Out of the Newsroom

On Wednesday, January 27th, there will be two major addresses that many people will be following quite closely.

One will be the President’s State of the Union, the other will be a CEO introducing a new product.

Oddly, either could change the financial state of this country, if not the world.

Or not, as the case may be.

But when the CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, the product isn’t just any new product.

The expectations of what Jobs will unveil are as high as they have been for anything in recent memory. From the company that has changed the way we work with computers, the way we enjoy our music and the way we use our cell phones…the expectations are very high about what is widely believed to be a “tablet” style device. Some have even dubbed it “the jesus tablet”.

The speculation has been rampant for months. That will come to an end at 1pm EST on Wednesday, which will be when Jobs takes the stage. The President will have to wait another 7 hours after that for his turn.

Reports are that Jobs calls whatever he is going to talk about as “the most important thing I’ve ever done.” One wonders if Mr. Obama is thinking the same way at this point.

The good news for Jobs…he won’t have the talking heads on Fox, CNN, MSNBC and all the rest of the 24-hour chatfest outlets talking about what he says for hours on end.

He’ll only have to worry about CNBC, G4 and a whole bunch of blogs. Not that they are any picnic to deal with.

Here’s hoping that both can wow their audiences.