President Barack Obama's State Of The Union Address 2011 was a rousing success, as Democrats and Republicans sat together in an effective show of togetherness, and Obama set the right tone for "Winning The Future."
The speech was more than politically effective, it dominated social networks, especially Twitter. The SOTU represented, at one point, seven of the top ten Twitter Trends. The most popular of them was #sotu and "Nation Builders," referring to Obama's call to think of American Teachers as just that.
CNN Can Do Better, MSNBC was great
The State Of The Union Address was excellent, but CNN's after-speech coverage was terrible. They had the usual talking heads, but when Erick Erickson went on a "well I'm conservative" rant taking us back to President Grant and issuing mindless musings about failed government-private partnerships, I changed the channel to MSNBC.
What MSNBC provides that CNN does not are interviews with elected officials after the speech, fielding questions from their pundits, including Eugene Robinson, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Chris Matthews, who looked as if he was upset that he wasn't in the center chair that Maddow occupied. That aside, the MSNBC approach was more effective and less annoying than CNN's "ranting heads" strategy.
The speech was more than politically effective, it dominated social networks, especially Twitter. The SOTU represented, at one point, seven of the top ten Twitter Trends. The most popular of them was #sotu and "Nation Builders," referring to Obama's call to think of American Teachers as just that.
robertamiller Robert A. Miller
Characterizing teachers as "nation builders" is excellent positioning. As a country, we need to build on this. It's a "what counts" factor.
1 minute ago
KeithTrivitt Keith Trivitt
W/ a brother who is a teacher, I was very happy to see Obama say it's time to treat teachers w/ more respect & as "nation builders" #sotu
16 minutes ago
Fabulouskb KBoo
Teachers are Nation Builders!!!
23 minutes ago
MMcKone Mariel Leonard
@DavidJandura is schooling USAID in twitter RT Nation builders in school? Tweet that part USAID! #SOTU
23 minutes ago
jnetk0z Jeanette Kozlowski
RT @loriguffey: #Obama: treat teachers as the nation builders they are. reward good, no excuses for bad. #ovation #SOTU
24 minutes ago
CNN Can Do Better, MSNBC was great
The State Of The Union Address was excellent, but CNN's after-speech coverage was terrible. They had the usual talking heads, but when Erick Erickson went on a "well I'm conservative" rant taking us back to President Grant and issuing mindless musings about failed government-private partnerships, I changed the channel to MSNBC.
What MSNBC provides that CNN does not are interviews with elected officials after the speech, fielding questions from their pundits, including Eugene Robinson, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Chris Matthews, who looked as if he was upset that he wasn't in the center chair that Maddow occupied. That aside, the MSNBC approach was more effective and less annoying than CNN's "ranting heads" strategy.