The recent YouTube interview of President Obama hosted by online stars, Bethany Mota, GloZell Green and Hank Green has been making the rounds with all of the traditional media outlets and raising eyebrows as it has circulated.
Media critic and host Howard Kurtz told Fox News that he believed that the interview was beneath the office of the President of the United States.
“When did eating milk and cereal out of your bathtub become an audition to interview the President of the United States?” Kurtz said on “The Kelly File,” referring to viral video personality GloZell Green.
“He’s got a good sense of humor, that’s a political asset, but it just seemed beneath the dignity of the office to be hanging out with some of these YouTubers,” he said.
Even CNN described the interview as “weird.”
“I think there’s a fair argument that the White House needs these YouTube personalities more than they need the White House,” MSNBC host Ronan Farrow said.“These three people collectively have 13 million regular subscribers. GloZell, her most popular video eating cinnamon out of a ladle, racked up more than 42 million views, Jose. That’s not the kind of viewership you get in TV any more. By comparison, 31.7 million watched Tuesday’s State of the Union on traditional TV. That’s the lowest TV viewership for a State of the Union in 15 years, according to Nielson data we got in.”
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