Ich bin ein complete flop: Why no wide-angle shots of Obama's speech in Berlin yesterday?

[Little-Acorn]

Remember way back when Obama made his speech in Berlin in 2008? It looked like this:

Barack Obama speech in Berlin, 2008

For some reason, though his latest speech was in the same place at nearly the same time, no one is providing any aerial shots of it. I haven't even been able to find any pictures from ground level, with the lens zoomed out enough to show a large part of the area around the Brandenburg gate.

I wonder why not?

Obama had an audience of around 200,000 people in 2008... and he wasn't even elected yet.

Now that people have gotten a good dose of his style of government, his speech yesterday drew... maybe 4,500 people.

Pictures of that would be an outright embarrassment. The best the photographers seem to be able to do is this:

Barack Obama speech in Berlin, 2013

Apparently the "news" media's job has changed. It's not longer concerned with reporting what happened. It is trying to avoid embarrassing Obama.

 

[dogtowner]

and they ALL were invited guests. and all on the other side of 8 inches of protective glass.

 

[Cruella]

Obama has made us a laughing stock around the world.

 

[dogtowner]

Obama has made us a laughing stock around the world.

and the world has been waiting so long for that.

 

[Cruella]

and the world has been waiting so long for that

Kremlin Sees Obama as Weak

Saudi Newspaper: Obama Is the Weakest President In The History Of The U.S.

In the Irish Parliament; Obama called 'hypocrite of the century'

Anti-Obama protests kick-off in South Africa ahead of visit

 

[dogtowner]

Kremlin Sees Obama as Weak

Saudi Newspaper: Obama Is the Weakest President In The History Of The U.S.

In the Irish Parliament; Obama called 'hypocrite of the century'

Anti-Obama protests kick-off in South Africa ahead of visit

and if anything could come out of China.... well just look at what they're doing.

if it were not real life it would be a terrific joke.