I just watched President Obama's Nobel speech, I thought it was brief and poignant, and really fitting for such a surprise of an announcement. But I heard two shouted questions as he left the podium:
The first one, not so bad, "What did your wife say?" However, the second, shouted as he was walking back up the steps, "What are you going to do with the money?"
What? Really? You had all morning, knowing you were going to the WH for a rather important historical moment--Nobel Prizes are, after all, a big deal--and the best question, the one you opted to shout out was what he's going to do with the prize money? Look, I thought about it for 1.2 seconds and realized, "He'll donate it, of course." Why our process-obsessed media cool kids seem to think that cute gotchas are what anyone wants to hear, as opposed to questions of substance. I'm even okay with gotchas--as long as they're of substance too.
So frustrating. I wanted to hear a few nearly-extemporaneous words from the President about an historically-significant moment, and I get foolish questions from foolish people leaving a bad taste in my mouth.