Baltimore Sun Quotes CPD Director on Obama’s TV Presidency

CPD Director Philip Seib is quoted in the Baltimore Sun on Team Obama's use of nontraditional TV to reach diverse publics.




"It starts with the Obama presidency having a greater appreciation of the diversity of venues that are available for reaching the public," Seib says. "But presidential use of television really is an evolutionary thing."




Seib points to John F. Kennedy as the first to regularly use the televised news conference in his 1960 presidency.




"The technology was available for that during the Eisenhower years, but nobody really thought of it," Seib says.




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