What President Obama and his staff still don’t get about ‘new’ media

[Commentary] President Barack Obama is a 21st century president who does interviews with garage podcasters and has the second most Twitter followers (on two accounts) in the world. But he sometimes seems wistful for a time when the news cycle was slower and the press didn't, as he put it on "The Daily Show" last summer, fixate on "shiny objects" and fail to "focus on the big, tough choices and decisions." Sorry, Mr. President. But that time never actually existed. News didn't always travel as fast as it does today in 140-character dispatches, but the media have always hovered around shiny objects. It's important to point this out because President Obama and his aides like to promote the self-serving idea that they have it harder than pre-meme administrations.