Nope. No Media Bias Here.

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Press treatment of Obama has been somewhat more positive than negative, but not markedly so. But coverage of McCain has been heavily unfavorable—and has become more so over time. In the six weeks following the conventions through the final debate, unfavorable stories about McCain outweighed favorable ones by a factor of more than three to one—the most unfavorable of all four candidates—according to the study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Winning the Media Campaign | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
 
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I was in a Doctor's office last week and picked up a Newsweek. It was comical how many negative McCain stories there were.
 
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You obviously have not seen the local interview Biden did on an Orlando station. "who wrote this list of questions?". Hilarious. In other words, "why are you not reading from the issued script?". Biden and Obama are dangerous.
 
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I have never seen a election that is so one sided. The media has been pushing Obama from day 1. but why? There has to be something behind it, why are they pushing this guy so hard that we really don't know that much about? It seems to me it would be the medias job to dig into BOTH of these men, not just McCain. IMO.
 
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what's sad is that when Palin gets a hostile interview, it's seen as journalism, when Biden gets a hostile interview, it's part of some vast right wing conspiracy.

McCain is asked by Whoopi Goldberg if he wants her to be a slave again and it's dismissed as Whoopi being a comedian. Obama gets told how good looking he is by Whoopi's co-hosts.

I'm not complaining though, an Obama/Biden administration is going to be a gold mine for the conservative blogosphere as well as conservative talk radio. Unless the democrats succeed in ramming the fairness doctrine down our throats.
 
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So, it seems that barring something ridiculous happening, Obama is going to win and the Dems are going to pick up seats in the House and the Senate. I'm not sure that the Dems will get their supermajority ... but it is certainly a possibility. My question is...will the all-Dem administration and Congress do enough harm that we'll see it end after just 4 years?

I would think that it would be very hard to adjust the House enough in just 4 years for that majority go away. I would also think that it will be hard to do in the Senate if the Dems pick up enough seats in this election. So, that leaves the Presidency. Is it possible that we'll have to deal with 8 years of one party controlling it all? I don't like the sounds of that (regardless of the party).
 
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GAVol said:
I was in a Doctor's office last week and picked up a Newsweek. It was comical how many negative McCain stories there were.
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That's why in our lobby we only keep Fox News on the TV's and hide the remotes.........."Fair and Balanced".:p
 
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TennNC said:
wonder why nobody has cared to reply to this post yet.
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The logic here is a perfect example of what the study found. The echo chamber - find an issue (perceived negative) spin it, amplify it -- then use polling data to show that it is negative and report on the reaction as proof it is negative.

You can't really believe that McCain's negatives ran 3 to 1 vs Obama can you? 3 to 1? It's absurd. The media prism disagrees with McCain - tells the public it's bad then reports that the public thinks it's bad.
 
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volinbham said:
The logic here is a perfect example of what the study found. The echo chamber - find an issue (perceived negative) spin it, amplify it -- then use polling data to show that it is negative and report on the reaction as proof it is negative.

You can't really believe that McCain's negatives ran 3 to 1 vs Obama can you? 3 to 1? It's absurd. The media prism disagrees with McCain - tells the public it's bad then reports that the public thinks it's bad.
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if McCain loses, will you blame the media?
 
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volinbham said:
The logic here is a perfect example of what the study found. The echo chamber - find an issue (perceived negative) spin it, amplify it -- then use polling data to show that it is negative and report on the reaction as proof it is negative.

You can't really believe that McCain's negatives ran 3 to 1 vs Obama can you? 3 to 1? It's absurd. The media prism disagrees with McCain - tells the public it's bad then reports that the public thinks it's bad.
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So the monkey chases the weasel?

If the money had poured into McCain Campaign after the convention and stayed steady.. If the polling had taken steady momentum toward that ticket... wouldn't the monkey be chasing a different weasel right now?

I don't think there is a solution to your echo effect Bham...

I understand and agree about liberal bias, but some measure of that perception is less politically motivated than, well, let's say... chasing the more sexy angle...

Side note: Entertainment Tonight's wall to wall love affair with Palin is a classic media 'sex chase'...
 
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orange+white=heaven said:
I understand and agree about liberal bias, but some measure of that perception is less politically motivated than, well, let's say... chasing the more sexy angle...
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I think the press ignored any potential sexy angle they could on Obama and created some for McCain.

He (McCain) was leading in the polls during part of this yet the negative hits kept coming. The study is pretty clear about the disparity in coverage.

It's more than a liberal bias issue - it's all about Obama. The press (much of it) has bought into his candidacy.
 
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volinbham said:
No.
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how is that. The spread between the two candidates is at least partially media generated. Certainly the Bush admin. is the single largest differentiator in this election, but the media has been as biased as I can ever remember.

Hell, people out there actually believe Obama has qualifications and don't know jack of his politics, even when there is a record out there. The man has been allowed to make pronouncements that are absolutely antithetical to anything he has ever stood for and has gotten a complete pass.
 
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volinbham said:
It's more than a liberal bias issue - it's all about Obama. The press (much of it) has bought into his candidacy.
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True. And much of the country has bought into his candidacy. Just like much of the country bought into W's, and Clinton's, and Reagan's.
 
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If the media coverage doesn't help drive national opinion of the candidates, why do the candidates beg for so much of it and why do they spend enormous amounts of money generating enormous TV campaigns?

I think the idiot box and media absolutely drive public sentiment. While it's sad, it's still true.
 
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