Sep 21 2009
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Another Example: White House Out of Touch
The NYT has a piece this morning highlighting the President’s appearing on five Sunday news chat-shows yesterday. In a notable (and intentional) slight, the White House declined to appear on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, and tried to take the high road in the process, according to the NYT:
“We figured Fox would rather show ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ than broadcast an honest discussion about health insurance reform,” a White House deputy press secretary told ABC News on Saturday.
Unfortunately for President Obama and his people, a quick check of the numbers shows an interesting fact: SYTYCDS has 6.5 million viewers per week, whereas Meet The Press (the #1 Sunday news-chat show) can only pull 3.24 million. Twice as many!
