{"id":14175,"date":"2014-11-21T00:08:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14175"},"modified":"2014-11-21T00:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T08:08:12","slug":"media-black-out-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/21\/media-black-out-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Black Out Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before this article is published, this will have already happened, but Obama is not due to begin speaking for another hour and a half.  Even though Republicans consider the topic so important that they are threatening impeachment, government shutdown, and sandbox temper tantrums, the big four networks, the so-called liberal<\/em> media, will be elsewhere.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1121obama\"Early in his first term, President George W. Bush  addressed the nation<\/a> in primetime about allowing for limited stem cell research in America and his approval for limited medical research. During the weeks leading up to the announcement, there had a been regular news coverage of the topic, as the White House let reporters know the president was deeply engaged on the issue and was meeting with an array of experts to guide him. <\/p>\n

As Bush appeared from his ranch in Texas to make the announcement, all of the major broadcast networks joined the cable news channels in carrying his message live. <\/p>\n

The stem cell speech didn’t address breaking news and it wasn’t about an imminent threat facing the nation. But at the time, network executives said they were happy to air the address. "I don’t think it was a tough call because it’s an issue that’s received so much attention," CBS News spokeswoman Sandy Genelius told the Boston Globe. ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider agreed: "It’s an important issue and one that the country is following closely." He added that Bush was "going to make news" with the speech. <\/p>\n

A decade later the rules seem to have shifted. All four networks  have announced<\/a> they won’t carry President Obama’s address to the nation tonight about his long awaited plan to take executive action to deal with the pressing issue of immigration reform<\/strong>. (Two Spanish language networks, Univision and Telemundo, will carry the address live in primetime.) \u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Admittedly, this won\u2019t be the first time the four networks have ducked covering a Presidential address, but considering the import of the topic, I can\u2019t help but wonder what they would be doing, if a white Republican President were addressing the nation on a highly controversial issue.<\/font><\/p>\n

For those of you who missed the address, I will try to find the complete video tomorrow and post it shortly after midnight on Saturday.morning.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before this article is published, this will have already happened, but Obama is not due to begin speaking for another hour and a half.  Even though Republicans consider the topic so important that they are threatening impeachment, government shutdown, and sandbox temper tantrums, the big four networks, the so-called liberal media, will be elsewhere. Early […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}