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The Obama infatuation is a great unreported story of our time...Our political system works best when a president faces checks on his power. But...the press -- on domestic, if not foreign, policy -- has so far largely abdicated its role as skeptical observer.
Obama has inspired a collective fawning...Unlike George Bush and Bill Clinton, Obama received favorable coverage in both news columns and opinion pages...
...The infatuation matters because Obama's ambitions are so grand...Are his proposals practical, even if desirable? Maybe they're neither? What might be the unintended consequences?...
...The cause of this acquiescence isn't clear...the deeper explanation may be as straightforward as this: Most journalists like Obama; they admire his command of language; he's a relief after Bush; they agree with his agenda (so it never occurs to them to question basic premises); and they don't want to see the first African American president fail.
...The press has become Obama's silent ally and seems in a state of denial. But the story goes untold: Unsurprisingly, the study of all the favorable coverage received little coverage.
Here in Israel, with Bibi, it's the same but just the other way around.
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