{"id":2405,"date":"2009-07-21T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2009-07-21T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T19:40:56","slug":"obamas-healthcare-media-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/21\/obamas-healthcare-media-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s healthcare media blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2406\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/health-care-symbol-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"health-care-symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/health-care-symbol-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/health-care-symbol-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/health-care-symbol.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>In an effort to get Congress to pass a healthcare reform bill by the August recess, President Obama has launched a <a title=\"media blitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/linkset\/2005\/04\/11\/LI2005041100587.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">media blitz <\/a>to push his agenda, including a prime-time news conference tomorrow night.\u00a0 Political communications expert Professor <a title=\"Tobe Berkovitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/tobe_berkovitz.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tobe Berkovitz<\/a>, associate dean of the College of Communication, says Obama may have overused the microphone.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Unfortunately for the White House spin machine, the voters are not in the same buying mood that permitted the fast tracking of many early Obama administration initiatives.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Tobe Berkovitz, 617-353-3447, <a href=\"mailto:tobetv@bu.edu\">tobetv@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to get Congress to pass a healthcare reform bill by the August recess, President Obama has launched a media blitz to push his agenda, including a prime-time news conference tomorrow night.\u00a0 Political communications expert Professor Tobe Berkovitz, associate dean of the College of Communication, says Obama may have overused the microphone. &#8220;Unfortunately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1488,1104,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}