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摘要

Barack Obama, arguably the first new-media president, takes the oath of office with media issues prominently on his agenda. Perhaps more than at any other time, events have conspired to make that unavoidable. He takes over only four weeks before one of the biggest technological changes in TV history is due to begin, and at a time when access to the newest video and data communications medium, the Internet, is crucial to participation in the national dialogue. The details of that media-centric agenda are part of a much larger stimulus package to get the nation out of a deep and lingering recession.