What Obama Reads Online

Obama is the first president to use the Internet the way the rest of us do—he’s “constantly” online on the computer at his desk, "reading news articles, checking sports scores," and regularly using email, a senior adviser tells the Washington Post. Aides say Obama was particularly interested in Andrew Sullivan’s Tweet coverage of the Iranian elections last summer, and he checks out writers who discuss his policies. The president also occasionally watches the cable talk shows he’s publicly derided as “cable chatter” and eats up magazines like the New Yorker, the Economist, Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone.