@RBPundit @EricBoehlert – Pouty face. Sad trombones.
— 82Brew (@rodgers_jeff) November 20, 2014
If you were hoping to catch President Obama’s big executive amnesty announcement on one of the big English-language broadcast networks tonight, well, you’re outta luck. You’ll have to tune in to Telemundo or Univision.
And Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert is so mad, he could just bite his pillow:
DC press: Obama's exec order is going cause incredible tumult for weeks/mos to come. TV nets: Obama address isn't news. #journalism
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 20, 2014
This is proof that the media hate Obama!
Network News' Shameful Decision To Snub Obama's Immigration Address; http://t.co/vCS3xOzDHn #mmfa
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 20, 2014
when Bush gave stem cell speech, ABC/CBS/FOX/NBC gladly aired it in primetime. Obama and immigration? not interested. http://t.co/vCS3xOzDHn
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 20, 2014
TV networks cop-out? Obama's address "too political." so if GOP disagrees w/ Obama, networks run scared??? http://t.co/vCS3xOzDHn #libmedia
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 20, 2014
GOP: we might impeach Obama over exec order. TV nets: Obama's exec order speech isn't news; http://t.co/vCS3xOzDHn
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 20, 2014
Recommended
read quotes from ABC/CBS execs re: Bush stem cell speech and how it was such easy decision to air it in primetime; http://t.co/vCS3xOzDHn
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 20, 2014
recap: Obama's exec order might lead to govt shutdown or even impeachment. but TV nets says tonight's not newsworthy; http://t.co/vCS3xOzDHn
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 20, 2014
Nice try, Eric, but no.
As The Washington Post notes, the president’s 8 p.m. announcement comes at a particularly opportune time for reaching a “captive audience of Hispanic television viewers”: the 15th annual Latin Grammys, which airs on Univision starting at 7 p.m. Last year around 9.8 million viewers tuned into the awards ceremony. Univision is doing its part to make sure the president’s message reaches its millions of viewers by temporarilypostponing the show to broadcast Obama’s address.
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Though Politico reports that the White House is “exasperated” that the big English-speaking networks “snubbed” the announcement, the same report reveals that the Obama administration didn’t bother sending the standard formal request for coverage to networks Wednesday. Instead, the White House simply posted an announcement of the message on its Facebook page—perhaps the first such announcement of its kind.
Welp.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/535480636627513345
@RBPundit @EricBoehlert I really think that Obama didnt want the networks to carry it.
— BitterKlinger (@Ohio_Grassman) November 20, 2014
Of course not. It's all a ploy. RT @Ohio_Grassman @RBPundit @EricBoehlert I really think that Obama didnt want the networks to carry it.
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 20, 2014
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