Flash! President Bush Says He Reads Papers
You may remember our Commander-In-Chief saying a few years ago that he didn't read the newspapers. He got whatever crucial current events that were needed to do his job through his aides (never mind that his aides were petrified to have to break the bad news to him, for fear of getting their heads bitten off) causing many to believe that the Administration operated from inside a bubble, governing according to their own set of facts.
Whether or not he's really reading the papers, you've got to wonder why, with just over two years left in his presidency, he's decided to make a big deal about this now. Or why the New York Times believes that because the President does it, millions of Americans are going to start reading the daily periodicals again. Bush's overwhelming failure to rapidly adapt his presidency to current events is eerily similar to what's happening to the newspapers as a medium. They've ignored the wave of technology that's rendering print obsolete the same way Bush has ignored the news in general, and now both are losing supporters at a similar pace.
Suddenly paying attention to the news isn't going to save this Administration any more than it's going to boost readership and save the newspaper industry. Whatever those parties are doing to try to right their ships now, it's a case of too little, way too late.
You may remember our Commander-In-Chief saying a few years ago that he didn't read the newspapers. He got whatever crucial current events that were needed to do his job through his aides (never mind that his aides were petrified to have to break the bad news to him, for fear of getting their heads bitten off) causing many to believe that the Administration operated from inside a bubble, governing according to their own set of facts.
Whether or not he's really reading the papers, you've got to wonder why, with just over two years left in his presidency, he's decided to make a big deal about this now. Or why the New York Times believes that because the President does it, millions of Americans are going to start reading the daily periodicals again. Bush's overwhelming failure to rapidly adapt his presidency to current events is eerily similar to what's happening to the newspapers as a medium. They've ignored the wave of technology that's rendering print obsolete the same way Bush has ignored the news in general, and now both are losing supporters at a similar pace.
Suddenly paying attention to the news isn't going to save this Administration any more than it's going to boost readership and save the newspaper industry. Whatever those parties are doing to try to right their ships now, it's a case of too little, way too late.
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