Do you believe that Obama's news coverage is obsessive, or is it just me?

Considering that this is not just some local election, yeah, it is going to get covered a lot. They go a lot with what gets them the best ratings on the news. They are business people first, journalists second, and that pretty much goes for all of them, unless they are doing things for no profit.

I have been thinking the same thing and just do not understand it. They have not gone to all of this trouble with other innaugerations. I know this is historic but we all know that so they do not have to shove it down our throats all day and night. My husband was mad because he could not even watch HBO this weekend. It was mostly the innaugeration. All politicians are the same so it is not going to be any different.

The news covereage doesn't really bother me. Here in the UK we watch local news at 6 and national & international news from 6.30p.m. to 7 p.m. What irritates me the most is when they refer to Barack Obama as the first black President. The man is mixed race - he is NOT black. I intend to watch the inauguration tomorrow and hope that we get good coverage over here. Listening to the news I think the man has his work cut out for him. The whole world seems to be in an uproar. I would rather it be him than me trying to sort the mess.

I think his news coverage up to today has been very obsessive. But today I think it is acceptable because it is an important event, and it is also a historical time in history, so it does not bother me that all of television seems to have dedicated the day to this event. But Obama was getting a whole lot of press before this day, which was a little much.

The last few inaugurations the media was all over it two or three days before. I remember when Bush first was sworn in. It's the usual questions and comparisons about procedures, balls, gowns, attendance, and of course possible changes in politics. When I turned on the TV this morning and inauguration festivity reports were on all channels I had the same reaction as you did. I had to remind myself that usually around this time they are all over it reporting over the details, politics, international reactions, who is there, who refused,... I think we are just so tired of it because it's been so much. Obama's campaigns started two years ago. He has been in the news almost every day ever since. Pretty much every day for at least a year. Even after the election things didn't quiet down. It was as if he was already in office. So now being shown even more of the hoopla around him... well, fatigue does set in. The inauguration coverage in itself is not really obsessive at least not from the main channels. There are reports and coverages on channels and programs that wouldn't have cared about it in the past, I give you that. But in itself it's not really more this time around, it just feels like it. I give it another half a year. Then things will quiet down and people will start to take stock to see what really changed. The novelty will have worn off and the question will more be like "What have you done for me lately?" Other news will be more important.

tdavis, I too think that the news channels are getting a bit carried over with Obama's inauguration. It must be because they want to increase their viewership ratings. We already know what we wanted to know about Obama, the rest we will get to know as he tackles day to day issues. There's really no need for such obsessive media coverage.

I think it is as well. I thought it was obnoxious pre and during election with the obsession with idolizing Obama. I thought it was weird for how little we really know about him. Im definitely getting bored of the whole thing.

I've had enough of it too. We have a few movies dvr'd and shows and we will be watching them Tuesday night instead of all the re-runs for inauguration. As if 3-4 days of pre-inauguration coverage isn't enough, we get to watch it all over again Tuesday night? No thanks--I'll pass. Heck, I'm even passing on ALL the coverage. I think it IS obsessive and over the top. The money spent on this inauguration would be much better spent somewhere else.

I'm sick of it, and I don't even live in the US!

The word obsessive doesn't even begin to cover it. After the drooling and idolotry we saw durring the election, the win pushed things rigtht over the edge. Obama is being covered as almost messiahnic and it's SICKENING. This is someone we hired, to work for us, the american people, he is an employee, an elected servant and no more important that you or I. To asign seemingly diety status to such a man is reminesent of roman emperors or egyption pharo's. No other job in the country requires this much fan fare uopn being hired for it and this time around, it has gone way to far, it's embarrasing.

At lot of us are tired of it. It was a long election season this time around. The media has been eating and sleeping this election for two years now.We are all just ready for it be over already.

I am also tired of news coverage about Obama, it seems that people and the media want to canonize him early this time. The world is too excited with this man but I am not that very fanatic to judge him as a spectacular world leader right away. I will have to wait for the next three years is he is worthy of the post. I think the news coverage is super exaggerated. There are still worthy news around the town and not just the man who will swear his oath of office.