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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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 Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:47 am Post subject: Study: Networks tougher on Obama |
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0708/Study_Networks_tougher_on_Obama.html
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What liberal media? Despite Obama overload on the broadcast networks, with anchors heading overseas to join the media circus, the LA Times finds that the Illinois Senator's actually been getting tougher treatment on air.
The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.
You read it right: tougher on the Democrat.
During the evening news, the majority of statements from reporters and anchors on all three networks are neutral, the center found. And when network news people ventured opinions in recent weeks, 28% of the statements were positive for Obama and 72% negative.
Network reporting also tilted against McCain, but far less dramatically, with 43% of the statements positive and 57% negative, according to the Washington-based media center.
Robert Lichter, the center's director and onetime Fox News contributor -- yes, he's been praised by O'Reilly before -- told the paper that "this information should blow away this silly assumption that more coverage is always better coverage." |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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The other thing I notice is that Obama presents ideas and has natural leader-type abilities.
Anyone who 'leads' is always open to criticism.
This is a strong contrast to McCain who isn't showing any leadership skills whatsoever. Maybe McCain should think about being a political commentator instead if he wants to sit out that much on the sidelines. Everytime I heard McCain speak, he is whining or complaining about some nitpicky thing that Obama said or did. Part of McCain's problem is he is afraid to speak at all, because he doesn't want to offend centrists or conservatives. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| The coverage of McCain, when he gets it, seems pleasantly patronizing. McCain misspeaks and the response is along the lines of "Oh, look... how cute." Obama says anything and it is analyzed to death. If I was McCain I'd be annoyed by the way I was treated in the press. If I was McCain's campaign manager I'd be thinking the stars that no one is scrutinizing my candidate too hard. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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This is a good case in point. McCain just met with the Dalai Lama on Friday:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/politics/main4296335.shtml
Imagine the negative news coverage if Obama had just went out to do photo ops with the Dalai Lama.
This is kinda funny though from McCain's visit:
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| The Dalai Lama praised McCain for his concern, but he emphasized he wasn't endorsing McCain's presidential bid. |
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RoyBatty
Joined: 19 Jun 2008
Location: NYC
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| Cool avatar Tiger Beer. Ever since Sopranos ended I feel like a little part of my life is missing. What an amazing show... |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:55 am Post subject: |
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Obama's gotten more negative coverage because:
a) he's the frontrunner
b) his campaign is painstakingly choreographed and air-tight, but McCain's likes the town-hall free-style and his campaign leaks just enough to please the press
c) he's had not been doing well up to the time the study was published
Meanwhile, Obama's had significantly more of his pictures published in the WaPo, for example.
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| To look at the phenom factor, du Cille went to the Merlin database to see how many pictures have been run of Obama since he first appeared in Post pages in 2003. That would be 1,109. McCain's pictures go back to the early days of the database, 1995, with 1,032 published. Obama is still ahead. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
...Obama presents ideas and has natural leader-type abilities.
Anyone who 'leads' is always open to criticism.
This is a strong contrast to McCain who isn't showing any leadership skills whatsoever...Everytime I heard McCain speak, he is whining or complaining about some nitpicky thing that Obama said or did. |
This is exactly right, on multiple fronts. I still support McCain, for political reasons. But you are right as far as Obama certainly looking very much like a natural leader while McCain, unfortunately, is revealing himself, on this campaign, as little more than Obama's critic. And it is without a doubt an annoying, petty thing for him to do. McCain disappoints me when he does this.
On the other hand, I disagree that "the networks," "the media," what-have-you, treat Obama more harshly than any other candidate. Many press outlets seem to love Obama. |
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contrarian
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Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| If Obama lectured me with that darn finger in my face, I'd be tempted to break it. |
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