Analysis of the Obama Speech

From AMERICAblog Joe Subday writes, "While we know someone at the White House,spent part of the weekend dissing progressive activists and bloggers, I found it interesting that many in the traditional media used blogs as sources for their reporting on the President's big gay speech." Arguing that while the Obama Administration denounces blogs as sources, the media still uses them as credible sources.

Posted on 10/12/09, Analysis of the Obama speech in the traditional media, tells us that while these sources are being discredited in the White House, still alot of people look to them for sources or answers.For example this quote in the Washington Post from gay rights activist and editor of AMERICAblog.com John Aravosis,"Many gay rights activists are disappointed that Obama has not moved forward on two major issues: ending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, under which gay soldiers can be discharged for their sexual orientation; and his failure to work toward ending the Defense of Marriage Act." This reporter didn't talk to John directly, he found the quote in a blog post. Joe Subday's audience is of course readers of AMERICAblog.com, people who are for gay rights, and people who want President Obama to answer those tough questions that need to be answered. I think that this was a good post about how the White House can easily dismiss anything they see harms them, but we as a nation still look to those credible sources for answers or insight. I agree with Joe 100%, President Obama needs to start answering the tough questions and not just circling around it, giving us misleading questions. He needs to start living up to those campaign promises and just not tell us what he's going to do. He needs to do it. I think this was a really credible post, I didn't find anything that struck me out of the ordinary. All in all, this was a very good post and I enjoyed reading it.