Obama Laments Media’s ‘Constant News Cycle,’ Hyping Every Crisis of Presidency

OBAMA: “The most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything’s a crisis, and everything’s –“
STEIN: “You’re not on Twitter.” (Laughter)
OBAMA: “Well, I’m not. But everything’s a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is — if it doesn’t get solved tomorrow, you know, your presidency is going off the rails. There must have been what, 15, 20 things that over the last seven years folks have said, ‘This is it. It’s over.’”