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Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign
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.'"
The media (with the exception of Fox News) has always had a pretty large liberal bias.
Really? To the rest of the world (or at least western Europe), even 'left wing' American newspapers appear hilariously conservative.
So? Much of the world supported either Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, Mussolini or Stalin. Does that mean they were right?
If the whole world jumped off a cliff... Oh, never mind.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
McCain picking a woefully under-qualified running mate, apparently without even bothering to vet her, is a big story. It has nothing to do with 'liberal bias'.
There's plenty of evidence that the 2004 Ohio election wasn't kosher. Like criminal convictions. Easy assertions of "both sides do it" awaits evidence that both sides, in fact, do it.
Having said that, Obama is young, charismatic, and is promoting the change that 48% of Americans did not want.
There, fixed it for ya. America is a more divided country now than I can remember in my life time. Obama failed to unite the people and proven just how partisan he is.
Change We Need? Looked to me any other corrupt politician.
Bearded Dragon
Exactly. Why would they give McCain a prominent section just to cover whatever his new smear of the day is?
The whole "liberal media" thing is so bogus, here's a clue righties, give something positive to report and the media will report it. 8 years of GWB of course the news is going to appear biased when there's hardly anything positive to report.
Yeah but I guess the liberal media did go way too easy on Clinton, oh wait no they didn't it was a feeding frenzy. Selective memory I guess...
Most voters are vaguely center-right, with a significant center-left contingent.
Most voters are actually center-left WRT their actual held positions, but believe they are center-right.
Something like 75% want the government to cover the health care costs for people who cannot afford care, for example. (And something like 52% of Republicans want that.)
Likewise, many Americans would like there to be less abortions, but do not want to make it illegal, yet paradoxically believe they are 'pro-life'.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
The free market? The person with the most money gets to shout the loudest. Right wing talk radio is nothing but propaganda by the incredibly wealthy trying to convince the people to vote against their own interests. You don't need healthcare! You don't need labor laws! That's all the work of pesky liberals. You're either with us, or against us.
The funniest part is that the public airwaves are a limited resource. They are supposed to serve the public good, but oddly enough 95% of the spectrum is dedicated to commercial radio, which is either explicit (talk-radio) or implicit (commercial radio) propaganda. And this unbelievable powerful broadcast conduit, this window into nearly every American home, office, and vehicle, is available completely free for the big media companies, besides some nominal licensing fees.
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
that his friendship with admitted left-wing terrorists is "a lie"??
Not only is it not a lie, it has been proven true.