WTF? AP working OT for McCain Campaign!

[FrenchieCat]

AP hard at work in overtime and overdrive now! :wow:

Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign

NEW YORK – John McCain supporters who believe they haven't gotten a fair shake from the media during the Republican's candidacy against Barack Obama have a new study to point to.

Comments made by sources, voters, reporters and anchors that aired on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts over the past two months reflected positively on Obama in 65 percent of cases, compared to 31 percent of cases with regards to McCain, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs.

ABC's "World News" had more balance than NBC's "Nightly News" or the "CBS Evening News," the group said.

Meanwhile, the first half of Fox News Channel's "Special Report" with Brit Hume showed more balance than any of the network broadcasters, although it was dominated by negative evaluations of both campaigns. The center didn't evaluate programs on CNN or MSNBC.

"For whatever reason, the media are portraying Barack Obama as a better choice for president than John McCain," said Robert Lichter, a George Mason University professor and head of the center. "If you watch the evening news, you'd think you should vote for Obama."
more....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081101/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_media

[villager]

1. Study shows press sporadically takes collective heads out of asses, gets up off knees

Rightwing is outraged!

[raysr]

4. They're always outraged,

even when they win.

[Democat]

2. McCain was running negative ads - shouldn't he have more negative coverage?

Isn't that logical?

If one candidate comes out and says "Obama is a filthy black communist" and the other says "I want to improve the lives of all Americans" then how are both of those comments going to get the same coverage?

This poll is useless without context.

McCain created the negative coverage and now he's complaining about it?

[LynnTheDem]

3. Wanna address this ``problem`` AND hear crickets chirping from the rightwingnuttery...

BRING BACK THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.


















*chirp*

[PresidentObama]

5. So what? The media is in the tank for Obama. They were in the tank for Bush in 04'

About time they supported a Democratic candidate.

[Sidney J Mussburger]

9. The thing is, it's not True

McCain has run his whole campaign, with exception of mentions of the Hanoi Hotel, completely negative against Obama. The media reports what they see. If anything, they're trying to make a horse race out of the blowout that's about to occur on Tuesday.

[PresidentObama]

12. No matter what the media says to try and drive up ratings, this thing isn't close. We're crushing JM

We only have to hold the momentum for a couple of days, and we'll kick old Johnny boys ass.

[Sidney J Mussburger]

17. I totally agree

Momentum has been on our side for months now. Only in this last two days did I have any butterfly's over this deal. I put a couple beers down and watched Bill Maher and all is well. Prediction... Bears 36 - Lions 10. Obama 406 McCain 132

[BrklynLiberal]

6. "For whatever reason, the media are portraying Barack Obama as a better choice for president than

John McCain,"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



Gee. Maybe because he IS a better choice for president?????????????
So if the facts are presented, and the facts appear to show Obama is better...that must meant he facts are biased.

[abumbyanyothername]

7. "For whatever reason,

the media are portraying Barack Obama as a better choice for president than John McCain . . . ."

Well lets see.

Suppose I am reporting every night on a mag-lev high speed train from Japan. And at the same time, I am reporting every night on a 19th Century, coal fired steam locomotive.

Or suppose I am reporting on one person who lays out in positive fashion a plan for the future. And at the same time I am reporting on another person who simply tosses out fabricated attacks and innuendo.

Or suppose one company is giving me press releases and allowing me unlimited access and an opportunity to ask any questions that I want to. And another company refuses to cooperate in any way, and in fact, attacks me as the problem.

Surely one is going to look like a better choice.

[high density]

14. great analogies

One only has to look at the last month of campaigning to note the difference in styles.

Obama: "With your support we can make this country a better place."
McCain: "Obama is a socialist that pals around with terrorists. Joe the Plumber."

[firedupdem]

8. Well......our vp candidate isn't an idiot, Barack isn't an idiot, we

don't run around with joe the plumber, we don't have skinheads at our rallies....I guess anybody watching the news would want to vote for Obama!

[FVZA_Colonel]

10. Maybe the media has been more "favorable" because McCain's campaign is objectively worse.

[high density]

11. Yet another flawed study on "negativity"

John McCain has been NOTHING but negative and that is going to breed negative reporting. The same thing happened to Hillary Clinton. When the campaign is nothing but a series of gaffes and screw-ups, the negative coverage is going to be higher due to the news that's being generated by the campaign. The expectation for some sort of "balance" in this coverage is biased in itself.

[JJ]

13. Reality is a bias

to quote General Clark's son

[NotThisTime]

15. You know, 65% of Americans think Obama's campaign has been more positive, maybe that has something

to do with media perception? Seems a likely cause and effect

[progressivebydesign]

16. WTF is wrong with media now? If someone's campaign is shit -- then it should be reported that way.

I mean.. let's see.. if McCain was lying (he is) and Palin is lying (she is), and they have a piss-poor campaign (which they do), and they make all kinds of filthy attacks on a sitting US Senator (which they have) and if republicans are leaving them in droves (which they ARE), then HOW THE FUCK CAN THEY GET EQUALLY POSITIVE PRESS???????

Are the journalists just completely stupid now??? It's like covering an outbreak of food poisoning and the opening of a fine restaurant in the same week. Just because they both involve food, doesn't mean that you have to write positively about food poisoning or badly about the restaurant. Does that make sense?

Sometimes campaigns just SUCK and the people in them are nasty and vindictive and you CAN'T write anything NICe about them.

Sheesh.

[d_b]

18. lol

please. let's do 2004 study.

[lurky]

19. The truth about Robert Lichter:

He is a Republican operative, consultant to Fox News, member of the American Enterprise Institute, and he has been funded by Richard Mellon Scaife and other RW moneybags to create the impression that there is a left-wing media conspiracy. Read what FAIR has to say about him:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2515

The fact that AP is reporting this "study" as if it is a legitimate piece of scholarship is sad, but not surprising. Thank you Rob Fournier!

[FrenchieCat]

20. He is a fucking piece of work, this Rob Fournier.

That man must hate this country with a passion.

[lurky]

21. Truly. And he has so discredited the AP.

It was a respected source of independent journalism before he and his cronies got their hands on it. Now it's a joke.