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President Obama’s news conference on Wednesday night attracted nearly 29 million viewers but that is down sharply from his previously televised pressers.
From the Washington Post
The President Obama Show scored a series low Wednesday but, even so, managed to beat the whacking of Matt the Hat on “American Idol” the same night.
The “Been in Office 100 Days” episode of Obama’s series of prime-time appearances, which aired at 8 p.m., officially clocked 28.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen. Which, to be perfectly accurate, was clocking only 10 of the networks to carry Obama’s news conference — not including PBS, Fox Business Network and C-SPAN in its tally, for instance. That’s because, Nielsen has said in the past, C-SPAN carries no advertising, PBS can’t give it reliable stats and newish FBN isn’t yet rated by Nielsen. No comment, in case you’re wondering what is our response to those explanations.
Anyway, “American Idol,” in which Americans voted to remove Matt Giraud from the Idol running — for the second time — attracted about 22.4 million fans, which was that franchise’s smallest Wednesday crowd in four years.
Even so, the president’s numbers were nothing to rave about, being his smallest prime-time TV crowd by a wide margin.
According to Nielsen — which, again, does not include every network that has carried the Obama series — his March 24 news conference had at least 40.4 million viewers. His Feb. 9 news conference copped 49.5 million.
And his Feb. 24 special, a.k.a. Address to Joint Session of Congress, attracted a whopping 52.4 million viewers.
The very same networks which refused to cover many of president Bush’s press conferences are falling all over themselves for the chance to give Obama a national audience. Now that the newness has worn off how much longer will they continue to take the economic hit just so they can kiss up to their favorite president?
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8 Comments for Obama Press Fatigue
Obama has been doing quite a few of these announcements during prime time. People are getting tired of it because all the while, he is breaking promises and the MSM and people are realizing that he is just another politician who is all about making promises but keeping them only when they are convenient. Here are some broken promises that Obama has made: http://www.whois-barack-obama.com
Even the hardiest of sweet-tooth’s will grow tired of empty calorie ice cream—and even the simplest mind will grow tired and weary of “Thank You…Thank- You (finger point), love me ‘Amerucaca’ because I have a gift” mindset.
His “broadcast” are hardly news and the press corp is like mushy soap left in the water to long.
Honesty is has gotten so bad, that if I wanted to see fairy tales I would to to the Disney channel.
J.C.
It is the the lack of character and integrity of the educational system in this country. My cousin was a high school teacher for 35 years. She retired when the state began enforcing empty subjects in the classroom. My cousin said, “The children need to be taught the basics that build the proper working tools for survival and success in America. 3-R’s
The enforced subjects are Sex, Political Science, Environmentalism, and Socialism.
Beaner 49
I quite agree with you. The social construct in our society today is generally construed to be more about not having to take responsibility for countless human choices persons make daily and IMHO the dogged determination to remove any semblance religion from society.
I think this is one of the reasons there is such a deterioration ethics and moral values… and why society, as a whole, does not become outraged.
J.C.
The Lord endowed you with a firm foundation for quality of thought and expression.
Leadership through Integrity is fading fast from the general population. Hang on tight, we are in for a wild and especially chaotic ride.
So Mote It Be!
Beaner
Beaner…
Thanks but I think he just had an odd sense of humor 
Regards
That be good. There are too many walking to and fro upon the face of this earth who believe themselves to be the All Mighty. Humor makes life livable.
To the blind pen the hand that writes is unreal,
its writing unmeaning.
Rabindranth Tagore