February 29, 2008
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2011
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Bob Garfield. |
| 0:07.1 | And I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 0:08.5 | Love is in the air and on the air on TV and the radio in the papers. |
| 0:13.7 | The media heart Obama. |
| 0:15.9 | Last weekend's Saturday Night Live offered a slightly exaggerated portrayal of this amorphu. |
| 0:21.7 | Our next question comes from Jorge Ramos. |
| 0:24.9 | Senator Obama, oh, my God, I'm so nervous. |
| 0:28.9 | I still can't believe I'm actually talking to you. |
| 0:32.0 | That's okay. |
| 0:33.4 | My question is, are you mad at me? |
| 0:40.0 | No, not at all. |
| 0:42.3 | Oh, good. |
| 0:43.6 | I was afraid you might be mad at me |
| 0:45.2 | because, you know, all the shilling for you |
| 0:46.8 | and my campaign coverage has been so obvious |
| 0:48.6 | and because I spend every night sitting in front of your house in a parked car. |
| 0:53.1 | In October of 2006, we talked with National Journal columnist Bill Powers about Obama mania, |
| 0:59.8 | and he assured us that the candidate was just passing through the first few of seven |
| 1:04.9 | defined media milestones as every candidate does, and that the press's passion for Obama would eventually |
| 1:11.7 | peter out. |
| 1:12.9 | But here we are a year and a half later, and powers concedes somewhat incredulously that the media |
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