Barack Obama gets more media attention than John McCain does. But contrary to gripes about liberal bias, that coverage tends to be more negative.
During six weeks of network TV news coverage this summer, opinions expressed about Obama were 72 percent negative and 28 percent positive, according to a study by George Mason University’s Center for Media and Public Affairs. McCain also got more negative coverage than positive, but not nearly so much, with 57 percent negative and 43 percent positive.
Also, McCain’s flubs are less likely to receive media attention than Obama’s miscues. “Even McCain’s most blatant confusions, memory lapses and outright lies still barely cause a ripple,” New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote, “whether he’s railing against a piece of pork he in fact voted for . . . or falsifying crucial details of his marital history in his memoirs, as the Los Angeles Times uncovered in court records last month.”
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Yep, that’s what happens when your campaign has less positive aspects to it. Many of the ‘negative’ examples in the link were merely examples of accurate reporting.
There’s not a lot of substance to Omama, you can’t did too deep.
omama=obama
your mother was hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
First, this report was published July 28. Maybe Brownlee could do a little bit of reporting as it happens and not over a month after the fact.
Second, the poll also found that Obama had more favorable comments from Fox News than John McCain during the primaries. The same analysis found 62% positive comments for Obama to only 34% positive for McCain during the primaries overall. There’s something the Eagle would hate to report.
Third, I question what really constitutes a negative “comment.” Here’s an example of what a negative “comment” is from the study:
“Far more Americans say John McCain would be a good commander in chief than Obama” – Jake Tapper, ABC
But the transcript shows that comment in a different light:
“In an ABC News poll, far more Americans say John McCain would be a good commander in chief than Obama. Obama hopes this foreign trip will change that perception, though, there are risks.
The guy is stating the results of the poll and that’s a ‘negative’ comment? It’s not even a comment, it’s a fact. That’s what the poll showed!
Good investigative skills there Brownlee. Next time why don’t you post something like this when it happens for a change, huh?
Media types are following the lesson of respecting your elders. We all recognize his “most blatant confusions, memory lapses and outright lies,” are who he is at this late stage of life. We’ve all heard his “memoirs” often enough to repeat them verbatim. Maybe if he were capable of speaking about something that matters today someone would listen. Why would anyone argue with Grandpa when you can humor him?
And I failed to mention that Brownlee’s last paragraph has nothing to do with the study at all, this is just his opinion based off of a LA Times article, which, BTW, was published more than a month after this study and just before the DNC Convention.
And this post was oddly similar to a post from the Kansas Dem Party which was put up just one day after the report was published.
http://www.ksdp.org/node/5238
I expect the Democrats to tell only part of the truth, but the ‘mainstream media’?
Is Brownlee trying to keep this Democrat tilt on the facts in the news?
“Media coverage favoring McCain?” Well, DUH. This comes as no surprise if you’ve been following the AP’s “reportage” from pro-McCain hacks like Ron Fournier and Nedra Pickler. Straight Talk has been “free ride” for the last eight years, never more so than during the last couple of months.
Fortunately, the bloom is off the rose. Between his extraordinarily nasty attack campaign and the fact that the McCain campaign won’t let him talk directly to reporters for fear of what he might say, it’s starting to sound like the media is on to the fact that the “Straight Talk Express” has gone off the rails. You gotta love this WAY hostile interview with McCain in Time Magazine.
“McCain at first seemed happy enough to do the interview. But his mood quickly soured. The McCain on display in the 24-minute interview was prickly, at times abrasive, and determined not to stray off message.
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There’s a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but also about honor. I wonder if you could define honor for us?
Read it in my books.
I’ve read your books.
No, I’m not going to define it.
But honor in politics?
I defined it in five books. Read my books.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/mccain-gets-prickly-durin_n_122087.html
Sounds like somebody’s a little testy that the Free Ride has left the station.
Did you know that former POW John “Former Pow” McCain was formerly a POW?
Crap like this mornings front page main ’story’, and threads with a tone like this one, are the main reason McClatchy publishing is sucking the bottom of the barrel revenue wise, stock value wise and increasingly readership wise.
David Lightman’s, a McClatchy writer, front page….uh, what shall I call it, certainly not reporting the news, more like a campaign managers script, was so flowery and partisan I couldn’t read it. Makes me wonder why I continue to take the paper when I get my news from more unbiased sources.
Did you know that former POW John “Former Pow” McCain was formerly a POW?
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My friend, I did hear that. About every other word, my friend.
McClatchy Publishing is failing because like its Republican owners it is out of touch with 21st century Americans.
McShame is old news that nobody will pay money to read about.
Obama will get the support of the media because he and his cause are interesting and an ongoing “feel good” American story that will sell advertising.
McShame can’t fill a few thousand seats…Obama has billions watching his adventure.
Money talks and Republican bullshit is left in the crapper.
Quit whining BrownLib.
KansasNative
Posted August 29, 2008 at 7:04 am | Permalink
your mother was hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
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I fart in your general direction!
Monkeybrain has it ass-backwards as usual.
