Push Us Around at Your Peril

[journalist3072]

Push Us Around at Your Peril

Media Pressure: Is the press really ganging up on her?
By Deidre Depke | NEWSWEEK
Mar 17, 2008 Issue

Ask any woman over 35, Clinton supporter or not: the media hate Hillary. After all, reliable voices of the left—Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd—have launched scathing critiques of her campaign, her ethics or her motives. Samantha Power, a Time contributing editor and hero of the human-rights crowd, was forced to resign from the Obama campaign last week after calling Clinton a "monster." Rolling Stone endorsed the Illinois senator with an almost beatific painting on its cover. And then there's Chris Matthews. If just half the people who have bashed Matthews for anti-Clinton rhetoric had ever actually tuned in to his program, he'd have ratings to reckon with.

Even to some conservatives, the prejudice is unmistakable. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly charges that a biased media are trying to engineer the election in Obama's favor. According to the nonpartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs, O'Reilly might actually be right: from December to mid-February, 83 percent of network-news coverage of Obama was positive. For Clinton, the number was 53 percent. After Super Tuesday, the study says, even as Clinton supporters demanded more-balanced coverage, Obama's proportion of good press dropped only to 67 percent, while Clinton's remained at about 50 percent.

Entire article at: http://www.newsweek.com/id/120068/page/1

[anonymous171]

1. What about Hillary's "strong outcome" in WY?

[OzarkDem]

11. Obama's odds of carrying it in the GE?

How many electoral votes do they have?

Come on, tell us how that Wyoming victory is going to defeat McCain in November. :rofl:

[anonymous171]

13. How is Hillary going to carry Texas in the GE?

Don't laugh at small state democrats. It's not nice.

[Splinter Cell]

2. Here we go again

I'm sick of hearing about the media bias against Clinton. The media is the ONLY THING that has kept her in this race as long as this. Any other candidate would have been pushed by the wayside, yet the press continues to give her spotlight.

The Clinton campaign has got to be the biggest crybaby outfit in the history of the democratic party.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Funny, my impression has always been

that the MSM felt Clinton was the heir apparent. They've always given her plenty of air time, and have never dismissed her ideas or wasted debate time asking if she'd seen a UFO.

[pbca]

4. A couple of things

1) I know many women over 35 who think the media has been more than fair with Hillary, Personally I know Zero women who support her.

2) I don't really believe you're a journalist

3) Congrats! You've just joined the ranks of the 'Ignore' list.

[ellacott]

15. I'm a woman over 35 and I don't feel there's a bias

If her campaign wouldn't do such stupid things they wouldn't report it.

At the beginning she was considered the front runner. They talked about all the money she raised; how her campaign was managed so well; how she never made a mistake and how good she was at debates. The narrative on Obama was that he didn't do well in debates; has no experience and that he stutters when he speaks.

[berni_mccoy]

5. Bullhockey. If Obama was losing as bad as Hillary, they would have called the election by now.

[theredpen]

6. The Rezko smear

Fans of either Bill or Hillary Clinton (or both) are painfully familiar with the saga of a real-estate transaction in which our people did nothing wrong, but about which they are endlessly harassed and smeared with guilt-by-associated.

Google for how many "news" reports mention the Rexko deal (and for a double-dose of Obama slime, search to see how many GD:P posts mention Rezko, too).

Obama is NOT getting a free ride.

[OzarkDem]

12. The media hasn't taken the gloves off yet

not by a long shot. No doubt they're hoping to hold off in case Obama wins the nomination, then hope to unload on him in the GE.

[theredpen]

17. That's why I'm glad Hillary is giving it everything she's got -- including her McCain endorsement

When Obama wins the nomination, he'll have been fully vetted and the easy "low blows" will have been parried during the primary.

I'm sure McCain was planning on a version of the "3am call" ad, but Clinton beat him to it, and it bounced off. Now McCain's got nothing and the media will yawn at the "experience" tactic. They'll say, "McCain is running on his experience, but that didn't work for Clinton."

I hope she keeps it coming.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

7. Female over 35 here, turned the TV off because I believed it was

too biased toward Hillary.

[mculator]

8. Clinton/Obama or else.

[anonymous171]

10. Obama/Clinton would have to be the ticket.

Obama has a message to run on, Clinton does not.

[mculator]

20. You mean massage?

Of your emotions.

[ctaylors6]

9. beyond scary thought in any context: "O'Reilly might actually be right"

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

14. I asked my wife. She's only 33 but she think the "media hates Hillary" line is bullshit

I guess she'll finally see the light in 2 more years :eyes:

Do these people ever stop to think that the reason Hillary gets bashed so much is that she has done a lot more that is bash-worthy?

[John Q. Citizen]

16. Who got the most face time in the debates? It was Hill. Far and away.

[Deja Q]

18. CBS is part of the media - they certainly don't hate her.

Still, sometimes those generalizations and judgments make sense when there's far more showing things one way than the alternatives... maybe she is hated.

Most politicians tend not to get a free ride in the first place.

BTW: Why is O'Reilly trying to set up Obama when Coulter and Limbaugh are trying to set up Clinton? Don't they all prefer McCain, who was naughty toward McAbel?

[canadian_is_cold]

19. I am a woman over 35, I have always thought the media was completely PRO-Clinton

[Tribetime]

21. you reap what you sow

although dishing it out and them playing the victim does get votes

[Mooney]

22. She's a politician, and politicians sometimes get savaged by the press.

Suck it up.

[Toallwhoshallsee]

23. It Might just be the time....

The 2008 Democratic National Convention will be held from August 25 to August 28 in Denver, Colorado. The convention, sponsored by the United States Democratic Party, will nominate a candidate for the presidency.

It has been a long time since we settled the nomination, and "defined" our party at the National Convention....It happens from time too time, and this maybe the "Mother Of All Conventions". We will all have to wait and see..But it's not a bad thing every now and again.