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ABC was the only newscast to treat Barack Obama's so-called virtual town hall meeting as newsworthy--the q-&-a held at the White House with an online national audience. "In lieu of boarding carbon-unfriendly Air Force One to hold town hall meetings around the country, the President brought the mountain to Mohammed," was how Jake Tapper put it. Some 93,000 citizens submitted questions as e-mails or as videostreams. The session's major news was made by marijuana advocates, proposing legalization and taxation as an economic stimulus. Tapper quoted Obama's supercilious response: "I do not know what this says about the online audience. The answer is no."
In a week when Mexico's narcoviolence has been covered by six separate reports, we are still waiting serious coverage of the pros and cons of marijuana decriminalization on the nightly newscasts.
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