“The Newspaper industry can’t stop the bleeding. McClatchy lost more than 38 percent of its market value even after they absorbed Knight Ridder. McClatchy sold the Star Tribune at a 58 percent loss from it’s purchase price eight years ago.
Maybe journalists will start to gain some humility along with a dose of reality and economics 101.
Where have all their union dues gone? I’m guessing that most went to multi-millionaire Democrat politicians.”
You could have seen this coming a mile away:
“McClatchy Co., which owns The News & Observer newspaper in Raleigh, said Monday it will cut 10 percent of its work force in a move to save $70 million a year as the publisher continues to struggle to attract advertising dollars.
McClatchy, which also owns The Charlotte Observer, the Kansas City Star and Miami Herald, will trim about 1,400 employees. The staff reductions are part of a plan to reduce overall expenses by $95 million to $100 million over the next four quarters.
That is hardly surprising, considering we’re in an environment where many print-based news outlets are fading, but perhaps McClatchy in particular wouldn’t be fading as fast if they would try to address at least two points.
1. Make an attempt to remove obvious and pervasive left-leaning political biases in reporting;
2. find a less obnoxious and politically-charged slogan that the nutroots favorite, “Truth to Power.”
The powers that be are not amused with the company’s business sense, and many readers are immediately turned of by McClatchy’s editorial stance. A flailing company should try to shore up a reader base, not alienate potential readers and advertisers, who will simply find a less-obviously biased competitor.
Enjoy “speaking truth to power” McClatchy, all the way to bankruptcy.”
I thought that the NYT was the MSM. Nice to know that even they recognize they are now just a leftist rag. Frank Rich… (scoffs)
It’s ironic to get this thread topic here at Obama Campaign Central- Wichita.
Monkeybrain = KansasNaive
Come ON!
The Democrat Governor says that the media coverage of Obama has been, “embarrassing” in the way the media sucks up to Obama.
Obama, on the opening night of the Dem convention, did not know where Obama was, KC or St. Louis. What would you libs do if McCain had a “memory lapse” like that?
Did the MSM tell us about Pastor Wright? No, not until they were forced to report the story, and too late to help Hillary.
The media is now avoiding the story about terrorist Bill Ayers, another Obama friend.
That is the Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania says the media coverage of Obama is embarrassing.
TAX THE EAGLE!
Newspapers are OLD technology.
Newspapers cut down trees.
Newspapers use up way too much energy, to transport dead trees, to transport paper, to transport ink, to transport the finished newspapers, then to transport those used newspapers to the dump!
Tax all Newsprint, at $1.00 per pound.
Use the revenues to finance Methane recovery, from landfills, and to subsidize “modern” media, like cell phones and computers, for the “poor”.
Newspapers are the dirty technology of the past.
Tax newspapers, and transfer that wealth to new technology —-
Whoops, I forgot, newspapers are going broke on their own!
Boxlicker = Officer Kotex
Remember Anti…Every sperm is precious!
1. Make an attempt to remove obvious and pervasive left-leaning political biases in reporting;
In other words, print only negative comments about the Democrats, never positive.
Yeah, we got it. And you’ll get yours.
Obama is obviously the media’s favorite child, but doesn’t all this negativity (and the circumstances that produce the negativity) tell you something about the condition of politics in America? And doesn’t the condition of politics tell us something about the condition of the government? The older I get and the more experiences I have with various elements of our government, the more concerned I become that America is failing as a nation. Here we are again, faced with picking the lesser of two evils.
I wonder if the Vietnamese still have the 39 propoganda films that John McCain made for them.
Might be interesting to see what he said about America then.
CAPN IS A LIAR.
When he writes:
“I have Raptor on “ignore” these days.
If he wrote something about me, I wouldn’t have seen it.”
he is LYING. There is no “ignore” feature on this blog. Once again, proof positive that capn is nothing but a liar.
He makes outrageous statements, and throws a hissy fit when confronted for facts. Backing off with “I meant to say” etc., etc. Then he comes up with this nonsense. He can dish it out..but he sure canNOT take it.
CAPN IS A LIAR.
WAR–
Welcome to the WEBlog.
Now, Shut your festering gob, you twit! Your type makes me puke! You vacuous toffee-nosed malodorous pervert!
Raptor is Officer Kotex’s buttie.
Sorry raptor but anybody dumb enough to say “There is no “ignore” feature on this blog” deserves more stupidity thrown on them.
After all, it sticks.
Capn’A, now just how gay was Rush’s sister?
It would be more interesting to read the dosiers held by the Kremlin and N.V., about mccain. He may want to attack Russia to blow up their archives!
If McShame smiles any bigger in the picture, his face will crack.
Will mccain close the deal this week? Expectations are high! Why hasn’t he sealed the deal?
Now is the above asinine or what?
I’m guessing 14 year old university student kart-wheel gay! ***jazz hands***
He does like them young, that’s why he takes sex junkets to the phillipines.
Phantom
Posted August 29, 2008 at 9:32 am | Permalink
He does like them young, that’s why he takes sex junkets to the phillipines.
