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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 02:15 PM Aug 2014

Obama: Media makes you think ‘world is falling apart’

President Obama on Friday said social media and the nightly news are partly to blame for the sense that “the world is falling apart.”

"I can see why a lot of folks are troubled," Obama told a group of donors gathered at a Democratic National Committee barbecue in Purchase, N.Y.

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“The world’s always been messy ... we’re just noticing now in part because of social media,” he said, according to a White House pool report.

“If you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world is falling apart,” said Obama.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/216281-media-makes-you-think-world-is-falling-apart

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