FDR talks to the press; the press talks to FDR
I was only slightly confounded to realize I had no interest in watching the speech last night; didn’t even think about recording it in case it turned out POTUS actually said something. When it comes to a corporate one-party state, I guess I make a bad subject.
And I’m old-fashioned: As unsatisfying as they may almost always have been, I still have some good memories of actual Presidential news conferences. Not recalling the last time I had heard of one, this morning I went on line looking and found that Obama hasn’t had a press conference in six months.
Transparently nontransparent.
[image from swamppolitics]