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I imagine you have a timeshare with him there.
Palen!
Palin
Palin
Palin
lol
“KansasNative” raises the level of debate in this forum (it’s against “HLP,” after all) with –
“your mother was hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!”
Why else would they speak with those outwageous accents?
Here’s the RudePundit on Obama’s acceptance speech.
“8/29/2008
Obama to the GOP: “Go F*ck Yourselves”:
In February of 2007, the Rude Pundit wrote that Republicans were shitting blood over an Obama candidacy. Expect toilet sales to go through the roof this morning.
The face of Alex Castellanos, Republican stooge for Romney and CNN “analyst,” really said it all. When he appeared after Barack Obama’s DNC acceptance speech, he looked like a man who was about to vomit from being kicked so hard in the balls. “Whoever didn’t get picked for Republican VP today may be a lucky Republican,” Castellanos said, although he may as well have said, “Oh, man, my nutsack.”
Who could’ve figured out that Obama’s strategy these last couple of months was to play rope-a-dope with John McCain? Let the GOP throw all the shit they can at him, the “celebrity” nonsense, the experience canard, all the lies about Obama’s beliefs and plans: he took each blow. And then, in front of a Rolling Stones concert-sized crowd with millions of people watching at home, the man let loose.
For surely, beyond the “holy f*ck, we nominated a black man” historic part of things, the most healing part of Obama’s speech was not the muted version of his soaring rhetoric. Nor was it the infinitely ordinary and mostly safe laundry list of “shit what I wanna do.” No, for Democrats, we needed to see a candidate directly and passionately tell the GOP and John McCain, in no uncertain terms, “Go f*ck yourselves.” When he looked out onto that ocean of support and said, “Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and independents across this great land — enough!” it was like a long-delayed orgasm finally shuddering through the entire body of the Democratic Party.
And then he took Karl Rove out to the woodshed, pulled out a switch, and smacked that big ass bloody. After talking about his life, he said, “I don’t know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that celebrities lead, but this has been mine.” After talking about the stupidity of America’s strategy against terrorism, he said, “John McCain likes to say that he’ll follow bin Laden to the gates of hell — but he won’t even go to the cave where he lives.” He mocked the Atwater/Rove reduction of politics to bullshit things that don’t affect anyone’s lives: “You make a big election about small things.” And he f*ckin’ addressed McCain directly, taking on the digs at his patriotism, “So I’ve got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.” When’s the last time you heard a candidate call out another candidate like that?
The other major accomplishment of Obama’s speech was that he didn’t run away from the real role of government. In saying that Washington can be a force of positive change and progress in people’s lives, he started to set fire to crazed pagan altars to Ronald Reagan that have been erected by both parties over the last three decades. He said that the good government can do “is the only reason I am standing here tonight.” Citing the GI Bill, food stamps, and student loans, he made a case for liberalism as the transformative force it is supposed to be.
We can complain, and we should, about his failure to mention the damage to the Constitution, the Supreme Court, torture, and so many other major issues. We can say, and we should, that his promises of bipartisanship are another version of Clintonesque triangulation, progress, yes, but not progressive. Still, it’s politics, man. Hell, at this point, we’ll be lucky to get back to moderate-right in the White House. But it’s good to know that Obama understands that you get nothing done if you don’t get there.
After watching Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, and, to a large extent, Clinton act like they were supposed to turn the other cheek again and again, it was goddamn cathartic to see a Democratic candidate reach up and grab the hand that was slapping him and say, “No, not this time around, motherf*cker.” No wonder the right didn’t know how to react. It was like seeing a prison bitch grab his rapist and beat his head on the side of the bunk. Rove won’t die easily, though. When they weren’t being attacked, Republicans mocked John Kerry’s military service, medals, and wounds. Imagine what they’ll do when they’re cornered.
Gird yer loins, motherf*ckers, and break out the axes. We’ve joined the battle.”
rudepundit.blogspot.com
Barack Obama gave you Repukes a taste of your own medicine by slapping you around like a bunch of prison bitches.
Here we are again, faced with picking the lesser of two evils.
Not that I disagree, but who would you like to see as President?
I made a list, top pick to bottom of my candidates. I can happily say that the nominee chosen was not on the bottom of that list.
Evil? Nah. I reserve that place for Dick Cheney, and thank all that be, he’s outa there come January.
thats obvious. if michelle obama was hooked on prescription drugs like cindy mc cain was it would be getting 24/7 coverage by the media.
,” New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote, “whether he’s railing against a piece of pork he in fact voted for . . . or falsifying crucial details of his marital history in his memoirs, as the Los Angeles Times uncovered in court records last month.”
Anybody who quotes the NYT as proof of anything is just trying to deceive the naive. The NYT is liberal as is the Eagle and Brownlee. I can’t help but wonder how much the readership of the Eagle would increase if they had a 50% conservative slant verses the current 95% liberal bias. Everytime I pick up the Eagle I can point to one liberal slanted story after another. It is overwhelming.
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