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Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kudos-for-owning-up-to-it dept.

narcberry writes "After complaints of one-sided reporting, the Washington Post checked their own articles and agreed. Obama was clearly favored, throughout his campaign, in terms of more favorable articles, less criticism, better page real-estate, more pictures, and total disregard for problems such as his drug use. 'Stories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain. Reporters, photographers and editors found the candidacy of Obama, the first African American major-party nominee, more newsworthy and historic. Journalists love the new; McCain, 25 years older than Obama, was already well known and had more scars from his longer career in politics. The number of Obama stories since Nov. 11 was 946, compared with McCain's 786. Both had hard-fought primary campaigns, but Obama's battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton was longer, and the numbers reflect that. McCain clinched the GOP nomination on March 4, three months before Obama won his. From June 4 to Election Day, the tally was Obama, 626 stories, and McCain, 584. Obama was on the front page 176 times, McCain, 144 times; 41 stories featured both.'"

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  1. The 2008 post-election drinking game by Malevolent+Tester · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Go to Daily Kos or a similar site and retrieve a vanity post from 2004 whining about Bush stealing the election
    2) Replace Bush with Obama, and post to FreeRepublic
    3) Drink a shot everytime someone replies positively
    4) Die of alcohol poisoning

    Irony laden fun for the whole family.

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  2. Re:... and? by Spookticus · · Score: 3, Funny

    google "2012 Polling statistics". http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/election.png

  3. Re:No surprise by arotenbe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there any surprise? The media (with the exception of Fox News) has always had a pretty large liberal bias.

    Having said that, Obama is young, charismatic, and is promoting the change America wants. He would have won either way.

    Reality has a well-known liberal bias!

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  4. Re:Duh. by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think Palin hit closer to home for most voters. I'm sure most people don't know what the Bush Doctrine, read a paper, or could name a supreme court decision they agreed with, or have any clue about international relations.

    Obama just managed to be smarter than the average voter without sounding condescending.

  5. Re:No surprise by Hatta · · Score: 4, Funny

    You want liberal bias? Watch or listen to PBS/NPR?

    Because responsible reporting is unfair to conservatives.

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