyDeleteThis strikes me as a slap against our iconic Susan Page who perhaps is not so iconic after all.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Hunke and Banikarim and Micek and Ellwood can beg Mr. and Mrs. Obama to read the nation's newsrag while they are entertaining friends at the WHC dinner.
ReplyDeleteIBD, Investors Business Daily is a good newspaper, for those of you who enjoy reading a full story and not just a paragraph
ReplyDeleteSince Gannett is less about content than style, this seems to be a marketing issue about USA Today's "iconic brand."
ReplyDeleteMaryam, could you get on this, please?
We aren't for elitists, remember? She said so.
ReplyDelete4/25/2012 10:09 PM Right on. With all those connections and marketing skills Banikarim and Micek claim to have, and the pricey PR firms they have hired, why is USAT always MIA on the morning news and analysis programs. Get your butt off the road and on the job for a change.
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