In the news recently in China, there was an article about President Obama chewing Nicorette gum due to his addiction to nicotine. The article discussed how the Chinese consider gum chewing to be rude and the media commented about how he was always chewing Nicorette gum. In the US media, the Administration is scrupulous about the President not chewing gum when photographed.
It is amazing that the foreign media sometimes can teach us more about our current leaders than our domestic media. But the real issue is that if the US media assists the Government in concealing this, albeit, small inconsequential image issue concerning our president, what larger, more important issues are concealed?
