Media experts conclude they are doing a great job covering Obama

It’s obviously a no-brainer that a President with such an active schedule and agenda is getting a lot of coverage.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Constant news coverage of President Barack Obama since he took office less than three months ago is warranted considering the economic crisis facing the country, panelists at a media symposium said Wednesday.

“Obama’s doing it all at once so our judgments are coming at a fast and furious rate,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said before a panel discussion called “Obama and the Press: Is the media doing its job?” at Texas Christian University.

TCU graduate Bob Schieffer, CBS News’ chief Washington correspondent and “Face the Nation” moderator, said he ran out of time for his questions during an interview with Obama recently.

Schieffer, who moderated the fifth annual Schieffer Symposium, said it reminded him “how serious the problems are that we face today, and how many different problems that this president is having to deal with.”

I just wonder if said panelists took a look at how they cover actual issues. Every American knows who Barack Obama is, but very few have the vaguest clue what he’s doing, why he’s doing it, or what even is wrong with the economy and two concurrent wars. The media continues to do a fabulous job of keeping the nation almost completely ignorant of actual issues.

But give them a personality to cover, and they are all over it. Which is why we know everything about Britney Spears and zip about things like subprime mortgages or what’s happening in Afghanistan and Irag.

–WKW

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