Shocker: Media Doesn’t Broadcast Obama’s Press Conference On Blagojevich
It apparently wasn’t as newsworthy as the news conference where he announced the new Secretary of Commerce. Or even newsworthy enough to interrupt “The Price is Right.”
ABC was the only network to break into its daytime programming on Thursday with live coverage of Barack Obama’s press conference regarding the Wednesday arrest of Illinois’s Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich. Neither CBS nor NBC interrupted regular programming to cover the press conference, during which Obama also named former Senator Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services secretary.
This lack of coverage is particularly odd because both CBS and NBC featured live coverage of past significant Obama press conferences.
What the public doesn’t know won’t hurt them, I guess.
