President Obama turned media critic during his Sunday show marathon, zinging television news during interviews on CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC for making stars out of people who are "rude." Obama wants bookers to reward "decency" and "civility" in public discourse.
We'll see.
Obama seemed determined to make this point because the president used remarkably similar language during his interviews with Sunday morning show hosts, deploring the state of discourse, especially on cable news shows.
Obama, who also sat down with Univision, snubbed the outlet where many of his loudest critics have found a perch -- Fox News Channel.
The interviews were taped back-to-back Friday afternoon in the Roosevelt room of the White House. When I walked by the Roosevelt Room earlier on Friday en route to an interview with an Obama official in the West Wing, the room looked like a television studio, stuffed with lights, wires, cameras and other equipment.
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