Tedious preoccupation

[flowersa]

Hi, is this defines "Tedious" correctly?

From English dictionary & thesaurus, translation from English to Spanish & Turkish and Spanish to English - Cambridge Dictionary Online
Boring- a tedious job

I see now that I'm not sure with "Preoccupation" ... what does it means in this context?

"To Obama, the ritual parsing of these kinds of statements was a tedious preoccupation of the media, an obsession that few real Americans shared"

[BobK]

Hi,is does this defines "Tedious" correctly?

From English dictionary & thesaurus, translation from English to Spanish & Turkish and Spanish to English - Cambridge Dictionary Online
Boring- a tedious job

I see now that I'm not sure with "Preoccupation" ... what does it means in this context?

"To Obama, the ritual parsing of these kinds of statements was a tedious preoccupation of the media, an obsession that few real Americans shared"

preoccupation noun - definition in British English Dictionary & Thesaurus - Cambridge Dictionary Online

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