{"id":50431,"date":"2012-08-08T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=50431"},"modified":"2017-11-21T04:52:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T23:22:12","slug":"obama-is-an-avid-reader-and-critic-of-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/obama-is-an-avid-reader-and-critic-of-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Is An Avid Reader, And Critic, Of The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by AMY CHOZICK\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/c\/amy_chozick\/index.html\" rel=\"author\">Amy Chozick<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few months after\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/elections.nytimes.com\/2012\/candidates\/barack-obama?inline=nyt-per\">President Obama<\/a>\u2019s $787 billion economic\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about economic stimulus.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/u\/united_states_economy\/economic_stimulus\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">stimulus package<\/a>\u00a0passed, he began to notice news reports, but not about the jobs the bill might create or how much of the country\u2019s infrastructure it would repair. 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