How Obamas have changed culture

Maybe it's just a hangover effect from all of those Barack attacks we've had in the past year.
Bob Strauss in the Daily News.
But both anecdotally and intuitively, it seems that Barack and Michelle Obama - the first youthfully attractive couple to occupy the White House since the Kennedy administration - are influencing the look and attitude of one of television's first responders to cultural change: commercials.

"I don't know if it's connected, necessarily, to now having a black president and first lady, but I think it probably is," said Rebecca Yee, the Screen Actors Guild's director of affirmative action/diversity.

"From talking to our members, our own anecdotal experiences and just being in the industry, the advertisers are actually ahead of the curve when we talk about diversity."