How many peoples opinion on DU has been changed by the media coverage?

[sidwill]

I know mine hasn't.

I do know that if I knew nothing about Obama I would be voting HRC without a second thought.

So I propose that the media's coverage of Obama has not any changed minds, but simply made people aware that there was actually another choice out there.

So I ask again to think, how many of us DUers have had our mind changed by the media coverage?

[pdxmom]

1. The media coverage makes me question everything, so I've done

a lot of detailed research based on their coverage. So in that way, they have had an influence.

[papau]

2. Yes - the corporate media pushing Obama so hard has made me want Hillary - Corps must be stopped -

and Obama is obviously seen as someone that they need not fear.

[RoadRage]

8. Yeah.. the guy who doesn't take a dime from corporate lobbiest MUST be the one that they are pushing

and the other candidate who's pockets they are trying to line is really NOT the one they want to win.

Do people even think before they post anymore? SERIOUSLY??

[papau]

13. He takes money from all the corporate lobbyist families - he is a con job

[Occam Bandage]

14. You realize that Clinton takes more corporate money than Obama does, right?

[UALRBSofL]

3. Watching the media

I too question everything that is said. You have to fact check everything. You have to not get drawn into soap operas. Just my opinion.

[sidwill]

4. But none of you

simply changed from Hillary to barack or vice-versa cause Chris Mathews told you so right?

[MoonRiver]

5. It's extreme and unfair bias pushed me over to Clinton.

Obama's meanness and conservative policies also totally turned me off to him.

[CoffeeCat]

6. I don't trust the media...

Media members aren't even doing their jobs. No longer do we have journalists.
We have botoxed talking heads who kow tow to the flavor of the day.

When Hillary is wining, they kiss her ass. When Obama is winning they kiss his ass.

It's their job to gain access. They do this by currying favor with those who they
believe will be in power, and best help them leverage their careers.

They truly are prostitutes.

I make my decisions based on thorough research. I labored over my decision, and it happened
after thoroughly analyzing each candidates' plans.

[NashVegas]

7. Mine Has

The corporate media fawning over Barack Obama has pushed me to think Hillary might not be so bad, after all.

[Big Blue Marble]

9. Not me.

We had to listen to the media tell us for two years that Hillary Clinton was our candidate.

Now in the last four weeks, people around the country have discovered that they have an alternative
to the media-chosen Clinton, and suddenly his surge is being blamed on the media?

Of course, the media is going to cover this phenomenal event. His is an historic campaign.

The more it is in the media;the more people will notice. The more people notice; the more they like him.

The reason Obama is surging is Obama. Period.

[Lucinda]

10. Ask John Edwards how the media has effected things this time around.

[UALRBSofL]

11. Edwards was thrown under the bus for a 2 candidate race

We all know this is what happened.

[TriMetFan]

17. How true.

[TriMetFan]

12. I was for Obama....

until he start with his bull shit. 1. Like talking down to Hillary, like she was a second class citizen. 2. Like him using his race. 3. McClurkin and Caldwell. 4. Resco.

Oh by the way I was very crazy about Obama that I had sent Money to him. He remind me of a JFK/MLK type. I really thought our Great Hope was finally here. But again because of the stuff he has done I just can't vote for him.

[nancyr]

15. I make up my own mind.

The media doesn't do my thinking for me.

[sidwill]

16. Ok good, it's settled, if anything the media has either

A. Not changed people's minds.

B. Pushed them in the opposite direction.


Now that thats settled, can we stop blaming the boogeyman MSM for Obama's bump.