Obama's Fireside Chats

As we discussed today, in the mid 1800s the White House had its own paper through which it expressed its views.  As times change, the mode through the President expresses his views to the people changes.  FDR had his fireside chats, and apparently President Obama has a weekly address which is available on whitehouse.gov.  What I find interesting in comparing the mode Jackson used in the 1830s, what FDR did in the 1930s and 40s, and what Obama does today, is that until I looked on the White House website to look for something interesting to blog about, I didn't know that these Obama weekly addresses were happening.  As far as I knew, the only time Obama addressed the public is when its on the major news networks.  Whats interesting about this, is that since it isn't picked up by the major news outlets, there is very little commented on what the President says in these weeks addresses, which makes them completely unimportant, especially compared to the official newspapers in Jackson's times and the fireside chats in FDR's times.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/weekly-address
In case you wanna see this address by the President.