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FOX Outdraws Obama
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe 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 ...
"Lie to Me" Beats Obama
By Dave - Politics DailyTime Net Show 18-49 Rating/Share 18-34 Rating/Share Viewers (Millons) 8:00 FOX Lie to Me 2.4/7 2.1/7 7.88 CW America's Next Top Model 1.8/6 2.1/7 4.00 ABC President Obama Press Conference 1.6/5 1.4/5 6.12 CBS President Obama Press Conference 1.5/5 0.9/3 6.01 NBC President Obama Press Conference 1.6/5 1.1/4 6.68 ...
Fox Will Not Cover Obama News Conference
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIt was bound to happen sooner or later. And with President Obama requesting time in prime-time for the third month in a row, for little to no newsworthy reason, the Fox Broadcasting Company has become the first network to forgo covering an Obama new conference. In a statement released today, Fox said that it would air regularly scheduled programming instead. "The Fox Broadcasting Company will not air the Presidential News Conference on Wednesday, April 29 at 8:00 PM. Fox's sister networks, Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network will air the press conference in its entirety. Fox will be ...
Obama Threatens to Bump Lost
By Dave - Politics Daily...which will run dangerously close to the next Lost episode.Fox sticking with schedule instead of ObamaThe Fox network is sticking with its regular schedule over President Barack Obama this week.The network is turning down the president's request to show his prime-time news conference on Wednesday. The news conference marks Obama's 100th day in office. Instead of the president, Fox viewers will see an episode of the Tim Roth drama "Lie to Me."It's the first time a broadcast network has refused Obama's request. This will be the third prime-time news conference in Obama's presidency. ABC, CBS ...
To Blunt Criticism, Obama Makes a TelePrompTer Move
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a sure sign that it has been stung by criticism of President Barack Obama's over-reliance on a TelePrompTer, the White House made a change in location for the device for the president's prime time press conference last night. Gone were the familiar dual glass panels on either side of the podium from which Obama is so adroit at reading prepared remarks, and which have been popping up in more and more news photos of him. Instead, the president delivered his opening remarks reading from a flat panel placed at the back of the room.The move allowed Obama to offer his remarks while looking ...
Obama the Sock Puppet
By Dave - Politics DailyThe American Spectator : In All FairnessOne wouldn't know it from reading the Washington Post or New York Times, but some inside the White House don't think that President Barack Obama hit a home run with his first national press conference last week. "It looked scripted beyond the scripted part, the speech," says one former communications adviser, who has been feeding notes and suggestions to the White House team and worked with them on the inauguration. "Every president has gone into one of these things knowing that there were some pre-arranged questions or journalists to be called on, but ...
Obama and Me: Our First Time - Updated: More Newness
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate: I've posted additional commentary, video, and photos at Jay Allbritton's blog, Ice Station Tango. We will also dissect the press conference further, and talk about the rest of the week's news, on Unusable Signal tonight. The show starts at 11pm EDT. AOL has already gotten 8 wonky paragraphs out of me about last night's press conference. Now, it's my turn. This one is for me. You see, last night was historic for more than one person. I know, I know, Barack this, Obama that, but it was also my first prime time news conference. I'm sure President Obama would have liked to have kept our ...
Obama's Post Post-Partisan Press Conference
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama's first prime-time news conference featured a president and a White House making every use of the bully pulpit to advocate for the Administration's policies. Gone were the pretenses of bi-partisanship, as President Obama adopted more of a "my way or no way" tone on the economic stimulus bill. From his opening remarks to his long-winded and often unfocused answers, the president was on the attack against Republicans and Republican ideas, abandoning his campaign pledge to listen to good ideas no matter where they may come from just three weeks into his presidency.Echoes of ...
The Audacity and The Depression
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyBarack Obama as president has a lot of audacity -- but what happened to the hope? During last night's press conference, Obama simultaneously managed to scaremonger, depress us, talk down the economy, remind everyone (once again) that he "won," and mock those of us who believe in free market economics vs. Keynesianism (conservative economic "theories have been tested and they have failed," he dismissively said)... Instead of "morning in America," he gave us "mourning in America."... Instead of "nothing to fear but fear itself," Obama gave us lots to fear...unless, of course, we do exactly what ...
Obama Press Conference Post-Game
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI'm just about to head back to Jersey, but I wanted to give my quick impressions of this press conference, my first in the White House.There wasn't a lot of really new stuff here, aside from the "depressing" news about A-Rod. The one thing I took note of was that he stressed the idea that he had inherited this mess, more than I've heard it before. He also revisited several of the statements he made at the Democrats' congressional retreat.He also returned to the theme of bi-partisanship, re-framing the slender support for this bill as Republicans needing to break old habits, that they'll come ...
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