President Obama's Press Conference on Tax Cuts
”Iunderstand the desire for a fight. I'm sympathetic to that. I'm as
opposed to the high-end tax cuts today as I've been for years…And when
they expire in two years, I will fight to end them” – President Obama
As far as we could tell, C-Span was the only television coverage of President Obama's entire press conference Tuesday where he explained his thinking on the tax cut deal with the GOP. As this blog has pointed out before in our discussion on the need for media reform, broadcasters are no longer compelled to provide public interest programming LINK and they apparently don't deem a presidential press conference newsworthy. [also of interest: a very good post on DailyKos on media black out of President Obama's 2010 rallies]
So unless you have sought out the complete 35 minute video on a website, or you happened to catch it on C-Span, you have likely only seen the snippets that the corporate media want to talk about and a lot of highly charged pundit reactions, most of the ire directed at President Obama, not the GOP, (except for Lawrence O'Donnell who very forcefully and persuasively blames Blanche Lincoln) and mostly TV-friendly sound bytes, designed to excite advertisers, not to inform.
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