Obama gave some long winded answers

Heard --- an exchange between Barack Obama and Tim Russert just before "Meet the Press" was aired.

Russert : “How long does it take you to prepare a spontaneous answer if you are only given one minute to respond to a question ”?

Obama : “Two hours”,

Russert : “What about a two minute response ”?

Obama : “One hour”, he said.

Russert : “And if you are allowed 10 minutes to answer ”?

Obama blurts out : “I’m ready right now”!!

Russert : "Roll the cameras ! -- We have a whole hour !"

:rofl:

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Where's the dunce cap smilie when you need it?

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CIAO LOSER

IObama was great....Hillary is desperate and Miss NEOCON ELITIST Hillary is calling others elitist..LMAO!

when i was learning newswriting, half the battle was to shorten the text.

it was easier to create a one page version of a news story than to create it in 10 lines.

I've had to address this issue as a candidate. It's a pain in the backside to cram a nuanced, complex answer into a 30-60 second space.

just under 8000 words. My editor looked at me and said, "can you knock it down to a few paragraphs?" Brevity is best in media, especially with the current bumper sticker slogan mentality.

thanks to the web, more and more people seek out a story and follow all the links to figure out what it means and what it means in context --this is what the journalists and talking heads were supposed to do, but the mainstream media has done so poorly at it (mostly tv that is) that people have found alternatives AND the ability to think critically.

is allow bloggers to consolidate information. The bigger problem with blogs is that they are nothing more than the opinion of a single person, who is typically ill-informed. Bloggers do very little in the way of actual reporting, all they do is regurgitate something that someone else wrote or said. They might pin up a different opinion, but it's all from the same point of view. What bloggers fail to realize is that the writer of the original article has many more facts and quotes in front of them. The hardest part about being a reporter is figuring out what to leave out. Things are left out all the time due to space or time constraints, but just because they aren't printed or said doesn't mean they don't help shape the overall piece.

this is going on throughout society.

i remember this shift in my own work where we were trying to get public servants to provide their environmental data in real time when they'd been accustomed to providing not to the public but to others in related fields after 90 days of review. the resistance? amateurs would have unofficial data to do whatever they wanted with. my snide answer...so?

so for every Josh Marshall you get 10 knuckleheads, that's not the fault of this trend, that's just what the medium allows. i actually prefer having the access and different points of view and having to sift out the knuckleheads than the model of the Broders, the George Wills, the DC journalists interpreting everything for me and having little other real time information or reporting to judge things for myself.

it's about transparency and as good as journalism has been in the past and occasionally in recent years, it has not been transparent.

and almost all the good stuff lately has been using the newer form of incorporating blog type research and follow up with solid reporting by veteran reporters and writers.

never has been, never will be.

Earlier today I gave someone the e-mail address to the producer of Hardball. The person wanted to complain about Matthews' show on NBC. If she knew that I gave out her e-mail addy, do you think she would ever return another one of my e-mails? This is the kind of access that 99% of political bloggers do not have. Bloggers do not get seats in the White House briefing room, or get to ask questions, or get invited on Air Force One, or travel with candidates, and the few that do work for major news outlets. A blogger is not going to get a one on one interview with the Secretary of Defense, or a sit down with a Senator.

You point out Josh Marshall, but to be fair, Josh Marshall wouldn't be where he is if it weren't for his work on The American Prospect. He was printed in the print medium before moving to the internet. He was able to take his credibility and transfer it to the internet.

You want to know where the future is going? It's fairly simple. Circulation of hard print newspapers is down, within the next twenty years all newspapers will be electronic only.

Right now, blogs are expanding in popularity and size, but it will only last until it hits critical mass and the major corporations figure out to produce large amounts of revenue from it.

All the "knuckleheads" will be pushed out of the electronic news medium as will the Josh Marshalls' of the internet. Anyone with a quality product and an ounce of credibility will be swallowed up by the large news corporations, just like what happened in television. ABC owns CNN, NBC owns MSNBC, Fox owns Fox, and CBS owns, well they're CBS.

Don't get me wrong, there are some good news/political blogs out there, but they're not going to last and many people don't take them seriously. The internet suffers from a credibility problem. We've all heard the saying that a few bad apples spoil the bunch, well the internet is more like a bunch of bad apples with a few good ones that have managed to survive, but people realize that you can't trust anything off the internet unless it's backed up by a big name corporation. If you get into an argument with someone from the opposite side of the spectrum and you're quoting TPM as a source, they're going to look at you and laugh, just like you would laugh after they point you to Ann Coulter or Michelle Mahlikai (or however you spell it).

People read blogs for one of two reasons, neither of which is to inform themselves. They read them to look for inaccuarcies from the opposing side, or to have their belief reaffirmed.

There an inverse exponential correllation between the length of a speech and the time required to prepare. (Anyone with experience in this area comprehends this. Only an idiot refuses to accept it.)

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Now, he's demolishing Hillary on this gas tax gimmick.

once you take out all the ummmmms and uuuuuhhhhhhs.

sentences!! He didn't sound bite when discussing the Clinton McCain gas tax holiday pandering! We cannot have that in a candidate! We need more pandering such as standing in the bed of a brand new pickup truck wearing an expensive pant suit!

Would you have preferred a "Hannity and Colmes" screaming match?

Obama gave clear concise answers

which is a hell of alot better

than the falsehoods and political pandering

of Hillary Clinton

or

the Nuclear Options she so clearly stated...

lets see, what was that word?

Oh yes...Obliterate...yes that was it... :nuke:

Yes this is...

:sarcasm:

we can get the whole answer as long as it takes on YouTube. we can get the whole transcript from MSNBC. a ton of news and blog outlets can provide full interviews with long and wide ranging discussions. people can skim 10 pages of that stuff in 2 minutes or they can read it carefully in 20 minutes.

i'm not longer at the mercy of the commercial break to get information on which to vote with.

he's going to be president for 4 or 8 years, if i want to do a good job of choosing him, i need to take more than 1 minute to listen to him on a given issue.

that is my job as the voter.

Eight years of Bush, and you're jealous of the smart guy???

Are they bitter AND ignorant, or bitter ABOUT being ignorant???

:evilgrin:

:hi:

LOL

lol, rofl

much like the SuperD's for Obama keep trickling in... so too does my ignore list grow!

BTW, welcome to DU... enjoy your time here... for however long it might be.

Better run him out of town quick.

Can't trust those dem der edumucated people.

On edit: Dey could be commies or pinkos.
:sarcasm:

my bullshit.

second sound bites to solve complex national issues.

Congratulations, your thread just lowered the national IQ.

I understand his answers. Short and to the point.

Obama suffers the long dreaded Democratic affliction of "Answering questions till they become questions in themselves and the audience forgot the question" syndrome.

that Harry S Truman had a conversation like that.

He was asked "How long does it take you to prepare a 5 minute speech?"
He said "About 2 hours"
"and a 10 minute speech?"
"3 hours"
"and a 2 hour speech?"
"well, if you're willing to let me ramble on for two hours, I'm ready now"