As we all know Barack Obama had a meet and greet at UNH on Monday night. NECN news covered the event on their 10:00 pm news segment, but unfortunatley the media coverage did not focus on his stance about political issues. Instead, the reporters named his as charismatic and charming, but not much more. The only political matter that was hit on was that he opposes the war and he is using this to distance himself from Hillary Clinton as well as define himself. NECN also focused on his lack of experience and showed a clip of Obama saying "if you are voting for experience in Washington, you won't be voting for me" (this is probably not the exact quote, but close). In another news segement over the weekend, the coverage of Hillary Clinton was about the same, there was no news on her political stance, only that she was greeting citizens, looked well, and was humurous.
From these two instances, I believe that the media is falling into the "no news" sector of reporting way too early in the campaign for the most prestigeous job in our country. Perhaps it is the case that Clinton and Obama are not stating their stance on political matters, other than the safe "opposing of the war", or perhaps the media thinks viewers are more interested in how the candidates act and look. Either way, for those of you who went to the Obama meet and greet I would like to know if he did indeed take any stances on political matters other than the war or if the media is correct and there is nothing more to report.
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Good observation, but I am not so sure it is classifiable as "no news", which would mean it would avoid reporting on the event at all. This is probably a good example of "new news" in which focus is on the personality rather than the substance.
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