TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

President Obama did three interviews with YouTube stars last week. Was it beneath the dignity of the office? Howard Kurtz, the longtime media reporter analyst now with Fox News, says it was beneath the dignity of the office for President Obama to grant interviews with three YouTube stars. Now, I didn't see all the interviews, I can tell you. Hank Green, one of the stars, is one of the most interesting, clever people anywhere in the media. I don't mean just YouTube. I mean you can lump in broadcast TV, cable, major newspapers. He is quite a star and quite, I believe, an intellect and a thoughtful observer and a true, true communicator. So I can certainly understand why Barack Obama would want to be a part of that world. Here's what it is. Everyone who is a part of one media establishment looks down their nose at the newcomers. Broadcast people look down at cable news for a long time. Now cable news is looking down its nose at the Young turks and the other online talk show host and news programs. If you're a politician, you just can't care about that. You have to focus on communicating with voters. And these days voters, especially young voters, are going online online video. So I think that Obama was wise to do this. I think frankly it's not a partisan thing any Republican president in this day and age would do. So whoever is the next Republican president will be doing some online interviews. Now, perhaps it's with the National Review correspondent online, but they'll be doing online interviews seen on YouTube. It's simply the way to reach voters. Now, is it possible to do something undignified as president? Sure, if you are doing an interview in your underwear or in a vat of jelly, yeah, it's possible to be undignified. But simply answering questions from people who aren't so called traditional journalists, that's not undignified at all.