Does It Matter if Obama Loses the Pundits?
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
NYT
WASHINGTON — The reviews of President Obama’s first address from the Oval Office came in fast and harsh.
On blogs, on a blur of cable news shows, on magazine Web sites, in the morning newspapers, the verdict within 12 hours was nearly unanimous: Mr. Obama’s speech on Tuesday night about the oil spill had been pedantic, vague and uninspiring — a lost opportunity.
“It’s the first Obama speech ever panned by the talking heads,” Mike Allen reported in the Politico Playbook.
But so what? Does it really matter if you lose the pundits anymore?
There was a time when the after-action takes of big commentators were sought out by Americans trying to assess the latest news coming out of the capital. They helped drive public opinion.
(More here.)
NYT
WASHINGTON — The reviews of President Obama’s first address from the Oval Office came in fast and harsh.
On blogs, on a blur of cable news shows, on magazine Web sites, in the morning newspapers, the verdict within 12 hours was nearly unanimous: Mr. Obama’s speech on Tuesday night about the oil spill had been pedantic, vague and uninspiring — a lost opportunity.
“It’s the first Obama speech ever panned by the talking heads,” Mike Allen reported in the Politico Playbook.
But so what? Does it really matter if you lose the pundits anymore?
There was a time when the after-action takes of big commentators were sought out by Americans trying to assess the latest news coming out of the capital. They helped drive public opinion.
(More here.)
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