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Your liberal media, still waiting to become liberal
FOA (and Philadelphian) Rem Rieder, the editor of American Journalism Review, has written what I think is the definitive Media-in-the-Tank-for-Obama piece:
A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that the media cast McCain in a much more negative light than it did Obama. But that hardly means the press was unfair to the Arizonan. Covering the candidates equally would be a false equivalence if one campaign were performing far better than the other one.
"Citizen Kane" no doubt got much more positive coverage than "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." My beloved Phillies got plenty of good ink when they won the World Series this year. All the years they failed to qualify for the playoffs, not so much.
The truth is, the Obama campaign was well-organized, disciplined, virtually error-free. Obama was an inspiring candidate to many, a dazzling public speaker with an inspiring storyline.
The McCain campaign, in contrast, was a train wreck, lurching from message to message. And McCain, who can be an immensely appealing figure, seemed angry and unfocused.
Read the whole thing, and then read Josh Marshall's take. Then write an angry comment. Then see that while the lliberal mainstream media isn't so liberal, liberal bloggers -- who actually are liberal -- win one for a change. Hoo-ray!
Careful, Will, Beverly Hills Chihuahua is hank's favorite movie. Keep posting comments like that, and you might make hank angry.— Talking point sleuth- Compare the questions Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama to the questions he asked Sarah Palin. Quo Era Demonstrata.— Col. Nathan R. Jessep
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- Swifty, did it occur to you that maybe it's just because Mark Halperin is kind of a dope?— will
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- My favorite aspect of this whole debate is that after years and years of dismissing studies that show no media bias, Republican toadies are convinced of said media bias because there was a study that said there were a preponderance of negative stories about McCain's campaign. You know, the very same campaign that FRIGHTWING TALK RADIO is trashing 24/7. Republican toady logic. Always and forever, an oxymoron.— Talking point sleuth
It is easy to avoid media bias in any direction by watching or listening to cspan. During the campaign they regularly broadcast campaign events and even events involving the third-party candidates. Obama was forceful, told where he stood on the issues, and rarely drifted once he made up his mind. McCain was off on a different tangent every week, frequently contradicting earlier positions, sometimes contradicting the position of a week before. The third party candidates were mostly wacky, although Bob Barr was genial about the nutty positions of the libertarians. So if you really paid attention, it would be no surprise that Obama's coverage seemed positive. McCain was forces to invent positions for Obama that he did not take (raise taxes, pal around with terrorists, socialism) so that he could have something to run against--even he recognized that he could not run against Obama's sensible call for change, a call McCain eventually echoed in his own campaign (on every other week or so). It was not that their were puffs for Obama; for example, reporting the huge crowds and the success of his voter registration efforts was simply reporting the truth.- Comment removed.
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- What media bias? On the November 18 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, amid reports that President-elect Barack Obama has decided to nominate Clinton Justice Department veteran Eric Holder to be attorney general, host Chris Matthews said, "This is what you do when you don't have elections. You simply promote the people ... who had the deputy jobs. You could do this in any bureaucratic state, you could do it in the old Soviet Union. ... You don't need elections for this cr*p." But in 2001, responding to then President-elect George W. Bush's selection to his cabinet of veterans of prior administrations, Matthews offered a very different assessment of such actions. Purporting to quote "an NBC driver" on the January 3, 2001, edition of Hardball, Matthews said the driver, a Vietnam veteran, is "like a lot of guys you meet," and said, "They want guys who've been around and survived." Matthews then said of then-President elect George W. Bush's Cabinet picks: "You've got it in this Cabinet. There's some real heavyweights in terms of experience."— Talking point sleuth
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