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an international, history-making media event when President barack Obama was named commencement speaker. There were more than 4,000 media stories filed about the historic day. Commencement was featured in every media platform, from national newspapers to the television late night talk shows. following are highlights of Commencement coverage. moreHouse maGaZIne
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Media Research Center netWorKs hYPe oBama’s ‘PoWerful’ CommenCement sPeeCh; set asiDe more than fiVe minutes of air time ABC, CBS and NBC touted President Obama’s Commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta on their Sunday evening and Monday morning newscasts, devoting a total of five minutes and 14 seconds to the “powerful speech,” as NBC’s Tamron Hall labeled it on Monday’s Today. On Monday’s CBS This Morning, Norah O’donnell saying, “I think it’s one of those speeches that will be looked at over the years.” Lester Holt played up the president’s “voice of experience” on Sunday’s NBC Nightly News, and said, “…the president is sharing in a way we rarely hear him.” USA Today oBama: there’s no lonGer time or eXCuses for BlaCK men The president connected his own path to the White House to the work of King and other African-American leaders of that generation. But Obama also conceded that at times as a young man he wrongly blamed his own failings “as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down.”
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CNN Around the World CNN anchors Suzanne Malveaux and Michael Holmes spoke with immediate past SGA president Anre’ Washington and newly commissioned officer Adam Starks about what it felt like to hear President Obama deliver the Commencement speech during their graduation. The New York Times oBama urGes GraDs to set the eXamPle The president tied dr. King’s journey to his own, speaking in forthright and strikingly personal terms about his struggles as a young man with an absent father, a “heroic single mom” and the psychological burdens of being black in America. He also issued a challenge to the graduating class, imploring the young men of the nation’s only historically black, all-male college, to be responsible family men, set an example and extend a hand to those less privileged than they are. Theroot.com PresiDent oBama DeliVers sPeeCh at morehouse Barack Obama arrived in Atlanta on a rainy Sunday to be with a friendlier crowd after a rough week in Washington to become the first sitting president to deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College.