Reply #14: Actually the press has never covered all "major" speeches

[BabsSong]

It depends. For example, a speech to tell the people that we are going to war, etc. is covered. A SOTU speech is covered. Perhaps they would have covered this speech right after the Iraqi invasion finished as our "plans" in the region. But I've seen speeches like this ignored before because they are basically deemed in advance as nothing but political campaigning with no real importance to the issue and, thus, they get stuck into having to either provide time for the opponent or get highly criticized. After an election, they will cover Kerry's innaugeration speech. They will simply cover highlights of addresses on things like "a universal health care proposal" that he might deliver to audience X or Y. Yes, this country would be a lot better off if they covered more. But they don't.