I really shouldn't get on photographers who have a job to do, but how many pictures do we need of President-Elect Barack Obama?
I was watching his news conference live on Tuesday afternoon as Obama discussed some of his ideas for dealing with the gargantuan economic crisis, the ongoing fighting on the Gaza Strip and the controversial selection of Leon Panetta to head the CIA.
We're talking pretty serious stuff. Monster questions needing solutions from the man who will lead this nation in a matter of days.
But all I could hear was the constant cacophony of clicks from the still photographers taking pictures of Obama. Now I know they're searching for that instant they can capture that can show in a picture the mood or expression of the subject.
There may be a question at some point that will draw some type of reaction from Obama: surprise, anger, amusement, boredom or that Macaulay Culkin expression from Home Alone.
Of course Obama doesn't lose his cool in front of the media, so I think a more productive quest for the photographers would be a shot of the Lost Ark of the Covenant.
But watch the video clip I've attached to this story. It runs about a minute and 45 seconds. As Obama sits behind a desk and gives his very measured statement and response, ask yourself how many pictures NEED to be snapped?
The President-Elect starts sounding like "our budget deficit..click, click..trillion dollars..click, click..pork barrel spending..click, click..can you believe the Colts couldn't get two yards on third down..click, click..Panetta may have no experience in intelligence..click, click..Al Franken will kill at the Correspondents dinner..click, click..Biden said what?"
Or maybe I'm wrong.
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