Ridiculous: Media Continues to Push Its Own Story That It's Biased for Obama with Biased Poll

[Frank Booth]

This recent campaign by the media to spread the false story that it (the media) is biased in favor of Obama keeps hitting new lows of Orwellian disinformation.

MSNBC has a poll up with the question "Is Democrat Barack Obama unfairly receiving more coverage than Republican John McCain?" The choices are:

--Yes, the media has a liberal bias. No one should be surprised by this.
--No, media coverage is based on newsworthiness. McCain is just not as newsy as Obama.
--Sometimes, but it's a long campaign. There weren't a lot of McCain complaints during Obama's problems with Rev. Wright.

So basically, you can't respond to the poll without conceding that Obama has unfairly received more coverage. I'd tell people to DU the poll (it's at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25785762?GT1=43001), but the poll is fundamentally un-DU-able. John McCain wins no matter how you answer.

If this were an honest poll, in addition to wording the question differently, they would provide an answer along the lines of: "No. Although at times Obama may receive more coverage, much of the coverage of him has been negative, compared to the consistently positive coverage of McCain."

But that wouldn't fit with the media's campaign to portray itself as dishonest and biased in favor of the Democratic nominee. :crazy: :banghead: :crazy: :banghead: :crazy: :banghead:

Folks, remember how bad the media was in the run up to the Iraq war? We're starting to see the same thing in the run up to this presidential election. McCain's campaign and the rest of the right wing seem to be orchestrating all the stories. This isn't just a complicit media. It's a media that is actively involved in persuading Americans to vote for the inferior candidate.

[thepurpose]

1. You can't make this stuff up. To believe these people have a college education to boot.

[tridim]

2. Can you imagine the shock a recent college grad will experience..

If they go work for one of these hack outfits?

I wasn't a journalism major, but I bet the first paragraph in the textbook says something about "Integrity and accuracy" in the media.

[Frank Booth]

12. Actually, I think the people pulling the strings must be pretty smart, so I'm not surprised

they have college educations. The US media is very good at hiding its true intentions and deflecting attention with bullshit stories like this.

[Imagevision]

3. Mccain leaves much to be desired when being interviewed, he's just old school politics

[NattPang]

4. They figure if they repeat it long enough

stupid people watching MSNBC and CNN will start to believe it.

[ladym55]

15. It's not just CNN and MSNBC

It's in the print media as well. It's in the AP stories from the wire. The rah-rah McCain shows up daily in our local newspaper both in the news pages and on the editorial page (when they choose to run LTTE that focus on evil Obama who can't be trusted and McCain the war hero).

It is so very, very obvious that corporate media will pull out every stop to put the Republican puppet in the White House.

We do NOT have journalists in America. We have corporate media.

[Cha]

5. Sounds like a poll for kindergarteners which

is the calibre of the US mainstreamfookin'mediawhores.

[Johonny]

6. I don't think the media is Obama biased but the viewership is

Who wants to hear about McCain? Not many people apparently. The media has been lamenting the fact they have to overhype a McCain, but all their viewers want is Obama.

[Whisp]

7. this is a setup so they can redeem themselves

from all this 'positive' Obama coverage and
rake him over the coals til November for every god danged word obama says and then call themselves fair and unbiased and having learned from their idiot polls that they have to get their act together and enough of this nice guy stuff.

betcha anything. twisted fucks.

[Uncle Joe]

8. The corporate media is so unpopular, they know it and they're running against them selves.

:rofl:

Of course it's just more of their Orwellian corporate media strategy to brain wash the American People.

They cover McBush with kid gloves while trashing Obama and then complain about them selves because that isn't working.

If the corporate media seriously want to survive, they desperately need an over haul of their journalistic ethics, drop the vast amount of editorial shit and just report the real news; in depth, leave the National Enquirer crap to the National Enquirer while giving the American People enough credit to distinguish what's best for themseves for a change.

[judasdisney]

11. I'm sure there are no organized class interests involved

[Diane R]

9. And Lou Dobb's poll was virtually identical. I'm sure you're shocked.

[jarnocan]

10. Looks like it is getting broadcasted on far-right sites/freeped

"Is Democrat Barack Obama unfairly receiving more coverage than Republican John McCain? * 77631 responses

Yes, the media has a liberal bias. No one should be surprised by this.
79%

No, media coverage is based on newsworthiness. McCain is just not as newsy as Obama.
15%

Sometimes, but it's a long campaign. There weren't a lot of McCain complaints during Obama's problems with Rev. Wright.
6.3%

It is just some more spin, the far right wants to whine enough so they will get better treatment."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25785762?GT1=43001

[True_Blue]

13. The only reason they all followed him to Iraq

So they can catch him if he screws up and then they can play it 24/7.

[Frank Booth]

14. Yep. Meanwhile, McCain's talking about the Iraq-Pakistan border and gets nothing

but pats on the back from the mainstream/right wing media.