The Media Navel Gazing To Come?

Phil Bronstein in the San Fran Chronicle blasts his colleagues for their fawning, non-substantive Obama coverage. It's too soon to tell if this is the opening shot in what we'll eventually be forced to endure from our increasingly self-obsessed media before there's any hope of balanced coverage regarding this administration.

Obviously, before they simply get around to doing what they're supposed to have been doing all along they'll eventually force us to endure weeks of questioning and hand wringing as to whether or not they've been doing "the right thing," as regards Obama. They are increasingly tedious, even at their best. Just get on with it, dammit. Do what you're paid to do - your jobs. And spare us the op-eds, panels and snewze analysis of what's really going on, why and how it happened, blah, blah, blah.

The public figured it all out a long time ago. Catch up and stop wasting our time.

And they wonder why their revenues and audience numbers have tanked in recent years. Geesh!

When Barack Obama decided that questions from the German press about his trip agenda in that country were too pesky, he told the reporters, "So, stop it all of you!" He just wanted them to ask things he wanted to talk about. Well, what politico wouldn't want that?

OK, dad. We'll behave.

And according to a new Pew Research Center poll, we are behaving...like fans. On domestic press, it showed that "President Barack Obama has enjoyed substantially more positive media coverage than either Bill Clinton or George W. Bush during their first months in the White House" with "roughly twice as much" Obama coverage about his "personal or leadership qualities" than was the case for either previous president.

Comments

[North Dallas Thirty]

This is no different than a manager who hires a patently-unqualified individual because of their skin color.

Expect nothing but glowing reports which become progressively more desperate-sounding as the person's incompetence manifests themselves.

Eventually, one of two things will happen:

-- Liberal brainwashing will overpower common sense and we'll get the "Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia" (which we're already seeing in flickers like Olbermann and Maddow).

-- The zeal of the converted, in which those who before could find nothing wrong with Obama now will be able to find nothing right.

By and large, I expect the first. People who have spent years screaming that anyone who criticizes the Obamamessiah is a "racist" are not going to let that one drop easily.

[mark l.]

lessons from 9/11?

in the face of a crisis, the country will leap at an(y) opportunity to fix the unsufferable condition, regardless of the solution.

condition fades? we forget about the reasons for the actions and obsess over the failure of the actions we decided on to fix the inital problem.

obama's policy is built to 'respond' to our current financial situation. if he doesn't fix it, he fails. if he is successful, then we forget about what brought us to the brink of banking failure, and move on to the incredibly bad solutions we sought out to fix the crisis.

bush had a significant window, but somewhere between march 2003 and nov 2006(3.5 years), the political capital found in the public faded. In many ways, bush was fortunate that his reelction came 1.5 years after his 'solutions' were put in operation.

obama? if his plans fail, it's over. if his plan succeeds, his ability to survive his spending may not make it to nov 2012. I caught rassmussen with the gop holding a 45-39 advantage over dems on the economy...obama doesn't have 3.5 years. The axe for his 'solutions' may come as soon as 2010. The media did turn vicious on bush, under the premise that they didn't challenge him on Iraq in the run-up.

History is about to repeat itself.