The media blitz has given Barack Obama unprecedented wall-to-wall coverage in the mainstream media no matter what he does.During his first eight months in office, President Obama has sat down for three times as many television interviews as his most recent two predecessors combined.
It’s all Obama all the time - ad nauseam
"He's turning the presidency into an infomercial," warned former White House speechwriter Matt Latimer. "It's not just damaging to the White House. It will also ultimately hurt President Obama's image as a fresh, non-Washington leader."
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In the New York Times alone, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, 405 stories on the Obama administration have appeared on the front page through mid-August of this year totaling 119,678 column inches. That's 9,973 column feet of Obama coverage on the Times front page alone.
It’s television, however, that has been the most powerful draw for Mr. Obama.
In his five - that’s right, five - major appearances Sunday, Obama talked against adding troops to Afghanistan, denied he was making a deal with Russia that would cut missile defenses in Europe, and continued to push his government-run health-insurance program.
As of mid-August, Obama submitted to a total of 66 television interviews, dramatically outstripping his two predecessors.
During the same period of their own presidencies, President George W. Bush gave 16 television interviews and President Bill Clinton gave just six.
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