Posted on 08/21/2008 6:50:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
Anyone who thinks the media have been balanced and unbiased during this election season simply hasn't been paying attention.
Barack Obama has benefited from adoring coverage, a lack of journalistic rigor and a sizable advantage in media coverage. In short, everything in the media seems to break his direction.
Large portions of the American public already recognize this. According to a recent study by Rasmussen Reports, 50% of independent voters and even 27% of Democrats believe that the media are trying to help Obama win. Just 12% of independents say the media are helping John McCain.
This bias works several ways. Consider how much coverage the presidential candidates have been getting.
When McCain went overseas a few months ago, the media barely covered the trip. When Obama went, all three TV network anchors joined him.
According to the Washington Post ombudsman, from June 4 — when Obama clinched the nomination — to Aug. 17, Obama had a 3-to-1 advantage over McCain in front-page stories in that paper.
A similar pattern exists in most of the mainstream media.
It comes as little surprise, then, that according to a recent study by Pew Research, 48% of those surveyed — and 51% of political independents — say they have heard "too much" about Obama.
The excuse for this imbalance is that people need to get to know Obama. But the media coverage has been fawning and superficial
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
People are slowly wising up.
I always help McCain by clicking Obama’s pay-per-click ads whenever I see them.
Only the seventh time this year...
Obama had a crucial advantage over his rivals this year: the support of the national media, especially the three broadcast networks. A new study by the Media Research Center documents how at every step of his national political career, network reporters showered the Illinois Senator with glowing media coverage, building him up as a political celebrity and exhibiting little interest in investigating his past associations or exploring the controversies that could have threatened his campaign. MediaResearch.org
Some fitness magazine called barry one of the fittest men in the world. I kid you not.
"...For the advocates of this perverse militant egalitarianism, reasoned argument is replaced by a conditioned reflex as Obama's legions of lickspittle automatons mindlessly parrot as "evidence" whatever Obama himself has written in any one of his own self-serving books. You see this has never been about the free interchange of ideas or even the ascertainment of truth, this is all about entitlement and nothing not even freedom or liberty is going to get in the way...."
It’s good to see that some of the electorate sees through these phony liars.
We should specifically idendify O’s cheerleaders in the media and send them cheerleader outfits. Chris Matthews would look spectacular in a dress, with tingles up and down his leg and all.
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