U.S. President Barack Obama. Image by: LARRY DOWNING / Reuters
America Is Bored Of The NSA Story -- Lucia Graves, Defense One/National Journal
When President Obama announced his long-awaited reforms to the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance program, it was met by a collective yawn. It was the Friday before a holiday weekend, and not many Americans were listening. Those who were were finding it difficult.
Fifty percent of Americans have heard nothing about the president’s proposals, and 41 percent said they’d heard just a little, according to a new Pew Research Center/USA Today poll. Taken together the numbers mean that nine out of 10 citizens had little interest in what Obama had to say following six months of heated policy debate in Washington.
It’s not that the issue isn’t important (the poll also found 53 percent of respondents disapprove of the government’s bulk collection practices around Internet and telephone metadata), but that something was missing—an element that would capture the imagination of Americans and allow them to pay attention to an important (wonky!) area of policy.
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My Comment: Wars overseas, the NSA, growing debts, a paralyzed political process, an absent media .... yup .... the American people are becoming completely tuned out.
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