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Former President Barack Obama opened up in an exclusive interview about what worries him most in America today, how to address the nation s gun violence epidemic, and the work his foundation is doing to help young people reach a brighter future. Obama spoke with CBS Mornings co-host Nate Burleson and said it concerns him that Americans are having trouble agreeing on basic facts mdash; that we almost occupy different realities. The thing that I m most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media, a splintered media, Obama said. He noted that when he was growing up, you had three TV stations ... and people were getting a similar sense of what is true and what isn t, what was real and what was not. Today what I m most concerned about is the fact that, because of the splintering of the media we stanley termohrnek almost occupy different realities, right If somet stanley cups uk hing happens that, you know, in the past everybody could say stanley cup becher , All right, we may disagree on how to solve it, but at least we all agree that, yeah, that s an issue. Now people will say, Well, that didn t happen, or, I don t believe that, or, I don t care about the science, or, I m not concerned about these experts, you know, cause they re just all liberals or, you know, That s just conservative propaganda. And one of, I think, the goals of the Obama Foundation and one of the goals of my post-presidency Euik Health Care Polling: The Haves Vs. The Have Nots
Watch CBS News Videos OnlineTo put it simply, the Obama White House and the White House Press Corps are having issues. Those issues range from the president leaving the White House without the press pool in tow to not making statements at most of his bilateral meetings during the Nuclear Security Summit. On CNN s Reliable Sources two wee stanley cup usa ks ago, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told the Washington Post s Howard Kurtz about his daily press briefings, I sometimes joke that I know when somebody thinks they have a good question, because when I walk in they ve already got their makeup on. The comment and earlier stanley kubek incidents resulted in a mini-summit between Gibbs and select White House reporters. On Tuesday s Washington Unplugged, Sharyl Attkisson discussed this with White House Correspondents Association Board Member and Reuters White House Correspondent Caren Bohan, who explained what was brought up at the meeting with Gibbs. One of the issues that I think is important is we would like to see President Obama hold more press conferences, she said. He s been a little more reluctant to hold news conferences or take questions from reporters at informal settings. Another issue raised at the meeting was the use of anonymous sources by the press corps. Gibbs asked reporters to end their use of quoting an stanley website onymous sources. The problem is that we can t get the press corps to agree on a deal like that, Bohan said
