It Doesn't Matter What the Media Thinks of Obama's YouTube Interviews
US President Barack Obama participates in an interview with YouTube and Google from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 30, 2012, as seen on a laptop in the Brady Press Briefing Room. The interview, held through a Google+ Hangout, marks the first completely virtual interview of a US President from the White House. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Photographer: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty ImagesLike the “Between Two Ferns” interview last year, President Obama’s YouTube discussion has set off a debate about whether the President of the United States should be interviewed by social media stars.
“Now look, Megyn, I’m not some old media curmudgeon saying that Obama shouldn’t go on Ellen or The View or Colbert,” Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz told Megyn Kelly on her show Thursday night. “But it just seemed beneath the dignity of the office to be hanging out with some of these YouTubers.” Kurtz and Kelly focused on 52-year-old black comedian GloZell Green, and the segment heavily featured Glozell’s two and a half year old cereal bath stunt.