Obama's Inauguration and the Media Coverage

Yesterday, one of the most historic events in United States history happened as Barack Obama, the nations 44th president, and first African American president, was sworn into office beginning his much anticipated presidency since he was elected two months ago. The moment was so historic, and was covered by all sorts of media outlets. Because there were so many people there to see the event first hand, the media still needed to cover the story with great detail and passion as there were many people across the nation who wanted to watch the event, but could not make it down to Washington D.C. It was all over the place as it was on every single news channel possible (flipping through the few channels that I have in the dorm rooms, all I saw was the same image of Obama giving his inauguration speech or the millions of people who lined the streets of Washington D.C.), and also had much Internet and radio coverage. I watched about the last five minutes of his speech as I woke up after he started, but to be perfectly honest, I did not care all that much. I have been hearing so much about this day for so long now, I think the anticipation kind of wore me out. It is great to see the first African American president be inaugurated to this great nation, and will set the table for future presidents such as possibly our first woman president, or another president of another race. Even though I did not watch the event, I believe that there was enough coverage for this, as there were many people across the nation that were very interested in this. Obama has many supporters across the country, and these people needed the right to see history happen first hand. The American media did what it had to do to get the proper coverage of this story.