Coming to your TV: More Obama healthcare blitz
Brace yourself, the Obama TV blitz on healthcare is about to kick into a higher gear Wednesday and Thursday. Team Obama is launching its greatest TV weapon -- the president himself in one-on-one interviews.
Both NBC and CBS will have interviews conducted by their medical-doctor health correspondents on the nightly newscasts Wednesday.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman will be interviewing President Obama on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, while Dr. Jon LaPook will be talking to Obama for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
(Pictured Dr. Nancy Snyderman)
But that's not all. Snyderman's interview will also air Thursday on the Today show, as well as on Snyderman's mid-day program on MSNBC.
Can an ABC News announcement be that far off? I wonder if the president will talk about healthcare while he's in the booth at baseball's all-star game.
(UPDATE Wednesday 5 p.m.: Well, it came a little late, but ABC announced that Obama will be on World News and Nightline Wednesday and Good Morning America Thursday talking healthcare with Dr. Timothy Johnson. Headline from Z: President scores hat trick.)
At least, the White House isn't playing the "exclusive" game this week -- using exclusivity as a carrot to try and get favorable coverage or a slamdunk interview in which the president gets to sell his agenda with no hard questions from the correspondent.
Between Congressional resistance to sweeping healthcare reform and a growing sense in the country that the president's financial stimulus efforts have taken care of the big money gang while more and more middle class Americans lose their jobs and all hope of ever getting them back, look for a lot more face time on TV from the man in the White House.
Except on Fox News, I guess. At least, so far.
Comments
I hope Katie Couric has some solid questions. I like Dr. Snyderman okay, but why was she picked? They really need more selection, find some obscure doctor's who are not well known and let them ask some point blank questions about healthcare, surprise they might get some real honest American answers they could use. This is what I would rather see. I really have not seen any progress from congress on moving forward with the healthcare plan, if they don't even like the plan that should tell us something, it needs an overhaul. Yes, I am one of those middle class Americans who would like to see some progress and less TV face time. The deficit is over a trillon dollars now, I don't think a second stimulus is going to work. It's really very scary.
This is going to be a long day.
Posted by: Sherry T. | July 15, 2009 9:50 AM
Is a hat trick like a triple play? I guess Obama got that. Gosh I have to read these articles so closely or I miss these things sometimes I re-read them. Kind of like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Maybe thats how the healthcare plan will come about.
Posted by: Sherry T, | July 17, 2009 1:58 PM