10 September, 2013

I don't get the meta going on here - it was an adult speech that had no news value to a high-volume news consumer

White House tweets to blunt speech critics - Dylan Byers - POLITICO.com: President Barack Obama’s Syria address was widely panned by leading foreign policy journalists on Tuesday night, leading to an intense pushback effort by top White House spokespeople on Twitter.

In messages directed at journalists from The New York Times, Bloomberg and other outlets, the White House communications team sought to wrest control of the narrative going forward even as the speech was being criticized as among the most ineffective in the history of the American presidency.