I am currently visiting family abroad. The majority of my news during a hasty trip to Japan, and for the last few months before the election came from live video or in the form of podcasts that I downloaded to watch on the train. These broadcasts usually play with no filler and no commercials and are generally thought of as the most important stories of the day.
In addition to there being, at least in my view, less positive stories to be had about McCain because his message was less positive, I think some people are forgetting the McCain campaign was quite content to sit back and let Sarah "The New Face of the GOP" Palin take on the majority of the news cycle on almost every channel during the last few weeks of the election. Maybe some of the reason there weren't as many stories about McCain was because it was a deliberate campaign strategy to put her forward to "Energize the base". Perhaps this is also why no one here is discussing why Joe Biden got almost no coverage.
In many of the days leading up to election day, for every TV news story I saw on McCain there were at least one about Obama and two about Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin, be it problems with the media, or her general and almost horrifying lack of knowledge about, well, almost anything... took up quite a good part of what I got to see here. Also, a good deal of the coverage I saw was about Palin's ability to draw larger crowds than McCain himself, which I also think was deliberate, on the part of the campaign.
I think maybe, if we were to revisit the numbers using a set that
included the amount of coverage the campaigns got wholly, fewer people would be claiming bias. Just a thought.
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I am currently visiting family abroad. The majority of my news during a hasty trip to Japan, and for the last few months before the election came from live video or in the form of podcasts that I downloaded to watch on the train. These broadcasts usually play with no filler and no commercials and are generally thought of as the most important stories of the day. In addition to there being, at least in my view, less positive stories to be had about McCain because his message was less positive, I think some people are forgetting the McCain campaign was quite content to sit back and let Sarah "The New Face of the GOP" Palin take on the majority of the news cycle on almost every channel during the last few weeks of the election. Maybe some of the reason there weren't as many stories about McCain was because it was a deliberate campaign strategy to put her forward to "Energize the base". Perhaps this is also why no one here is discussing why Joe Biden got almost no coverage. In many of the days leading up to election day, for every TV news story I saw on McCain there were at least one about Obama and two about Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin, be it problems with the media, or her general and almost horrifying lack of knowledge about, well, almost anything... took up quite a good part of what I got to see here. Also, a good deal of the coverage I saw was about Palin's ability to draw larger crowds than McCain himself, which I also think was deliberate, on the part of the campaign. I think maybe, if we were to revisit the numbers using a set that included the amount of coverage the campaigns got wholly, fewer people would be claiming bias. Just a thought.