Media Critic-in-Chief

An indication of Obama's media diet:

A writer before he was a politician, Mr. Obama is a voracious consumer of news, reading newspapers and magazines on his iPad and in print and dipping into blogs and Twitter. He regularly gives aides detailed descriptions of articles that he liked, and he can be thin-skinned about those that he does not.

Even though George Bush is known to be widely-read, his frightening/hilarious remark about 'reading the headlines' only perpetuated the (at least partly accurate) perception of him as a president who is uninformed, incurious, and apparently quite proud of both qualities. But it contrasts even better with Sarah Palin's response to a reporter who asked which newspapers she read. She seemed to think it was a trick question.