We Are All Americans... Apparently
Jan. 21st, 2009 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofelevenI had a very snarky post written up concerning the Obama inauguration, but I thought better of it and didn’t post it.
One thing though – did tonight’s news really need to be 95%+ inauguration? I’m fairly sure they didn’t devote this much time to Kevin Rudd’s swearing in. Hard as it may be to remember, Obama is, in fact, a foreign head of state, not the new World-Emperor.
And if you are going to devote that much time to a foreign change of government, at least offer some analysis? Some context? Something more than “Wow, there’s a lot of people in Washington” and “People elsewhere in the US watched the inauguration… on TV! Wow!”. Closest to actual reporting we got was one idiot ‘expert’ explaining that Obama plans on focusing on ‘smart power’. Well, that’ll be a welcome change, but that doesn’t exactly mean anything unless you explain what he’s planning on achieving with that power, yes?
One thing though – did tonight’s news really need to be 95%+ inauguration? I’m fairly sure they didn’t devote this much time to Kevin Rudd’s swearing in. Hard as it may be to remember, Obama is, in fact, a foreign head of state, not the new World-Emperor.
And if you are going to devote that much time to a foreign change of government, at least offer some analysis? Some context? Something more than “Wow, there’s a lot of people in Washington” and “People elsewhere in the US watched the inauguration… on TV! Wow!”. Closest to actual reporting we got was one idiot ‘expert’ explaining that Obama plans on focusing on ‘smart power’. Well, that’ll be a welcome change, but that doesn’t exactly mean anything unless you explain what he’s planning on achieving with that power, yes?
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on 2009-01-21 12:26 pm (UTC)and some of us might be interested in the snarky post too?!
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on 2009-01-21 01:13 pm (UTC)Only bit of it I remember was "Did you know that Obama is the first black president? I did not, so it is a good thing they repeated that every two and a half minutes! I never would have guessed!"