Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Obama’s news conference - like watching paint dry but 50 million watch

(Csmoniter).No, it wasn’t the most exciting thing you could ever watch.
It wasn’t like a spectacular car chase, or that evolution of dance video, or what’s been called the greatest moment in sporting history (except if you were rooting for the USSR), but it wasn’t supposed to be entertaining.
Still, nearly 50 million people (49.5) tuned in to watch President Obama’s first prime time press conference Monday night on eight networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Univision, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC).

How does this compare to other presidential news conferences? It wasn’t a record breaker.
President Clinton had 64.3 million people watch his first press conference in 1993. And 64.8 million tuned for President George W. Bush’s prime time address following the 9/11 attacks in October 2001.

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