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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The ratings are in from President Barack Obama's prime-time news conference last week, and the numbers justify the Fox network's decision to skip broadcasting the president's address. The Fox drama "Lie to Me" drew eight million viewers, outpacing NBC's Obama coverage by over one million viewers. Overall, close to 29 million viewers watched the president on ten channels, including the cable news networks. The total viewership for the news conference was down almost 50% from Obama's first televised news conference, and down nearly 30% from his March event. Fox News did cover the president, and ...
Presidential press conferences have a rote quality to them-our current president has a habit, for example, of taking questions from 13 reporters, as he did Wednesday night-but President Obama's First Hundred Days' prime time news conference in the East Room had just enough unscripted moments to make it interesting and instructive. ...
After watching the president's 100-day news conference, my biggest impression is that he has finally settled into his office. He gave a very assured, calm and competent performance (that latter point will surely be disputed by conservatives), that made for, yes, rather boring television. Maybe FOX was right to skip this thing, after all. On the other hand, many people will feel reassured by what they saw tonight. Here is a president who is making the best of the hand he has been dealt. He's working hard, and he's starting to really feel comfortable at the podium. In other words, tomorrow's ...
The White House says that President Barack Obama plans to address the nation and take questions from the media next Wednesday in the third prime-time news conference of his 100-day old presidency. The president earlier held news conferences in February and March. While the first two were called so that Obama could press for passage of his economic stimulus package and to update the country on the state of the economy, this news conference seems to have no political purpose other than to mark the president's 100th day in office. President Obama is personally very popular, and has been the ...
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