Obama Says Splintered Media Blocks New Obama-Like Politicians 18 Years After 2008 Rise
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 30
Obama Says Splintered Media Blocks New Obama-Like Politicians 18 Years After 2008 Rise
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 30
Summary
Barack Obama said on NBC host Craig Melvin’s podcast that today’s fragmented media makes it harder for a new national political figure like him to emerge.
2004 network coverage of his Democratic convention speech turned him into a national figure before he had even taken office as a U.S. senator, he said, arguing that shared media once gave rising politicians a single breakout stage.
Obama said many people are as gifted as or more gifted than he was, but politics and media have not yet given them the platform or spotlight to break through.
The remarks extend themes from the June 19 opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, where the 44th president cast the U.S. as an unfinished democratic project ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary.