{"id":1932407,"date":"2023-05-17T07:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-almost-live-in-different-realities-barack-obama-says-divided-media-keeps-him-up-at-night\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:14:13","slug":"we-almost-live-in-different-realities-barack-obama-says-divided-media-keeps-him-up-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-almost-live-in-different-realities-barack-obama-says-divided-media-keeps-him-up-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama worries about a &#8220;divided media&#8221; causing different realities."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-almost-live-in-different-realities-barack-obama-says-divided-media-keeps-him-up-at-night%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932407&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Obama: Divided Media is Keeping Me Up at Night<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama recently spoke with CBS Mornings co-host Nate Burleson about the divided nature of media and how it translates to a divided America. Obama claimed that since he left the White House in January 2017, the divided media was the thing that truly kept him up at night.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Obama&#8217;s Concerns<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Obama is worried about the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media.<\/li>\n<li>He referenced the time before cable news, the internet, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/our-founding-fathers-guaranteed-due-process-in-the-bill-of-rights-why-doesnt-that-apply-to-the-daunte-wright-case\/\" title=\"Our Founding Fathers Guaranteed \u2018Due Process\u2019 In The Bill Of Rights. Why Doesn\u2019t That Apply To The Daunte Wright Case?\">24-hour news cycle<\/a> when most Americans got their news from three main networks and everyone could at least agree on what the facts were in any given situation.<\/li>\n<li>Today, because of the splintering of the media, we almost occupy different realities.<\/li>\n<li>Obama&#8217;s goal with regard to the Obama Foundation is to explore ways to bring the conversation back to where people could at least agree on a common set of facts as a jumping-off point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the same interview, the former president also addressed the topics of gun violence and mass shootings. He argued that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-wake-of-another-tragedy-democrats-once-again-prove-commitment-to-never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste\/\" title=\"In Wake Of Another Tragedy, Democrats Once Again Prove Commitment To \u2018Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste\u2019\">gun control argument<\/a> had become more political than necessary and had become a proxy for arguments about our culture wars.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of thinking about it in a very pragmatic way, we end up really arguing about identity, and emotion, and all kinds of stuff that does not have to do with keeping our children safe.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to come together and have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-almost-live-in-different-realities-barack-obama-says-divided-media-keeps-him-up-at-night\/\" title=\"Obama worries about a \"divided media\" causing different realities.\">common conversation based<\/a> on a common set of facts. Let&#8217;s put aside our differences and work towards a better future for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-President Obama revealed that the divided media has been his biggest concern since leaving the White House in 2017. Speaking to CBS&#8217;s Nate Burleson, he discussed how the media&#8217;s division has led to a divided America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1932408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5623,12417,4188,5315,22757,12369],"class_list":["post-1932407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-causing","tag-divided","tag-media","tag-obama","tag-realities","tag-worries"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}